Time to veg clones vs seedplants

[ElfstoneStrider]

How long do you veg clones, once rooting has taken place, compared to their respective seedplants?

Let say you grow Strain A. From seed, you veg 30 days in order to achieve your desired finishing size.

What's the rule of thumb on how long you should veg clones of said plant, once rooted, in order to achieve the same final size at harvest?

Lets hear from ya!

 

[señorsloth]

well after a month a seed plant will be like 6-8 inches tall and maybe 6-8 nodes, but frankly it's been forever since I've grown a plant from seed so my memory would be hazy...honestly though, you could take a clone that's already that size when it's rooted it you wanted to. you would probably have to use that one weird air cloning method...though I've never seen that as very practical...my point is i guess that a small clone would take about a week tops to out grow a month old seed, a bigger clone could overtake it in a couple of days...

remember, sprouts grow very slowly compared to clones, clones grow at the rate of a fully mature plant...check out my grow in my signature, i plant clones and throw them right into flowering the day they root, within a week and a half they are a foot tall...yet a sprout that cracked the surface the same day that clone rooted would only be working on it's second set of real leafs while the clones are 12 inches tall and 8-10 sets of leaves created in that same time...

 

[ElfstoneStrider]

i plant clones and throw them right into flowering the day they root

I tried that once, as a little experiment. I put a very small Black Widow (Mr Nice) clone straight to flower in a plastic food container.

Here is the final size after it stopped growing/stretching:

 

[Floridian]

Seedplants should be grown until sexual maturity,get a good magnifying glass you'll be surprised how well you sex them when matured.The time to veg clones is totally up to the person growing them,there are no rules for cuts

 

[DevilWeedSeeds]

The big advantage that clones have over seeds is that you already know the sex of the plants (Unless you start a fem seed). Also growers can clones plants they like. No fun vegging a male from seed... well unless someone enjoys smoking males of course.

 

[OrganicOzarks]

How long you veg anything is going to be dependent on what you want the outcome to be.

Do you want a single monster tree grown by itself under a 1000watter?

Or do you want 100 mini trees grown under 2 1000watters?

It all just depends.

Also every plant grows at it's own respective rate. I have a plant that can veg for 3 weeks, and I flower it to get great results. I have another plant that i have to veg for 2+months to get great results.

There are so many variables, and I think your question is to broad.

 

[supermanlives]

seedplants get alot more veg time than clones in my garden

 

[s00thsayer]

Under my 250 watt mh it takes about 45 days for a hybrid to go from seed to 12 inches tall, clones from the same plant take around 60 days to go from cutting to 12 inches. So clones take about 2 weeks longer for me.

 

[Snow1]

I can honestly say that I just veg'd a plant for almost 3 months one didn't get too much of a stretch but two are over 5 feet in flower right now. If your indoors I would guess a good starting point would be 1-5-2 feet tall depending on your grow space I am using a 4x4 tent and have three plants running right now.

 

[Snow1]

Sorry I rambled but the ball park time frame I would veg through from seed is 45-60 days.

 

[Floridian]

Damn soothsayer your clones must start out at 1/4 inch tall lol.If it takes 10 days for the cutting to root,it takes another 50 days to become a 12 inch plant?

 

[Nada]

preferably would veg 3-4 weeks then flip

 

[medmaker420]

seeded plants grow slower than clones so it would be less veg time needed to get the same or BETTER results ( in the same time frame ) than its seed grown counterpart.

The seeded plants are brand new babies and the clones are already aged plants