Apostatize
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I was messing around one day, cutting a few clones of strains I was considering discontinuing (they didn't make my final list -- I obtained better genetics after making my final selections). Anyway, one clone shaped as ring survived and it's starting to look pretty cool, but my question's about a clone I'd cut from a plant ~1-2 weeks into flower. It barely had any bud growth yet and I was having second thoughts about discontinuing the gene line. The flower-time clone sticks out from my other clones cut at the so-called correct time. If anyone's ever cloned a flowering plant, what happens? Will the mature flower-time (feminized) clone flower? Will it flower faster? Will the yield be positively or negatively affected? Finally, assuming you only wanted to grow strains with a short flowering time (~8 weeks), could cloning a strain that has a longer flowering time (e.g., 10-13 weeks) trim off 1-2 weeks from its flowering time; and if it were an 8-week flowering plant, could you shave off a few days or possibly a week this way? Just curious. Thinking of adding CO2 and increasing airflow to expedite growth, but cloning later might also help -- and it's a cheap complement.