Cloning while in Flower

I have a few questions for you guys...I just started flowering my babies and I NEED clones.....I was wondering if it could be acceptble to take a clone off a early flowering female (flowering 2 weeks) and just put the clone on 24 hour and revert it back to veg...Would their be any problem making this clone a mother? I have some amazing plants right now (NLxSkunk#1, Hindu Kush, G13xBudda) and I really don't want to lose these guys!

Yes, but a cutting taken while the stock plant is flowering will need to be forced to revert back to a vegetative state under 24 hour light. This causes additional stress, slowing growth and development. Rooting may take up to three times longer when the cuttings are taken during the flowering cycle. The cutting may not have enough stored nutrients or carbohydrates to survive. If you must do this then take the cutting when the mother plant is only a week or two into flowering.

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The above "flowering plant" is to be taken verbatim.
However, the above should not to be confused with a sexy mom who has been showing her primordia aka pre flowers while vegging, and has been kept in a vegetative state of growth for several months or years. These old mature primordia displaying moms clone just as well as a premature seedling.

ShootToMaim said:

I have a few questions for you guys...I just started flowering my babies and I NEED clones.....I was wondering if it could be acceptble to take a clone off a early flowering female (flowering 2 weeks) and just put the clone on 24 hour and revert it back to veg...Would their be any problem making this clone a mother? I have some amazing plants right now (NLxSkunk#1, Hindu Kush, G13xBudda) and I really don't want to lose these guys!

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It's not a good idea to take cuttings from flowering plants for two reasons -

1) It stresses the flowering plant and can cause it to hermie.

2) Forcing the cutting back into vegetative growth can stress it and diminish it's genetic integrity causing possible abnormal growth, turning it into a hermie or reversing it's sex altogether. Plants flowered and forced back into vegetative growth can also yield less and produce less potent buds.

Next time take your cuttings in vegetative growth.

in 25 years, i have never seen a plant herm during flowering strictly from taking a couple of cuttings. i routinely trim lower 1/3rd "sucker" growth off during flowering, and have yet to ever have a flowering plant "stress" nor herm on me, and ive probably grown 50000 plants.

the only thing youll see is that your clone will take longer to root.

i have taken clones from flowering plants upto the first 21 days with no probs at all, thay have rooted in 2 weeks

its fine.. just may need to veg a lil longer to get
the flowering hormones out..

Old man he doesn't mean the "mother" will hermie he means the clones may due to the stress. And it does happen. Early flower is fine but not much later than a week you will spend more time trying to bring back a plant into veg with to many risks. Just cut loses in this situation and go again.

old thread but i need i to throw my 2 cents in lol i have to disagree i have found myself after trying many different times of cloning at varying stages of growth and i take all my clones in flower with tiny buds on them now each calyx on the bud grows into a branch my clones end up with 8-15 main colas with no no need to lst or any of that now mind you sometimes they grow a little different that what your used to with a clone taken in veg but ive nvr ever had any lack of quality or herming. oh also the taking longer to root is bs to ive found sometimes its actually faster if the clone has small buds on it maybe because of the lack of nitrogen idk

NoobTube8 said:

Old man he doesn't mean the "mother" will hermie he means the clones may due to the stress. And it does happen. Early flower is fine but not much later than a week you will spend more time trying to bring back a plant into veg with to many risks. Just cut loses in this situation and go again.

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all clones are stressed from the time they are cut...how many of your clones have reverted sex on you? you are going to get an copy of the plant not some maybe plant that could be male or female that would defeat the whole purpose of cloning. some people actually clone while the plant is actually flowering and it produces a greater yield because of the stretch from the plant. theres a thread around here somewhere about that.

hmmm