you can clone automatic plants but you will accomplish nothing by doing so except a drastically reduced yield, as the automatic plant flowers due to age, and the clone will be the same age as the mother and will die at the same time. The thing to do would be to hermie one of the females with colloidal silver spray and pollinate the other females with the pollen to produce feminized seed for your next grow. Automatics are great, and will revolutionize the way weed is grown in the future. I recommend growing male and female autos together to produce a huge crop of seed, then go scatter a few hundred of the seed into the wilderness areas around you, to overgrow the government. Once established, it will be next to impossible to eradicate it. Autos can grow several seed bearing crops per year in most areas.