Does cloning impact your plant?

My seedlings are on their second set of leaves, I think they're about 10 days old. My first question is was Mid-April a good time to starting growing outdoors in Los Angeles, meaning that my plants will grow a decent size?

Also, will cloning them as soon as I can affect the plant (e.g. is it worth cloning your plants to give some them to someone else) and will those clones have enough time to grow a decent amount after I clone them?

Basically the tricky part for me is knowing if plants have enough time to flower when you clone an outdoor plant one in this month..to me it seems like the most practical way to clone is an indoor plant that's in in flower. Can you clone a plant already showing sex?

I've cloned a clone after about 2-3 weeks. I accidentally broke one of two main stems I had after topping while trying to bend it for super cropping. The plant is perfectly fine. I'm sure if you allow it some bottom growth get about 3 nodes and use it for a clone it will be fine. If you're cloning for a buddy then just wait so it's a better, more developed clone. You can clone a plant in veg but you shouldn't clone it after about 3 weeks of flowering because it's a bit rough on the clone to revert back to vegetative growth.