How do u pick the right mother clone for future gens. while in veg

Labrador weed

Labrador weed

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I am planning on taking a few clones To use for the next go around, I don’t have space for vegging plants and flowering them, only for a few very small ones or one medium size plant.

How would you go about picking the best plant while in veg since I won’t be able to take the clone while flowering (and I don’t want to do monster cropping).

Thanks for all help

Also I’ve run into some people that think my name is stupid and I’m wondering if anybody knows what my name comes from
 
Flowki

Flowki

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It's almost impossible, some plants may do better in veg for many different reasons, such as location to light/intake or heat source. That does not mean they are the best plant.

Then the issue is what do you define as the best plant. Some crosses will lean setiva, some lean more indica but it isn't always obvious. Maybe you prefere one or the other for height reasons. But that doesn't tell you if one will finish sooner, one will have bigger buds or one smaller rock solid buds (less prone to rot), one will have more frost, different or stronger smell etc. You can get a lot of variance with diff seeds of the same strain is the point, you will need 2 maybe even 3 generations to narrow down to what you define as the best.

That's to my knowledge, hope it's wrong for you ;p.
 
diggs99

diggs99

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If I'm not mistaken some guys like @Renfro are taking clones as late as 3-4th week of flower?

May give you a better idea how how the plant looks and grows
 
Renfro

Renfro

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diggs99 said:
If I'm not mistaken some guys like @Renfro are taking clones as late as 3-4th week of flower?

May give you a better idea how how the plant looks and grows
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Usually take my cuts 20 days into flower. That said my star dawg strain didn't like monster cropping.

Bundykid said:
If you can take 2 clones from each plant, name them and see how the plants go in flower then keep the clones you like.
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This is the most foolproof way to select phenotypes because you never know until they are finished. Sometimes a plant comes on strong at the end and becomes the obvious winner.
 
Dr. Who

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Observe & Report said:
Flowki is right, it's impossible. Note that it doesn't stop reg breeders from choosing a male this way.
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Scratch and sniff technique....A few other ways to predetermine your choice. For breeders and Male breeders.....

Biggest thing for me?
I don't pick till they are being lollypopped for blooming. I use the pruned branching to take my clones from...

Basically, Flowki is right.
 
Labrador weed

Labrador weed

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Flowki said:
It's almost impossible, some plants may do better in veg for many different reasons, such as location to light/intake or heat source. That does not mean they are the best plant.

Then the issue is what do you define as the best plant. Some crosses will lean setiva, some lean more indica but it isn't always obvious. Maybe you prefere one or the other for height reasons. But that doesn't tell you if one will finish sooner, one will have bigger buds or one smaller rock solid buds (less prone to rot), one will have more frost, different or stronger smell etc. You can get a lot of variance with diff seeds of the same strain is the point, you will need 2 maybe even 3 generations to narrow down to what you define as the best.

That's to my knowledge, hope it's wrong for you ;p.
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Makes since to me.
Think what I’ll do is I will take a clone from each one and then when They get too big I’ll just take a clone from those so I can keep them small.
thanks for the information
 
Labrador weed

Labrador weed

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Renfro said:
Usually take my cuts 20 days into flower. That said my star dawg strain didn't like monster cropping.



This is the most foolproof way to select phenotypes because you never know until they are finished. Sometimes a plant comes on strong at the end and becomes the obvious winner.
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Yeah I tried monster cropping my last go around it with some GSC. And it took forever to convert them back and I just couldn’t deal with it anymore (could’ve been something I was doing for all I know)
 
Labrador weed

Labrador weed

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Dr. Who said:
Scratch and sniff technique....A few other ways to predetermine your choice. For breeders and Male breeders.....

Biggest thing for me?
I don't pick till they are being lollypopped for blooming. I use the pruned branching to take my clones from...

Basically, Flowki is right.
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This is actually what I had in mind and I was hoping somebody would mention.
Obviously this is not the best way to pick a winner but I only have Five to pick from and then three others of a different strain.

Can you tell me some other techniques or point me in a direction of somewhere I can learn, thanks
 
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