Keep clones small in bubble cloner while main plant waits for harvest.

Hello fellow hydro growers.

So, I have been growing for just under a year and a half now, and I am still trying to teach my self the best methods for cloning and propagation.

So, here is how I grow.

1. take clones from the main plant I intend to flower.
2. put main plant into flower
3. wait for roots on clones.

after this point once the clones develop their roots, how can I keep the clones from growing soo much while I wait to harvest my main plant.

I find that the clones get too big by the time I have harvested my main plant. It makes it difficult to transplant in to the main plant area for flowering.

Is there a way to root the clones, but then put it in stasis until I am ready to transplant it to my main DWC setup ?

This is a 1 plant at a time grow just to clear that up now, and its going from bubble cloner to dwc bucket.

btw, I was baked at the time of this posting, so if anything doesn't make sense or needs more explanation, please let me know.

I do four in flower and four in veg. When the flowers finish I I cut clones and move the girls to the flower from the veg. That way i stay legal and having fun. i run two tents and I do five gallon bucket dwc.