New Grower, need advice

hell yeah I'm addicted now, I can't wait to flower some clones.

So should I keep this plant as the mother? or clip the top and replant it, then flower the big one? If I keep this as the mother, should I just trim the bottom ones as they fill out and work my way up? or should I go whole hog and get as many clones from it as I can?

guess I am just full of questions, lol.

pics coming soon (I know I said that last time, but got to wait for access to the camera).

Me I would take some clippings from her now, wait until the roots take and the clones start growing (maybe two - three weeks) then flower that bitch, get a mother or two off the clones.

As far as your mother is concerned I would take clippings from wherever she needs it, for instance if you want her to stay short because of space you would take clippings from the top, vise versa take side branches to control width/bushiness.

congrats on your girl. i call them my roomates. i have 6 sluts that live in the room next door. but they are busy 12 hours a day and cant be disturbed the other 12 hours. they can be very tempermental lol.

plants grown from seed will be 25% stronger than clones and will in general yeild more. what i would do if i were you, which im not. is take a few clones and pick the best one as your mother and flower your female u have growing now. in a month or so halfway through flowering ur first plant, your mother clone should be ready to clone again, so while the last month of your flowering is going on, you will have clones vegging ready to be flowered right after she gets done.

remember always take clones from the bottom, they are the freshest hormones. clones from the top could take over twice as long to root than the lower ones.

seems like your on your way to a good setup of perpetual harvest. hope my advice helps.

p.s. i like how u said whole hog it, im from the south so i know what you mean lol

remember always take clones from the bottom

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Say you are taking lots of clippings, you always take clones from the bottom and work your way up to what? nothing? it makes more sense to me to spread out where you take your clippings.

I took my first clippings from the bottom only because I wanted watering room and for the bottom branches to receive more air, however if she starts to get too tall, I'm going to take clippings from the top, then on to the sides.

thanks, the info did help, I didn't realize I could make a mother from a clone. Glad to hear from some people in the know, I'll prolly clip the top and a few lower ones and bud her. After she goes into budding, will she still grow taller during the flowering stage? I heard the plant grows 2x-3x it's starting height when alls said and done.

true. im just going by what mr Jorge Cervantes says in the grow bible. He says that clones from the bottom always root faster. bottom clones take 4-7 days to root. and top clones and take up to 28 days to root. ive read that thing front to back and back to front, and there is still infinite more knowledge to learn. im off to bed, peace humboldt

JuggaloWicket said:

thanks, the info did help, I didn't realize I could make a mother from a clone. Glad to hear from some people in the know, I'll prolly clip the top and a few lower ones and bud her. After she goes into budding, will she still grow taller during the flowering stage? I heard the plant grows 2x-3x it's starting height when alls said and done.

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yeah they do double in size at least during flowering. theortically you can clone infintely. since its the same genetics as that plant it will grow into just as good of a mother. if you kept your plant now for a mother, you will still be losing at 25% strength and yeild with the clones u would flower. makes sense to me to flower the seed plant u have now and just clone her and make a mother out of the clone. if not your going to have to wait 3 months for bud. instead of 2 months and having clones ready to flower when shes done. im glad i can help man. im a newbie too but i have done my homework. ive been studying and reading how to grow for probly 5 years now. i just now have the opportunity to make it happen.

Personally i would snip the top 1 week before flowering ot earlier. some people do it one week after starting flowering, but i think if u do it 1 week into flowering it will take much longer to heal and branch out into new colas. plus when u start flowering u want all her energy to go into making buds, not healing a cut and producing a whole new set of colas. hopes this helps. im hittin the bed i will check up tommorow if u have anymore ?'s i can answer.

p.s. i would pick up a copy of Jorge Cervantes marijuana horticulture indoor/outdoor grow bible. it 512 color pages. its like 20 somethin bucks but worth its weight in gold. i consult it almost every single day. it solved a problem tonight that i was having with my plants. i thought it was nute burn or salt buildup, but upon furtur investigating in the book i realized it was nitrogen deficency. im out peace

Can't argue with Mr Cervantes, perhaps it would be a good idea to take the first clones from the bottom, I'm still learning as well, maybe I should get this grow bible I've been hearing lots about.

They say that plants can grow 2 -3 times their hieght during flowering but I'm thinking it depends on the plants conditions and pots, your plants can only grow as big as your pots, meaning the bigger the pot the better chances of them getting big, vise versa, the smaller the pot the smaller the plant, however if you are not taking care of them properly it's quite possible to shock and stunt them no matter the size of the pot.

LOL, I was typing as you posted, that's too funny, yeah I want a copy of that book, where might I find one? preferably not off the internet, do most hydro/head shops sell copies?

Night billybob!

check your local bookstores(booksamillion, barnes n noble etc). anywhere where they have a huge selection, look in the gardening area. they should have it. i highly highly recommend it. it has a whole section with pictures of problems with plants and the way to fix them.it has extensive sections on life cycles, outdoors, hash making, breeding, hydroponics, air, water & nutes, a few grow journals, grow room construction and countless other information. it doesnt have everything but the stuff it does sure beats the hell out of searching for the answer on here for hours. peace humboldt.

or you can go here and watch his grow video. theres also high times and some others

The Best (Free!) Online Cannabis Grow Vids-- A Grupthink Topic

Hey thanks for that link t0k3s, much appreciated, will be watching them real soon.

Peace!

Humboldt said:

Hey thanks for that link t0k3s, much appreciated, will be watching them real soon.

Peace!

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np man i learn some good stuff from those.

So... yesterday my area experienced a power outage lasting from about 3 in the afternoon (halfway through Episode 2 in my Star Wars marathon) through till the morning at about 5-6. My plant was in the dark for this time, though I tried to get a little window light to keep her going. She was on 24/7 lighting and this is the first time she's seen a large period of darkness. Does this mean I need to take clones and bust this bitch into flowering? or can I put her back to 24/7 without incident? I really don't want her to screw up and become unusable.

anyways, hope to hear from someone soon.

hey, i dont know anything about it, but if you were growing outdoors...it would just be a cloudy day

I don't know that I have read anything exactly the same but I do know that one method (I'm not saying a good one) of sexing is to switch to flowering early and then switch back to veg after sex is determined, it causes unnecessary stress to the plants but apparently some do it so in my unprofessional opinion they should be fine but I am only on my first grow. Just think it wouldn't make sense if it caused a lot of problems.

Lithomunky said:

hey, i dont know anything about it, but if you were growing outdoors...it would just be a cloudy day

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they still get light when its cloudy lol. and they should be alright just make sure it dosent happen again.if you have them happen alot maybe invest in backup power.

was a really windy (and out of the ordinary) day. Normally have power even in bad storms, but this one knocked out power all across my county. She doesn't seem to be having a problem, actually seems to have pushed up some more growth out of the top and the ends of the stems.

Thanks for the response. The power outage really had me worried.

alrighty, quick update on my baby...

Today I'm going to take some clones and in the near future I'm going to bud this bitch. My question is, after taking the clones do I need to wait for a couple of days to let the plant recover? or can I move her straight into a 12/12 cycle and hope she's ready by the new year?

Would be tight to actually smoke my own bud to ring in 2009.

Anyways, that's the question, I'll take pictures of the clones when I get them in the rocwool and the plant after she's done with her trimming.

Just droping in and showin some love to fam!!!!whats crakin Ninja!!!!!!209 juggalo right here WOOP WOOP....anyhow GL with your plants and stay up homie!