questions on cloning flowering male marijuana plants..

..k, so i have had my babies on twelve twelve for ten days now, and when i just went and checked on them, i found two males out of the six plants thus far.. one of the three chemdawg x trueblueberry, and the one chocolate bubba kush from plan b...
i don't have a lot of room in my grow, only been using about a 3 x 3 x 6 foot closet for my main grow chamber, and this lil glass like rack thingy with some cfls to veg under untill they get about two weeks old than into closet they go..
i've been thinking about trying my hand at making a few crosses for shits and giggles, but not having a lot of room to keep seperate male rooms and female rooms always put me off it..
so i had read about taking clones from flowering male plants awhile ago and it gave me the idea that maybe a lil pollen chucking wouldn't be completely out of the ? if i just rooted the flowering male clones under 12/12 to keep em flowering..
is my thinking correct on this? they should still continue to flower during rooting as long as i keep up the flowering light schedule, correct?
also, about how long does it take for the male flowers to drop their pollen? like i said, they have been in flower for ten days today, and the chem x bb definitely had some very developed balls on them, but no whole sets yet, and the choco bubba was only a lil behind in its nanner development than the chem was...
any info or ideas on cloning flowering male plants, give me a holla..

Why clone the male? Harvest a little pollen and store it for later use if you think you need to. You do not want the male in that small of a room.

snew said:

Why clone the male? Harvest a little pollen and store it for later use if you think you need to. You do not want the male in that small of a room.

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thats why i'm cloning them.. i have the clones outside of the closet..

Why take a clone and get pollen later when you can just collect it now. The pollen will be identical but if you clone you waste time.

because pollen doesn't stay viable long... and to breed anything good, you have to back-cross, square, and cube the parent plants to keep stable genetics in your new breed..... that is if you want anything good..... so you might need to pollinate for instance a flowering female with her own parent ..... next female from that mates with the now grandparent .... and the next female from that mates with the now great grandparent each time choosing the most desirable traits from each generation of seeds. back-crossing ONLY desirable traits over and over again stabilizing the strain into something that will produce reliable results of desirable traits (color, flavor, size, yield .. whatever your criteria) 99% of the time stable. pollen storage wont cut it for these long term transactions.But thats only if you want to do TOP QUALITY breeding.

You need access to the mother and the father of the plants that created the seeds you're using, also. Hybridization, my man. Consider this: Farmers who plant and grow corn, yield corn seed. Then why don't they just keep some of their harvest and replant it next spring? It's the cross of the two that create the ideal offspring, but crossing the offspring with themselves will not create the same genetic conditions.