Question about cloning

[TriWingGirl]

A Friend told me once that i could take clones from a flowering female.

My question is; i have a female plant been flowering for 2 weeks, can i still take clones from her?

I am already aware i would be taking undeveloped lower branches. I have lots of lower branches i'm going to be getting rid of soon anyway.

I am asking because i hate wasteing time and my space is full and limited.

 

[supermanlives]

yes you can .

 

[slackx]

You absolutely can - sometimes the reveg process can make it take much longer, and some plants develop mutations from the hormone changes, but alas if you just let them go they'll turn out just fine - many of the great clones so many seek came from a reveg.

 

[exploziv]

lower branches root pretty fast even in the first 2 to 3 weeks of flowering.

 

[TriWingGirl]

I think that is what i was told thank you for the confirmation. That answers my question.

I was told i could use the lower branches that have not started showing flowers yet, that they would have the least reveg trouble. Non differentiated branches i think was the words he used.


I would expect that since they are from a full size plant the clones will be female and very big and strong like mom.

 

[KushmasterFatt]

Yes, you can take while in flower usually you wanna try to make your deadline for taking clones before or by week 3, unless your not worried about the turn around time, but if you take nice big healthy clones they tend to root in half the time as scrawny ones, in my experiences anyway.. hope i could help

 

[Phaeton]

I have a very sturdy cloning mother and I take 28 clones at a time off a single plant. A whole lot of variety in the cuttings. A whole lot of variety in rate of growth.
Overall average puts the lower cuttings in slower growth. Tip cuttings grow the fastest, once again faster near the top of the plant. Lighter green is slower, yellow is already dead, dark green is faster, and again, closer to the top is faster.
All the clones root with my plant, but on harder cloning plants I'm guessing the slow grows might turn out no grows.
The advantages of single clone growing is learning the plant over the years. Kinda like children, I know what to expect from my kids, but I am WTF around strangers'.

Just elaborating on KushmasterFatt's comment on root times. Usually the really low inside leaves are lightstarved and scrawny relative to a little higher and outside growths, this scrawniness follows the plant all its little life.