Good luck SB, hope it works for you.

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OK, it's time to sex the plants using water cloning. This time we dont need roots, just a way to mark which cuttings belong to what plant. Here's how I sex seedlings before flowering or even preflowers.

Cuts don't have to be big at all, just an inch or so, depending on the thickness of the foam they'll be sitting in



It's no very thick, so an inch will do nicely



Now take a pot with straight sides for several inches off the ground and make a template of your styrofoam clone tray.

Make sure it fits insidew the pot with no touching the sides anywhere. If it does, it could impede the foam dropping with the water level. If that happens, stems could be exposed, killing the cuttings.



Poke holes in it big enough for the stem. I have 12 plants this time, so 12 holes







Number each hole and fill it from the plant with the corresponding number

It even seems the smaller you keep them the better the foam is supported in the water. Make sure each clone pokes out al the way out



All twelve and all twelve in the room with the HPS. I expect them to show sex in two weeks or a bit less. I will not have to maintain them at all for that period.

These clones are five days old, so it will be at least another week before I can see some signs of sex.

[big mike]

you just keep them on the outskirts of the lights?
thanks..

Yeah Mike, a 400 HPS is way too much light for unrooted clones. All you truly have to do is give em enough light to force the cuttings to recognize a 12/12 photoperiod and the natural plant resonse will take over. Even in a piece cut off a mother (father) plant.

[issack]

this has helped me so much man..much Mahalo!!! ( means thank you in Hawaiian)....

Right on issack! Glad to hear it

Some interesting developments in the clone area have me intrigued and excited. Eleven of the twelve cuts I put under the HPS on 12/12 have shown roots in seven days! That is remarkable consistency for this method and 7 days is about as good as it gets for rooting speed, not that I think that's important.

So far no signs of sex on the cuttings, but I have (irnically enough) been able to sex a couple of the plants from pre-flowers.

More experiments to follow

Hey Cap i havent seen this thread.. I dont believe so anyway.
But its a great thread im going to go back and read it in its entirety.. peace..

Sack's First Outdoor Grow
Our grow has updated 1 flowering plant LQQK!!

sack

[A-Loc]

great thread, my pops swears by this and i never believed him. didn't think it would work without any cloning gel or rooting hormone. but i am now a believer, i actually took a cutting today and put it in water before i read this. well awesome thread!

A-Loc