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ware container , burping air and turning the buds daily for two weeks.
Once experienced grower told me to dry in an uninsulated area of the house(like the
garage) so that the temperature will rise and fall each night, as the plant is drying. If you treat the
plant as if it were still alive, it will use some of it's chlorophyll while it is drying, and the smoke
will be less harsh.
CLONING
Cloning is asexual reproduction. Cuttings are taken from a mother plant in vegetative
growth, and rooted in hydroponic medium to be grown as a separate plant. The offspring will be
plants that are identical to the parent plant.
Cloning preserves the character of your favourite plant. Cloning can make an ocean of
green out of a single plant, so it is a powerful tool for growing large crops, and will fill a closet
quickly with your favourite genetics. When you find the plant you want to be your "buddy" for
the rest of your life, you can keep that plant's genetic character alive for decades and pass it on
to your children's children. Propagate and share it with others, to keep a copy, should your own
line die out. A clone can be taken from a clone at least 20 times, and probably more, so don't
worry about myths of reduced vigour. Many reports indicate it's not a problem.
Cloning will open you to the risk of a fungus or pests wiping out the whole crop, so it's
important to pick plants that exhibit great resistance to fungus and pests. Pick the plant you feel
will be the most reliable to reproduce in large scale, based on health, growth rate, resistance to
pests, and potency. The quality of the high, and the type of buzz you get will be a very important
determining factor.
Take cuttings for clones before you move plants from vegetative grow area to the
flowering area. Low branches are cut to increase air circulation under the green canopy. Rooted
clones are moved to the vegetative growth area, and new clones are started in the cloning area
using the low branch cuttings. Each cycle of growth will take from 4-8 weeks, so you can
constantly be growing in 3 stages, and harvesting every 6-8 weeks.
Some types of plants are more difficult to clone than others. Big Bud is reported to not
clone very well. One of my favourite plants, Mr. Kona, is the most amazing pot I ever smoked,
but it is hard as hell to clone. What a challenge! I noticed other varieties that were rooting much
quicker, but it was the stone I was after! Once you find the psychoactive, almost hallucinogenic
properties of some Indica/Sativa hybrids, you never want to smoke a pure Indica again. Indica is
however, great medicinally, so I like to grow a few pure strains too.
If a plant is harvested, you can sample it, and decide if you want to clone it. Pick your
favourite 2 or 3 distinctly different types of plants to clone, based on trying the harvested plants.
The plants you want to clone can be regenerated by putting them in constant light. In a few
weeks, you will have many vegetative cuttings available for cloning and preserving your
favourite plants. Always keep a mother plant in vegetative mode for any strain you want to keep
alive. If you flower all your clones, you may end up killing off a strain if you don't have any
plant devoted to being a mother. I killed off a sacred strain accidentally this way; my harvested
plants failed to regenerate and the strain would have died completely had not previously I've
given it to friends to grow it as well. I was in luck, and a buddy set me up with another clone of
this strain to grow as a mother plant for a new crop of clones.
After two months, any marijuana plant can be cloned. Flowering plants can be cloned,
but the procedure may take considerably longer. Its best to wait, and regenerate vegetatively
plants that have been harvested. A single regenerated/harvested plant can generate hundreds of
cuttings. Before taking cuttings, starve the plant for nitrogen for a week at least, so that the plant
is not extremely green, as this will make rooting take longer. Take cuttings from the bottom 1/3
of the plant, when doing ordinary pruning. Cut young growth tips from a vegetative stage,
mature plant 3-5 inches long with a stem diameter 1/5-1/10 inch. Cut with a sterile razor blade
or X-acto knife (flamed) and immerse the cut end of the clone into a tub of distilled water
mixed with 1/4 tspn Peters 5-50-17 per gallon. Next, cut the bottom .2 inch off the end while it
is submerged, using a diagonal cut. Remove the clone from the tub and dip into a liquid cloning
solution following instructions on the label. Dust with RootToneF and place in cloning tray or
medium. Flowering plants can be cloned too, but may take longer, and may not have as high a
success rate.
Cloning goes quickest with the liquid rooting solutions, in a warmed, aerated tray, with
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