Possibly for the other way around. Sexing the cutting so as to know whether to continue growing out an established plant.
Maybe I'm just doing it differently. I hunt for desired phenos in reg beans by flipping the switch into flowering, then eliminating males. At this point, I do not know which lady is the keeper, so I'm forced to clone and label everything until all the final products are tested. Then I toss the undesired clones.
Yeah, i think it's just done for a different reasoning. I never vegged plants long enough to justify taking a clone to determine sex. When i did take clones, i would take a couple of each and then mother them till i could determine which were worth growing out, by smoking the donor.
Call me a weirdo too but, i clone/label every single plant from seed rite BEFORE i put into flower. Once males show, or i find less than desireable phenos, i throw away those corresponding cuts. When i start strains from seed, my mamma material has never been flowered. Does it matter? Prob not.
I don't even bother keeping a "mother" plant., that gets smoked...every clone is a mother that gets smoked eventually.
Wish I was good enough to find desired phenos w/o having to sample end product. That would save me a shit ton of time and $$, but I don't trust my own eye combined with a product description. So I clone unnecessarily.
Ohhhh, well of course i don't ditch the corresponding cut/plant of the potential keeper, until i sample and weigh the mom
Exactly what I am on to. I'll take notes.
That's a really good idea
