That's why I haven't minded taking clones in flower recently. I've got a plateful of plants that need to be flowered, with a few gender unknown. China Yunnan, Maple Leaf Indica, and a couple more. Plus got plants I wanna see for a second go round, Mountain Tenple, Snow Queens. All these plants are hitting almost 2 feet tall and are going to pose a problem if I don't flower them soon or start hacking at them
Just seems like more work. I have enough of it in my tiny garden, why add more?
Can I ask why you say to always top pure indicas? I have yet to enter the world of mothers and cloning(so many strains I want to try, so little room) but it sure would be nice to know every tip and trick out there.
It's not a hard rule for me as I usually don't top, but I didn't top my PCK or MLI (I did top one, now I've got amazing branches to take cuts from) and I was stuck with bean poles making it difficult to clone.
Ok I think I understand. Cheers!
Otherwise it can be rough to get good clone sites, as many have very very little side branching, or the side branches tend to stay close to the main stem and remain pretty short. Good lighting penetration helps, but I've grown a few strains where I've had to flower them out for 1-2 weeks or veg them for an extremely long period of time to get any reasonable clone sites. I think its best to get to know a plant first before you top it, my LA Confidential cut does not like to be topped at all, it can stunt her growth completely for over a week in veg.
Minus the weird bean pole that is my bangi haze (wish I'd topped her, she has no branching!) I wouldn't ever top a sativa, usually there is more than enough branching to have to deal with.
This fella that used to hang out here, Mycomaster, did all his plants in mainline. Had a very cool perpetual system going so as soon as something came out something new went in. What I liked about his runs is he always got around three zips and up per plant, and always had four varieties going at least. Very productive garden, low profile, single 600 watt lamp. He is busy setting up a badass room now... When dialled in it seems to really kick ass
Pure sativas don't always do very well if thrown into flower without reaching maturation in veg.
I'm totally with you on this, I try to let seed plants run as long as possible before I cut clones, and with the longer flowering strains you can definitely tell once they've been around long enough to really find their groove. I really don't expect much more from a seed run of most stretchy sativas other than to get a rough idea of the potential of a plant.
Yes indeed, but this does not count if your mom is mature, the clones can just be run.
I have stopped bothering with seed runs. Everything gets mothered, and one test clone goes in. Take a a little longer to find out what you have but you waste a lot less flowering space doing so. Most types now only hit flower around 4 months after I popped the seed. Took me a while tweaking stuff this way but seed runs I can only take that many more of lol... I learned to grow with moms and clones, still prefer it.
long term goal that.
