Clone perpetual harvest question

ElmerS

Active Member
I’m having trouble conceptualizing how this might work.

In my state, Minnesota, I can have eight plants half of which can be in flower.

I grow out four plants and top them. Use the tops for clones and flip the four mother plants to flower

While the Mother plants are flowering, the clones are growing into bigger plants that after I harvest the Mother plants I can then likewise top (the clones) for new clones and flip the first set of clones I took to flower and grow out the second round of clones.

Am I thinking about this correctly?

Another wrench in the works….In the winter months, the temperature and humidity seems to be much more controllable, so I’m thinking that I might avoid a lot of problems by not doing too much growing in the humid summer months.

during those summer months, does it make sense to try to keep some plants in veg, so I’m ready to go in the cooler weather and lower humidity or would it be best just to start over from seed?

Finally, if a train leaves town “A” at 9 o’clock in the morning heading east toward town “B” at 20 mph, and a second train leaves town “B“ Traveling west toward town “A” going 30 mph at 10 o’clock in the morning, and they pass each other at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, how far apart are the two towns.?

Thanks in advance
 

Highway61

Well-Known Member
Also in MN here.

That sounds about right for a perpetual grow. If you find a keeper in your first run, you can reveg and take clones from the keeper in late summer for a full run of just that one best pheno as the temps drop.
 

ElmerS

Active Member
Also in MN here.

That sounds about right for a perpetual grow. If you find a keeper in your first run, you can reveg and take clones from the keeper in late summer for a full run of just that one best pheno as the temps drop.
Thanks. My head just spins when I try to figure if it makes sense
 

BrassNwood

Well-Known Member
I’m having trouble conceptualizing how this might work.

In my state, Minnesota, I can have eight plants half of which can be in flower.

I grow out four plants and top them. Use the tops for clones and flip the four mother plants to flower

While the Mother plants are flowering, the clones are growing into bigger plants that after I harvest the Mother plants I can then likewise top (the clones) for new clones and flip the first set of clones I took to flower and grow out the second round of clones.

Am I thinking about this correctly?

Another wrench in the works….In the winter months, the temperature and humidity seems to be much more controllable, so I’m thinking that I might avoid a lot of problems by not doing too much growing in the humid summer months.

during those summer months, does it make sense to try to keep some plants in veg, so I’m ready to go in the cooler weather and lower humidity or would it be best just to start over from seed?

Finally, if a train leaves town “A” at 9 o’clock in the morning heading east toward town “B” at 20 mph, and a second train leaves town “B“ Traveling west toward town “A” going 30 mph at 10 o’clock in the morning, and they pass each other at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, how far apart are the two towns.?

Thanks in advance
August 1st = Take Clones / plant seeds
Oct 15th = Harvest, Set out veg plants in just harvested Holes, Take clones off the plants you just installed.
Jan 1st = Same
March 15th = Same
June 1st = Harvest, set out veg plants for summer.

You'll have 4 in flower and 4 in veg running concurrently on a 10-week cycle interrupted by the extended 60 day extra veg in June and July.
I've run this for the last 12 years with 4 harvest per year all outside with an old garden shed to veg in.

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Currently running this set in veg in-ground under lights. I'll shut the lights off on Jan 1 and they'll be ready to harvest 10 weeks later in mid-March.
 

Highway61

Well-Known Member
if a train leaves town “A” at 9 o’clock in the morning heading east toward town “B” at 20 mph, and a second train leaves town “B“ Traveling west toward town “A” going 30 mph at 10 o’clock in the morning, and they pass each other at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, how far apart are the two towns.?
220 miles.
 

BrassNwood

Well-Known Member
Start now. Veg until March 15th. Flip that set and take clones from them that day. They'll be ready to Harvest June 1st and the ones you cloned / started in March can be set out for summer.
 

cannabiscrusader

Well-Known Member
Yeah, 220 miles.

If you don't grow inside in the summer, just keep a small bonsai mother of your keeper. Just keep it under low light, keep pruning it back, and feed it once every other week. About 2 weeks before you are ready to take clones, just repot it and crank the light up.

Here's 3 small mothers. One is 5 months old, one is 3, and one is a few weeks. I've kept one like this for 5 years. My buddy killed it when I went in the hospital.
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ElmerS

Active Member
Yeah, 220 miles.

If you don't grow inside in the summer, just keep a small bonsai mother of your keeper. Just keep it under low light, keep pruning it back, and feed it once every other week. About 2 weeks before you are ready to take clones, just repot it and crank the light up.

Here's 3 small mothers. One is 5 months old, one is 3, and one is a few weeks. I've kept one like this for 5 years. My buddy killed it when I went in the hospital.
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Sorry for your loss, but thanks for the system!
 

ElmerS

Active Member
August 1st = Take Clones / plant seeds
Oct 15th = Harvest, Set out veg plants in just harvested Holes, Take clones off the plants you just installed.
Jan 1st = Same
March 15th = Same
June 1st = Harvest, set out veg plants for summer.

You'll have 4 in flower and 4 in veg running concurrently on a 10-week cycle interrupted by the extended 60 day extra veg in June and July.
I've run this for the last 12 years with 4 harvest per year all outside with an old garden shed to veg in.

View attachment 5351258
Currently running this set in veg in-ground under lights. I'll shut the lights off on Jan 1 and they'll be ready to harvest 10 weeks later in mid-March.
Can’t argue with that kind of experience…. Now I just have to get some experience under my belt
 
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