Cuttings from veg or flower?

I have a couple questions. I was told if you keep a mother plant it is best if it has never been flowered. Is there truth to that? Second why is it said that it's best to take cuttings from a flowering plant? I have been taking cuttings off of mother plants that just stay in my propagation area. They were all started from seed and never flowered. Always 18/6. I have had 100% success in my aero cloner, but it does seem to take awhile? Sometimes up to a month before they are healthy looking and are ready for hydroton/baskets. I usually read about guys taking cuttings after 2 weeks of flower. Why? I just want to learn. Thanks guys, I will kick back and burn 1 and wait for my lesson. LOL.

Phat J said:

I have a couple questions. I was told if you keep a mother plant it is best if it has never been flowered. Is there truth to that? Second why is it said that it's best to take cuttings from a flowering plant? I have been taking cuttings off of mother plants that just stay in my propagation area. They were all started from seed and never flowered. Always 18/6. I have had 100% success in my aero cloner, but it does seem to take awhile? Sometimes up to a month before they are healthy looking and are ready for hydroton/baskets. I usually read about guys taking cuttings after 2 weeks of flower. Why? I just want to learn. Thanks guys, I will kick back and burn 1 and wait for my lesson. LOL.

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what ever roots, its good as long as the clone is not budding, a budding clone will root but takes longer to get going, veg wise, budding clones have more carbs to root but i suggest you dont clone after the first week flip to 12/12. I like pumice sand to clone in or peat, water cloners take forever and can be unreliable from my experience.

What ever roots fastest for you , its all the same genetic material.

I have had some strains that didn't like monster cropping (cloning in flower). they never totally revegged healthy, ended up all fucked up. Star Dawg did that to me.

Monster cropping your clones by cutting them about 10 - 14 days into 12/12 causes more branching at the base of the resulting plant. The longer you let them go into flower the longer they will take to root and reveg. Bonus is longer = more branching as the branches will sprout out of the little bud.

If you do monster crop a strain don't count on it as a way to keep that strain unless you know that strain responds well to monster cropping. I lost my killer star dawg pheno doing that.

Renfro said:

… If you do monster crop a strain don't count on it as a way to keep that strain unless you know that strain responds well to monster cropping. I lost my killer star dawg pheno doing that ...

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My condolences Renfro. Been in that boat. I had a very nice S5 Haze/OG Kush cross who didn't root in VEG so I had to rely on monster cropping about 2 weeks into flower to try and save her. And natch, it didn't clone when I tried monster cropping. Must have been the strain cause the Diesel taken at the same time rooted fine in VEG and rooted fine when monster cropped. Oh well … we win some and we lose some.

When the flowering clone roots, you will find that the first few fan leaves will be a darker green and a single finger. It doesn't look anything like a normal cannabis plant. Shortly after, the normal nodes with normal looking fan leaves will grow. Depending on your set-up, you might find it necessary to trim most of those single fingers and funky branches cause the plant can get a little out of hand with the myriad of growth.