noxiously
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I received a freebie Auto Super Cheese seed back in March from an order I placed. I have no experience with Auto strains at all and really wasn't all that interested in growing it out, atleast not as interested as I was in the strain that I ordered. Well, curiosity got the best of me, of course. Now, as stated, this was my first experience with an auto strain, and never really read anything on them, or even know anything about them except that they will start flowering regardless of how long the lights are on.
My first dumb mistake: So the Super Auto Cheese got to a particular height to where I usually start taking clones and I figured, "Hey, what the hell, if it really does finish in 60 days from seed that is awesome and I'll just clone it so that way I can keep that strain around for a while. Yea.....I know.....it doesn't really work that way, which I figured out the dumb way. I have good experience with cloning, but I just didn't think it out. A clone is an exact replica of the mother and it will have all the same attributes as the mother. If I would have actually stopped to think about it I would have figured out that cloning an Auto strain won't produce other big plants. What I ended up with is about 5 clones that took root, but by the time they took root and showed a little bit of new growth the clones had already started to flower. I ended up with the mother plant which was decent and 5 clones that were only about 4 inches tall with one tiny, maybe 2 gram, bud on the main cola and nothing else.
I looked up the topic to see if there was a way to actually clone an auto strain without losing grow time. I came across a few articles where a couple people said that they clones their auto's all the time and that when they clone it slows down the auto flowering by a month. One guy even said after he clones, his auto's won't start to flower for another two months afterwards, and the mother plant has already finished. A few other people argued the fact that with it being a clone, with 100% exact dna/genes/replica of the mother that the clones themselves will finish at the same time as the mother plant because that is what that particular plant is predisposed to do.
Any thoughts on this? I have pretty much already made up my mind that the clones will flower at the same time because it is still the same as the mother and it is the same "age".
But, I wanted to post this because like I said, I have no experience with Auto strains, and maybe there is a way to slow down the clones from flowering at the same time, or maybe there is a way to get better production from a cloned auto strain. Any experienced auto growers want to take this one and shed some light on us non-experienced auto growers?
Oh, and the reason I said that I'm a little unsure in the title is because I don't know if I would want to keep purchasing seeds over and over again just to have a plant that's an auto. I kind of like the idea of buying ten feminized seeds, grow out two of them and clone the nicer one and have that same plant for multiple grows, it helps make the seeds last longer. I'm too poor to constantly buy auto's. lol
My first dumb mistake: So the Super Auto Cheese got to a particular height to where I usually start taking clones and I figured, "Hey, what the hell, if it really does finish in 60 days from seed that is awesome and I'll just clone it so that way I can keep that strain around for a while. Yea.....I know.....it doesn't really work that way, which I figured out the dumb way. I have good experience with cloning, but I just didn't think it out. A clone is an exact replica of the mother and it will have all the same attributes as the mother. If I would have actually stopped to think about it I would have figured out that cloning an Auto strain won't produce other big plants. What I ended up with is about 5 clones that took root, but by the time they took root and showed a little bit of new growth the clones had already started to flower. I ended up with the mother plant which was decent and 5 clones that were only about 4 inches tall with one tiny, maybe 2 gram, bud on the main cola and nothing else.
I looked up the topic to see if there was a way to actually clone an auto strain without losing grow time. I came across a few articles where a couple people said that they clones their auto's all the time and that when they clone it slows down the auto flowering by a month. One guy even said after he clones, his auto's won't start to flower for another two months afterwards, and the mother plant has already finished. A few other people argued the fact that with it being a clone, with 100% exact dna/genes/replica of the mother that the clones themselves will finish at the same time as the mother plant because that is what that particular plant is predisposed to do.
Any thoughts on this? I have pretty much already made up my mind that the clones will flower at the same time because it is still the same as the mother and it is the same "age".
But, I wanted to post this because like I said, I have no experience with Auto strains, and maybe there is a way to slow down the clones from flowering at the same time, or maybe there is a way to get better production from a cloned auto strain. Any experienced auto growers want to take this one and shed some light on us non-experienced auto growers?
Oh, and the reason I said that I'm a little unsure in the title is because I don't know if I would want to keep purchasing seeds over and over again just to have a plant that's an auto. I kind of like the idea of buying ten feminized seeds, grow out two of them and clone the nicer one and have that same plant for multiple grows, it helps make the seeds last longer. I'm too poor to constantly buy auto's. lol