Flowering cuttings

Black Cough

Black Cough

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Hi all. I just watched a YouTube video produced by stony girl farms and they were putting cuttings under 12/12 just to determine gender. I'm going to give it a try, but I am wondering if anyone has any advice. I'm not worried about loosing the cuttings, I'm only concerned about the gender.
 
i have never tried to do this with a cutting, but i have heard people do this. usually by the time the plant is big enough to take a cutting and then waiting 2 weeks for the cutting to show sex, the mother plant should have pre-flowers by then anyway.

i might clone a potential male so i can get rid of the larger plant and keep a smaller version of the male until i am ready to use him.
 
I can only grow 6 plants, so I want good ones. I popped about 50 reg. beans, and I don't want to stress the keepers. I figure if I flower the cuttings the " mothers will stay stable, and I can identify the males.
 
alot of people do this,if you plan on veging them for 2 or 3 months,it works very well in finding out whiich ones are male or female,then u can get rid of the ones you are sure will be male,
 
tip top toker said:
Possibly for the other way around. Sexing the cutting so as to know whether to continue growing out an established plant.
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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.
 
Sunbiz1 said:
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.
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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.
 
Sunbiz1 said:
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.
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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.
 
tip top toker said:
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.
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I don't even bother keeping a "mother" plant., that gets smoked...every clone is a mother that gets smoked eventually.:mrgreen:

I think I'm on generation 7 on one strain going back 18 months.:peace:
 
Aeroknow said:
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.
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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.
 
Sunbiz1 said:
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.
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Ohhhh, well of course i don't ditch the corresponding cut/plant of the potential keeper, until i sample and weigh the mom ;-)
I'll usually clone the cut again though, before i know whats up, because of space
 
Aeroknow said:
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.
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That's a really good idea
 
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