Just confirming

rkm

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I am just wanting to confirm what I have been reading. Or at least the general consensus. I have a plant, actually 2 but only one is really growing good, but I am only concerned with the good one in this post. They both were planted on 7/15 so tomorrow it will be exactly 3 weeks old. It is 5 to 5 1/2 inches tall and now has 7 fingers.

I plan on cloning. Should I wait until the branches start alternating or is now good to take a clipping? How much longer will it be before they start alternating? I still dont know what the sex is yet, which is another reason I would like to take a clipping and see. But for the sake of the room I have, I would like to take the clone after harvest, if it turns out to be female. I just dont really have room to keep a mother. Never the less, I have a couple other options I can investigate, but becomes a pain in my ass if I go with them.

After one more week I plan on starting nutes, as I have determined here that 30 days is when that is started. How long should I feed them before flipping to 12/12? By my calculations of my grow area I can let it get to about 14 inches. I am getting some stuff today to start LST, because this to me seems like a very compact plant.

Man, I am trying very hard to be patient, I have found that growing is the easy part, patience is the hard part. :cry:. I havent screwed anything up too bad yet that wasnt fixable. I am just a little anxious to start seeing some bud.

I have thought about switching to 12/12 in about 2 weeks, but it seems like it may be a little early considering the height now, and the potential height I can let it get to. But then again, in 2 weeks it could have a spurt and be growing out of the box.
 

VictorVIcious

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sorry I've been a little busy over the weekend. You could take cutting now, I'd wait another week or so. Begin introducing nutes at 1/4 recommended strength and bump it up a little at a time until full strength.Clones don't have take up much room. You do not want to wait until after flowering to take clones. It takes a lot of extra time to force them back to vegging. Instead I would recommend you take your clones from the bottom branches and take at least two from each plant right when you are ready to place the original plant (s) in flowering. If you meet the law of averages you will have two female clones in vegging when you harvest your first plant. If the law beats you, you will know you can clone. Not much risk, great rewards. Pruning the bottom of the plant will aid in air circulation and help the plant(s). I trim mine once more about two weeks into 12/12 light cycle and pull a couple more clones then. Takes up less room than a mother if space is an issue. VV
PS. RTFM??? old folks need help with this stuff.
 
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