Her name is Giggles she’s an experiment. I broke a branch on accident so for shits and giggles I stuck it in water, added some cal mag and some other nutes. She has grown out new leaves and started to flower since I put her in water I change the water every few days. I added some rooting stuff a few days ago.
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I’m sure I could Google this but I’m stoned and being lazy. Why do you cut the leaves when you clone? I know you said an experiment, but I see this all the time. Just never asked.
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From what I’ve been told it causes the plant/clipping to focus on new growth and roots instead of making the cut leaves bigger. Witch is exactly what has happened. There could be other reasons also.
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Makes perfect sense. I appreciate the info.
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Also learned something. Hell I just trimmed mine to have more room in the cloner…
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I’ve always cut the tips of my fan leaves while taking clones as well, I’ve heard it can reduce some of the transpiration along with focusing energy and growth away from leaves but I’m having trouble finding any studies on it at the moment. @PreyBird1 and @cooperm would be two of the members I would look to for cloning tips. Cooperms thread CLONES and back to the forum
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I wasn’t even planning on cloning but I broke branch and my wife said " what would happen if you put it in water". Now I’m trying to figure out where to put it and what kind of soil. I’m thinking of putting it in a peat and perlite mix to start with then transplant into the ground inside my 5x10 greenhouse. What tripped me out was that it started to flower before it even put out any roots. The mother plant started flowering at the same time witch was to be expected
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Yes I’ve learned cannabis a a very resilient plant. I personal don’t clip my clones I have in the past. For me have had the same success either way. I really don’t think it matters as long as those roots get growing. But I’ve mainly just been growing from seed.
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This happens to me all the time
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From what I could see it was only one cola from each plant. I was in a scramble getting an ac in my dry room, and running our of time for the day so I didn’t look crazy hard. Might bite me in the ass.
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if it was an auto it will grow at exactly the same stage as the mother plant
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Even if its photo it should mature at the same time as the mother if the lighting is the same. I grow photo’s outdoors in a greenhouse. The clipping got the same amount of light as the mother. I hadn’t noticed that the mother was starting to flower until I saw it on the clipping. It had been in the water for two weeks when it started to flower.
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Well ive read that cutting the leaves off causes the plants to stop photosynthesis. Which supppsedly affects the plant to where its roots start looking for water and nutrients sooner.
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But ive also read cutting the leaves causes harder to root. 3 leaves is better than 2. The more leaves the faster it roots.
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Ok cutting leaves is bad…well i cut mine for more room in my cloner and air flow. But here is a cool quick read.
I started cutting my leaves after an episode of cannacribs. And they cut the leaf tips. Then dipped the fresh cut leaves in flying skullz brand clone dip.
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That’s a nice pic right there I’ll tell you. 
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