I also had to flip my veg tent over a few weeks ago to flowering
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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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Thanks happy!!
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Cut leaves or leave them be … FWIW!
I won’t argue either way, but can give you the botanical considerations…
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If you are taking large clones cutting some of the leaves limits transpiration and thus can prevent your clones from water stress and drying out before rooting.
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It really depends on what your cloning experience is!! If you use a turbo cloner and your experience is your clones root quickly there is NO need to cut foliage.
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This practice originated in commercial nurseries growing large numbers of ornamental cuttings, usually in some kind of potting soil mix. Also consider some of the harder wood cuttings take much longer to root (so removing or limiting some leaf area is much more beneficial)
Soooo basically in cannabis it probably is not practiced that often…sometimes you will see some of the leaves trimmed when looking at a large table full of clones. I believe this is to prevent shading or light competition on the densely packed tables…JMHO Good Luck!!
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I thought I’d pull this over to my journal so we can talk about this and some other things. As far as this post I like it, makes perfect sense. Now I would like your opinion on defoliating outdoor plants. I’m kind of a do it and see what happened guy. It’s apparent to me that you know a lot more of the science than I do. I do my outdoor the same as my indoor except I leave the sides full and just gut the center and remove all low growth. I see most of the outdoor growers leave a lot more growth on the bottom and towards the center of the plant. My question is scientifically, is there any science defining the difference between heavy strip and not at all or very little on outdoor?
Well I screwed that up and posted it here instead of on my journal… sorry. 
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Well Hap, I will tell you what I know from my experience…
First off consider this…we use nuets to stimulate LEAF growth. Leaves are the ENGINE. All the energy is derived from the leaves! Leaves also provide a function that is often overlooked…they TRANSLOCATE all the good stuff from the ‘factory’ to the demand sites. (apical meristems, flower buds and even the roots).
Yes, even the roots cannot expand without the energy supplied by the leaves through the phloem!
Anyway, outdoor plants are not normally defoliated to the same extent as indoor plants because the sun supplies even light as it moves through the sky. Also air movement is natural and usually abundant.
Defoliation is necessary in indoor grows to supply air circulation and light penetration. I subscribe to the practice of limiting defoliation to 20%± at one time. If there was ever a situation where you couldn’t get water to your plants for an extended time, removing large amounts of foliage would be an emergency life saving technique.
Quite frankly, the practice of ‘lolipoping’ your plants before all your bud is developed and filled is counterproductive and somewhat idiotic IMHO…but that’s just me!!
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I kind of figured as much. But I’m gonna keep doing what I do because I don’t want no junk. None. My plants are babied every day and when my grow is done I don’t have bags of inferior flower that grows at the bottom and in the center of the plant. Just because It makes more work for me later. I do leave a lot more on the plants outside But it is quite a bit less than most others that I’ve seen, you’ll see what I’m talking about in a month.
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I do Lollipop before flip indoors, it definitely helps with limiting small airy buds but I am using a scrog with large plants so not much light gets to the bottom. But there is also more light available outdoors and its hitting different areas of the plant throughout the day vs only coming through multiple feet of foliage from the top . As for defoliation outdoors I have a cool wet fall and try to focus on removing unproductive branchs ect burried in the center of the plant to help avoid rots and moulds ect.
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I remove leaves in the center and small branches that will never make it to the outside or canopy. I remove bottom branches to get airflow and access to the back of the greenhouse
Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get back there
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