Not sure that there is a benefit other than trying to see if it can be done. My initial run on at cloning was a disaster and thought I wouldn't have anything to breed with my ATF #4 male I have been keeping around specifically for that purpose. So Lady A posted a link on taking clones while still fairly early in the flower stage. So in order to keep the dream of cloning my ATF #2 for breeding with ATF #4 male, I took several clones. I also took a Blueberry clone as well (basically because I was not impressed with the Blueberry in veg stage, but man she has turned into a beast in flower so I figured why not try to cross breed her with ATF #4 and see what it gets me).
Now in the mean time, I managed to salvage 3 of the 6 clones (1 from each strain...ATF, Blue Kush, and Durban Poison) from my disastrous cloning attempt and they are transplanted and having some great new growth. So turns out I don't really need the clones taken from the flower phase. But never one to let an chance to experiment go un-used, I tried a few different ways of cloning those cuts I took in flower. I am trying both rockwool and rapid rooter plugs.....both in the humidity dome and in produce bags to see which way has a better success rate. I am also going to take cuttings from ATF #4 (big male) and try putting directly into soil like I do with my tomato cuttings and see how that turns out. I will do that not really because I need to clone him, but more for experimentation (going to take cuttings from both high and low to see if there is a difference) and as a means to keep him shorter for my shorter breeding tent.
I know that was a bit of a long explanation but it kind of gives my reasoning for all of it LOL.
