Preserve a clone

[Savvage61]

I am currently into week 3 of Blackberry moonrocks they have a short flower time of 7-9 weeks If I want to keep clones for another grow when Do I cut them and how do I preserve them I read in a big zip loc bag with a little bit of water they said they will keep for 3 months is there a better way or a away to keep them longer?

Thx in advance
Savvage61

 

[Tokin Roll]

That's a good question @Savvage61

I recently put to auto's in a stalled growth pattern for three weeks, and I ended up with two very healthy and short plants.
I believe that anytime changes are made to auto's the results will the overall size of the plant.

I could be wrong, because I mainly play with photoperiod plants.

Good luck and I will follow along if you don't mind.

Stay safe, and grow well my friend,
Tok..

 

[Savvage61]

welcome aboard TnR yeah these are the photo version of BRM and I was hoping to keep clones long enough to regrow seeing how I have 1 4x4 tent to work with

 

[Lerugged]

Take cuttings at anytime or if you can and you really want to keep the strain, reveg her after harvesting her. Just leave a few looser buds and as many leaves as you can and pop her under 18 or 24 hours of light. If you are trying to stall her then the reveg should buy you a month or two but keeping cutting in ziplocs for months, I've not seen that before. My guess is too much leaf on plastic vibe with all that humidity.

 

[Lerugged]

Short version is rooted cutting will likely last longer so I advise to root them and go from there. You could then root prune them or keep them in small pots until you want to do your thing. Hope it helps. Been hitting the doob a little early today

 

[SmokingWings]

If I want to keep clones for another grow when Do I cut them

Yes, you will have to take a cutting from the existing plant which becomes the 'mother'.

how do I preserve them I read in a big zip loc bag with a little bit of water

The cutting has to be rooted and the two popular ways are to put it into a small container of soil or to put it into a small glass or jar of water. The zip lock bag idea does not work the way you typed it up. The bag is placed over the cutting and the container it is in as a type of tent to maintain a level of humidity.

Sometimes taking the cuttings and ending up with a clone or many clones is easy and sometimes it can be near impossible to get even one. Practice, practice and more practice. Try the methods you read about and eventually one will work for you.

Best thing is to go through the sub-forums under the "The Grow Room" heading and check out any thread the has 'clone' in the title for starters. Some threads end up being about clones but don't have the word in the title so you will have to come up a way to figure those out somehow so you don't have to read the entire thread.

 

[Lerugged]

Ohhhh like a humidity dome. Yes keep that humidity up for a few days and then gradually let them get used to the air. Good luck

 

[013]

there’s a few baggie tricks, one is baggie over jar whereas the baggie is a humidity dome. The other is to put your clone contraption (rapid rooter peat puck) in sealed baggie for 4 days but open for air exchange 1 time each day…

but the caveat is you need to use a drinking straw to inflate the bag as you ziplock it - that way the foliage doesn’t stick to the bag

the sealed baggie trick is supposed to kinda force root nodes to grow quickly on the stem. full disclosure - I’ve read of this trick & tried it, but didn’t have time to pursue it

 

[Savvage61]

Ohhhh like a humidity dome. Yes keep that humidity up for a few days and then gradually let them get used to the air. Good luck

not trying to change the subject but I saw your Durban poison grow What type of climate and temps did you grow it in?

 

[Lerugged]

I grow in Cape Town so it gets pretty hot here in summer 32 c and fairly humid. You could Google the exact climate but It's medeterain climate. Great for weed and grapes

 

[jokerlola]

I am currently into week 3 of Blackberry moonrocks they have a short flower time of 7-9 weeks If I want to keep clones for another grow when Do I cut them and how do I preserve them I read in a big zip loc bag with a little bit of water they said they will keep for 3 months is there a better way or a away to keep them longer?

Thx in advance
Savvage61

I was able to keep a cannabis plant branch and several cuttings alive for 4 months just by keeping them in cups and a vase of water.

Before I knew anything or had ever grown cannabis I had stumbled into a Indo Expo that was next to a fly fishing expo that I had been to. It was at the end of January of 2018. There was a LED light company cutting up 2 huge cannabis plants they had there at their booth and handing out cuttings to people at the expo. I got handed several cuttings plus I was handed a whole branch that was about 3 feet long just as I was leaving. Not really knowing what to do, I put all the cuttings and the branch in cups and a vase of water. I was trying to root the cuttings in the water and they didn't really root but they all stayed alive, even the whole branch. They all stayed alive from the end of January till the beginning of May, when I finally figured out how to root the cuttings in Jiffy pods in a homemade humidity dome. I also cut up the branch into several cuttings that I rooted in Jiffy pods. I was able to plant all the rooted clones in Solo cups. I gave several of the clones away to friends and I transplanted the 6 plants that I kept for myself into 5 gal fabric pots and grew them outside to a very successful harvest by October of 2018.

2 years ago, during my 2020 grow, the wind broke a main branch off my Super Lemon Haze plant in Sept. that had a nice cola on it. It was too early to harvest it so I decided to stick it into a bottle of water and hope the trichomes on the cola matured. I had no intention of trying to root that branch. I few weeks later when I went to check the trichomes, I discovered that the branch had a ton of roots. I harvested the cola and planted the branch in a 1 gallon pot. I don't grow indoors or have any indoor set up but I kept that branch alive on a windowsill with an supplemental LED light to keep it in veg all the way until spring of 2021, when I transplanted it into a 5 gallon Smart Pot and grew it outside. It wound up growing really weird looking but it had a decent yield.

 

[cbdhemp808]

Hey @Savvage61, check out my cloning technique, in my signature link.

 

[Sativa1970]

Do you have experience with cloning? If not I would take all small lower branches from your first prune on and try to root them. It can take three days, three weeks or longer to develop roots. All depends on the mother, conditions, and the cutting you take. If they were going in the trash anyway might as well practice with them. A compost bin full of practice clones is better than lost genetics.

I run perpetual grow on primarily 10 week flower strains. Currently coming up on 25 generations of clones from from one Jamaican seed but 32 mowi wowi was my longest run.
week 1 flip 12/12
week 2 trim off 3-6 lower branches and clone. Mother is in full flower.
week 3-4 clones grow roots in cube
week 5-6 clones start to reveg and develop healthy roots under 18/6
week 7-11 Fully reverted clones growing over the 5 weeks.
week 12 Harvest mother and move the clones into "flower week one". Repeat.

For every week into flower the clone cutting needs an additional week to reveg. It also has less stored energy to develop roots so success rate drops. Take cuttings before the flip and you eliminate the revege time.