Clone vs Clone - pre-harvest
Below follows the history of these Snowcap sisters
On 11/05/15, I decided to make a test.
My premise for Snow Queen was that a newly planted rooted clone will look better in 30 days than a woody old clone held too long in a 1-liter pot. Here are old and newly planted clones side-by-side. It's a competition!
On 11/23/15, the new clone looks like it won't be quite filling the pot at 30 days old (yes my early veg is slow). However the competition is for which one looks better for transplanting.
4 month old clone vs clone just 18 days from planting.
On 11/29/15,
The 'Young clone' was rooted and had been in a 4" pot for about 3 weeks.
The 'Old clone' was rooted and had been in a 4" pot for about 3 months.
I transplanted the young clone and the old clone into the same pot to share the same grow environment.
My concern was that a plant kept 'too long' in a 4" pot became under-nourished, root-bound, and lost stem flexibility.
My guess was that a young, more vibrant plant would eventually outperform a plant that had been stunted in early veg.
12/21/15, Notice that both clones grew too leggy - I did no training, partly in my desire to avoid skewing the side-by-side comparison.
Young leaf vs New leaf - In a surprise to me, the upper growth of both clones are similar in size and health.
Looking forward to a day I may want to actually harvest some bud, I decided I could no longer wait to train and decided to supercrop to encourage branching. The top of the old clone snapped rather than bent.
01/05/16, Snowcap clone vs clone experiment from the same mother.
The old clone on the left (4 months in a small pot) looks almost as good as the young clone (1 month in a small pot.) The old clone has it's direct rooted top growing to help out with yield. The young clone has a thick, green stalk.[/QUOTE]
01/26/16, Graduation Day
The old and new clones of Sno Queen were moved from Late Veg to the Flowering Room.
The rooted top of the old clone was too short to be worth flowering, and I don't have an available large pot, so I topped the top and stuck her in the cloner until I have a spot for her.
The above ground growth is similar, with the old clone having a edge before I topped her. My theory was that the new clone would be significantly outgrowing the old clone by now. I was wrong. The most important comparison is in the harvested buds. Time will tell.
Old Clone (left - vegged many weeks in a small pot while rootbound) vs New Clone (same mother, better vegging in a small pot)
The new clone trunk is green and fatter than a bic pen.
The old clone trunk is less green and thinner than a bic pen. The smaller branch looks like the trunk used to appear.
On 03/10/16, 44 days in the flowering room (under 11/13 600W HPS light)
The old clone is on the right and seems to have 20-30% less bud mass
After 44 days in the flowering room, the trichomes are mostly cloudy. I am tempted to harvest Saturday morning.
since very shortly after I joined. I miss him. 
The goal has been reached. Job well done 
