Learning how to grow weed would not be complete without a lesson and some hands-on experience on cultivating cannabis clones. Cloning marijuana refers to the process wherein a replica of a plant is taken from a mother plant with ideal features.
There are many ways to clone marijuana but the most common method is by using cuttings which are offshoots of the original weeds.
Growing marijuana clones has many advantages.
It’s widely accepted that clones grow faster and produce better buds than weeds grown through traditional means. Clones also inherit 100% of a mother plant’s positive genes. A mother plant with immunity from pests and resilience against certain diseases is a good candidate for cloning.
There’s virtually no limit to the number of clones a weed farmer can produce from one mother plant. By keeping a healthy mother in perpetual a vegetative state, you can grow big numbers of marijuana plants at a time.
And finally, clones take less time to grow because they start from cuttings and not from seeds.
However, there are also some challenges when it comes to growing clones. For example, autoflowering cannabis cannot be clones because of their properties and the selection of marijuana plants that can be cloned is minimal due to the fact that pure breeds of cannabis are the ones which can really be clones.
This grow journal sets out to grow Cookies Kush cannabis strain using clones.
Cookies Kush is moderately difficult to cultivate. You should have enough knowledge and past experience in growing cannabis before considering this strain for a successful cultivation.
This marijuana strain can be grown indoors or in a greenhouse as long as the ideal conditions are observed. When grow outdoors, the Cookies Kush loves a temperate and hot climate.
Flowering time can vary from 56 to 62 days indoors. Outdoors, Cookies Kush flower by the third to fourth week of September.
Grower: illegalsmile
Yield: 78 grams
Location: USA
May 22nd
These two Cookies Kush clones were taken from a mother with 70% indica and 30% sativa strains. Other grow details are as follows:
- Medium: Jiffy Organic Starting Mix
- Container: 5-gallon hardware store buckets
- Light: Vegetating with Viparspectra 300W LED
- Nutes: General Hydroponics Flora Micro/Grow/Bloom and CalMag as needed
- Grow space: Closet
In the beginning, the soil pH is 6.9, temperatures range 77 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit, room humidity 39%.
These girls have been cut with a root hormone added then put in soil for about 3 weeks. They were taken from their mom a week before she went into flower. So far, the biggest problem is keeping the pH in check.
May 27th
5 days in and they are latching on strong with good growth. Humidity is up over 50% consistently. They also received a small dose of 1ml/gal of microbe life, General Hydroponic’s All in One and General Hydroponics Flora Micro.
May 30th
It’s Day 9. No significant changes yet but the room humidity is in the 40s. Temperature holds steadily around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. They haven’t received any water since the last time.
June 5th
2 weeks after being taking root, it looks like the girls are enjoying the environment. You can see they’ve put out a lot of leaves. All you need to do is to keep them happy until they finish the vegetative stage.
June 10th
19 days in and they’re thriving with temperature 84 degrees Fahrenheit, room humidity 50%, and pH 6.8.
The plant on the left had two prominent branches so the top of both branches were FIM-ed. The girl on the right was topped. The branches of both ladies were tied down for a little LST. They look ugly now but they should be beautiful enough in a few days.
June 13th
Temperature has been hovering around 87 degrees F, with room humidity of 40%, and pH 7.0. Gave them some watering with some nutes (Flora, Micro, Flora Grow, and CalMag). They recovered quickly from their training.
The main branch of the plant on the right were broken and you can see a close-up of the knots in the second photo.
June 18th
The ladies are just taking all the abuse thrown their way like a champ. Some more supercropping was done to even out the growth. They were both fed today with the same nutes then added a touch of GH All-in-One.
Temperatures are stable at 83 degrees F, pH 6.9 to 7.0, and room humidity is about 40%.
June 24th
Nothing too exciting happening at the moment. They were watered yesterday with full strength nutes at a ratio for pre-flowering. The bottom quarter of both plants were defoliated and took away some very weak growth in other parts.
A new trestle netting was installed on top of the, and will be flipping to 12/12 light cycle in another 10 days or so.
June 25th
Last night, the girls were tied down and got more even growth. This will hopefully be the last of the training until they reach the screen. The center is wide open at the moment but they will fill in soon enough.
June 28th
These girls were pushed to their limits. Overwatered and overnuted, both girls have stunted growths and developed some burn on the leaves. There was a lack of growth for the past couple of days. Problems have been addressed and corrected to the best of the grower’s skill.
June 29th
In just 24 hours, the girls are finally healing and showing new growth.
June 30th
Got rid of most of the leaves blocking the light. Once they do some vertical growth, they’ll flip to flower. Their tops haven’t even reached the screen yet.
July 5th
Pistils have made their appearance. This is one spot of about 15 different sites which are forming.
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