How to clone your weed plants? | Groplanner Tips

Plant Cloning is fun. People have done this for thousands of years. Any seasoned, as well as new gardeners, should always at least clone plants once.

During the cloning and seedling stage, a plant's entire life is shaped. Grow lights are one of the most important aspects of your grow room, and thus growers should ensure clones and seedlings are being given ideal lighting during this early phase. Professional growers generally utilize a separate lighting system for cloning, vegetating, and flowering, to ensure optimal lighting conditions for each phase. In this post, We will introduce cannabis cloning and how to use Groplanner grow lights for your cannabis cloning.

What is a cannabis “clone?”

Cloning cannabis is the process of making a smaller copy of a specific cannabis plant. Basically, a clone is a little piece of plant that has been cut off (a “cutting”) from a parent plant and then given the opportunity to make roots of its own. Cannabis clones are cuttings from the same marijuana plant – these cuttings make roots of their own and grow into an identical plant as the “mother!” Each cannabis clone has the same genes and is a genetic copy of its mother. That means if the mother of the clone is a female, you are guaranteed that all the clones taken from that cannabis plant will be female, too.

What’s Great About Growing Cannabis Clones?

How To Take a Cannabis Clone?

Before anything, clean and disinfect all your tools, and get everything ready, including setting out everything mentioned in the “What is Needed to Clone Cannabis” section.With gloves, as infection can occur on the exposed sections of the trimming. Take clones from “mother” cannabis plants – if the leaves are alternating (not connecting at the exact same part of the stem) the plant is ready to clone. Here’s an example of a marijuana stem with alternating leaves/nodes, perfect for cloning. Soak your starter cubes for a couple of minutes in the water. You don’t need to soak them for days, a few minutes is fine. Choose a spot where there is new branching and a new top, and cut a little bit below that. Just firmly grab the new growth and cut the branch away at a 45-degree angle. New cuttings should be 5-8 inches (10-20 cm) long. 

When possible, take clones from vigorous growth tips from the lower half of your plant, as they have more rooting hormones than branches toward the top and will grow roots faster. However, clones taken from any part of the plant will work as long as they have a nice growth tip at the end. Basically, you just want to cut away a small part of the plant. The roots will grow out of the “cut” you made, and the rest of the cutting will start growing into an individual plant. Trim off any huge lower leaves or node points from the new cutting and clip the top fan leaves if they’re big. Clipping the leaves helps prevent the weed clone from “over-exerting” itself trying to turn light into food, when the plant should be focused on roots. You can take cannabis clones using just plain water, and your cuttings will make roots just sitting in the water that way. Some growers use rooting hormones and other cloning products to help the plant root faster. Make sure you coat the entire bottom of the cutting, so that all the parts of the clone that get put into your starter cube is covered in gel. Place the new clone into a moistened starter cube, and press around the bottom to make sure everything is sealed and no air can get to the rooting area.

When you recreate the right conditions, you don’t need a cloner or humidity dome, yet these types of devices make successful cloning and root growth happen practically by itself.

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