by Jorge Cervantes
Mother Plants
Any plant can be cloned, regardless of age or growth stage. Take clones from mother plants that are at least two months old. Plants cloned before they are two months old may develop unevenly and grow slowly. Clones taken from flowering plants root quickly and require a month or longer to revert back to vegetative growth. Such rejuvenated clones occasionally flower prematurely, and buds are more prone to pests and diseases.
Keep several vegetative mother plants for a consistent source of cloning stock. Start new mothers from seed every year. give mother plants 18-24 hours of light per day to maintain fast growth. For best results, give mothers about ten percent less nitrogen, because less nitrogen promotes rooting in clones.
A female plant will reproduce 100 percent female, all exactly like the mother. When grown in exact same environment, clones from the same mother look alike. but the same clones subjected to distinct environments in different grow rooms will often look different.