What Is A Clone?
What Is A Clone?
Cannabis clones are an easy way to fast-track your cannabis garden without the hassle of growing weed seeds. They are an exact clone of a sexually mature female plant, allowing you to skip the guesswork and get the same yield, flavor, potency, and other traits as the mother plant.
Clones are created by cutting a piece of the mother plant and placing it into a medium, allowing it to produce roots and become a completely new, sexually mature plant ready for flowering.
The Benefits of Cannabis Clones
- Ultra-fast harvest times
- Skip the germination, vegetative and sexing phases
- Never grow males again (clones are female only)
- Cannabis cuttings (clones) are cheaper than seeds
- Cannabis clones can be shipped with ease in Canada
- Clones are a genetic copy of the mother
The Disadvantages of Growing Marijuana Seeds
- The Cannabis Seedling Phase
- In the natural world, cannabis plants begin from seed like most other plants.
- In general, it takes 4-10-days for seedlings to emerge from the seed. After this, cannabis plants remain in the seedling phase for 2-3 weeks.
- The Cannabis Vegetative Phase
- After the seedling phase, cannabis plants switch to the vegetative phase. This period lasts 3 to 18 weeks and accounts for most root and shoot growth.
- The Cannabis Sexing Phase
- After months of hard work, your marijuana plants will show their sex because it’s now sexually mature. However, cannabis cultivators only look for females, as females produce cannabis flowers.
- If your cannabis plant is a male — you just wasted months of time, money, and effort on a lost cause. In other words, the chance of cannabis seeds being male or female is 50/50 — a risk you shouldn’t take.
- Extreme Variation Among Cannabis Seeds
- Lastly, all seeds exhibit different phenotypes.
- Although the seeds may be the same strain (genotype) — they exhibit different traits, such as growth difficulty, yield, aroma, flavor, and potency. After 6-months of growing a single cannabis plant, you may find the results lacking and not what you expected.
