Here's a bit of a veg space hack for ya once your confident with your cloning methods. In total my two flowering tents and veg space all put together is about the same area as a single 5x5 tent. I pull 10-14oz every 4-5 weeks, and keep as many as two dozen individual phenotypes around at a time sometimes while running simultaneously breeding projects.
Organizing an efficient perpetual cycle of clones can be about as deep of a rabbit hole as you want it to be
I also stopped reading too soon. Lmao. You can keep plants in veg under 5000k LED shop lights from Walmart over winter if that's all you're needing to do. I do that all the time. You can get full spectrum LED panels plenty good enough for that job as cheap as 25 bucks on Amazon
If theyre clones you'll be moving back outside you will definitely want to veg on 16/8. And if you can program your timer to roughly win the sunset sunrise cycle is on the summer solstice. Like whatever time of day to whatever time of day etc.
And don't put them outside till mid June or they'll reveg. If you want to keep them from revegging but put em out sooner, the 5000k shop lights from Walmart will work just fine for that too as long as you grab a handful of them and get em mounted somewhat close. But even just pulling doffusors off 100w equivalent home LEDs and putting one per plant real close will do that job according to some. I haven't tried either. I just put clones back out in June.
You can accidentally trigger reveg with as much daylight hour as 15 to 16 hours though depending on how much you've transitioned to different photo. Too. If you gradually transition from 18 to 16 just a little bit each day with a digital time or your plants will start to prepare to flower just from the transitions alone. Hour count doesn't actually matter much when transitioning clones as long as it's less then ten hours of continuous darkness. that's just the easiest way to communicate it because any cannabis plant will flower if given more than 10 hours of continuous darkness regardless of transition periods or rates
If you're cloning in the colder months and don't have a heat pad or source, you can just take a cutting and stick it in a bottle of (drinking, not spring, spring water can be alkaline and mineralized enough to hinder) water in a window sill with natural light. It'll take a few weeks but it'll root fine so long as you frequently refresh the water. A cup of tap water will work fine too. You'll have nearly 100% rooting rates if they get an hour or so of real sun a day while in clean water.
you can just keep pruning a cutting back, and removing the extra top sites to maintain growth size and maturity. But every new generation of clone will drift slightly in yield and expression, and it does add up over time. or you can just keep re cloning the main meristem and expect no performance drift or yield hit in successive generations, but youll also end up with a lot more plants then you need lol. Cloning multiple generations away from the meristem repeatedly can get a flowers yield quality into some trouble over time.
Most growers keep long time mothers and prune them back repeatedly, and take a new clone when it gets too much to manage, but i much prefer just maintaining the original main meristem because it takes up less space, but thats only because im cycling out clones to flower in other tents.
that maui clone that looks like a seed plant though, that plant is just over a year old from seed now. That clones only a couple months old though, and that is the original main meristem of the plant.
Hope theres some useful info for you in all this brain puke.
