Yeah but for what purpose other then storing pollen, breeding a plant, and acquiring more seeds?
It felt good starting these from seed and watching them grow but I don't intend to do it forever.
I have a cloning tray with a built in bulb all the works and some
clonex was package deal at a grow store.
Have yet to take clones off these I definitely intended too but a friend said they weren't mature enough so it's something I'll have to learn.
Definitely excited for the genetics tho, three of them are GG4 and other 3 are Bruce B.
Because so long as it stays in veg, pollination isn't a problem. So you pop the seeds, you stick labels in it, eg. GDP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc
People usually take a cut, tag it, and put it in the cloner under 12/12, and it will show sex pretty quickly. Then you go back to the mom tent and mark the tag as male or female. Now you know the sex, and the plants can stay in veg together no problem. You can also flower only females. Some people flower them all together, and then pull the males. This leads to an inefficient run. A light covers only so many plants. You should know they are all girls when you put them to flower.
I have that same cloner set up you have. Just take a cut, keep the humidity up in the dome, and flip that flouro to 12/12. Then you know what's male and what's female without putting a whole plant into flower.
If you don't plan on collecting pollen, or having a breed tent, there isn't really a reason to collect males. But so long as they stay in veg, it doesn't matter. At least, I've never seen it matter. But in a mom tent, there is a constant cloning and culling going on. So maybe I've just never left a male in veg long enough for it to matter.
Also, you can do this when the plant is still very small, so you don't waste time potting up, wasting soil, nutes etc.
I see people put full plants into flower...topped, trained, LST, super crop, the whole 9. Then a week into flower, they have to pull it. It's a colossal waste of time. Sex it first, it's so easy and it saves a ton of work/resources.