Cuttings from Auto flowering plants, is it possible?

[Bday Prang]

Just wondering if one can successfully take cuttings from auto flowering plants, and grow them to maturity,  or will they start flowering when they reach the same age as the "mother" plant

[BritManToo]

No you can't all cuttings will follow the same date as the original.

[Bday Prang]

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

No you can't all cuttings will follow the same date as the original.

thanks for confirming that.   I read somewhere that a huge amount of ornamental bamboo originates from the same "mother" and a whole lot of people in the UK where whinging that their costly yet new and ostensibly young  plants had unexpectedly died (of old age basically)

[SamuiGrower]

And, when crossing/hybridizing C. Ruderalis (autoflowers), the dominant autoflower trait (day neutral flowering) becomes recessive, appearing in only 25% of the crosses (autoflower x autoflower). If crossing with a photoperiod plant, the autoflower trait (day neutral) is lost. It essentially takes 5-6 crosses to stabilize the autoflowering trait.

 

Autoflower strains are extremely fickle and unpredictable in the best of environments. The slightest bit of stress and they will flower unpredictably with minimal yields.

[ChaiyaTH]

Why would you cut a autoflower to begin with... The entire purpose of auto flower is to have that work sorted upfront lmao. Don't tell me you dry you weed in a microwave and sell it without being cured properly too...

 

If you want to 'speed things up' you simply grow normal seeds and then make cutlings you pre-grow seperate from the main grow room.

[Bday Prang]

Well a perfectly simple innocent and honest question received a perfect answer (as usual) from @BritManToo and then another slightly more technical response which was also gratefully received from @SamuiGrower  Exactly what this forum was intended for Thanks for the information  guys,

 

And then there was the third response

 

2 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Why would you cut a autoflower to begin with... The entire purpose of auto flower is to have that work sorted upfront lmao. Don't tell me you dry you weed in a microwave and sell it without being cured properly too...

 

If you want to 'speed things up' you simply grow normal seeds and then make cutlings you pre-grow seperate from the main grow room.

 

By the end of the first line he was "lmao"    The second line ws nothing other than derogatory and  antagonistic 

and the third line was probably about as condescending as he could manage. All of it was completely off topic. Personally I can't think what would motivate anybody to post a comment like that other than a very feeble attempt at trolling,  What do other members think?   

 

[BritManToo]

48 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

What do other members think?   

To be fair, the advice about using normal seeds was appropriate.

After being dissatisfied with the results from autoflowers, (ratio of success to failure about 1:1 and never a large enough crop) I started using feminised seeds all the time. In Thailand you didn't really need to worry about day/night hours as the plants always flowered when they were big enough, and I could take 20 cuttings from just 1 planted seed, so way cheaper than autos and huge crops (success to failure around 10:1.

 

I also found it pointless to grow anything except feminised, as the seeds with males seemed to predominate and it just wasn't worth the waste of my time an resources to grow essentially useless plants.

 

Off topic,

Fis High offered me Tropicana Cherry this morning for 5bht/gm, so I'm trying 50g for 299 inc (COD). Thought the American Pie looked nice at 7bht/gm but I tend to stick with 70percent Indica (or more).