Nope, nothing like that! Sounds interesting. As for the cold temp drying, it will be 20-50F during the day, and 0-30F at night. I wonder how that will affect things…
I think it’s already been covered by all the helpful overgrowers 
, but I’ll respond as well. Definitely take them during veg. I usually do a nice trim a week or two before flower on bushy plants, and use all the side branches that are long but not really “tops” as my clones. You can also take directly from the tops as well, but that will impact your yield unless you let them veg up another 2 weeks after cloning tops.
There are lots of search results for cloning here, so search around a little bit if you need help. I’ve used all the methods, and for me the easiest (I’m lazy) is using fresh aloe (powder mixed with water to make a thick paste would work too) as the rooting hormone and solo cups of my normal recycled dirt mix. Cut, label, smear with aloe leaf like you would a sunburn, use a pencil to make a hole in moist cup of dirt, put clone in, seal dirt at top, stick under very low 24/0 or 20/4 light, keep warm and have some air movement, call it good. I only water the dirt with a misting sprayer when it looks dry and don’t spray the leaves anymore because it didn’t seem to help. I don’t get 100% but I always take multiple clones from each plant and usually don’t care if I lose some.
My IPM spray can be found via this link and description: Seeds From Friends - #229 by nube
Yep, this is good weed for that. You won’t find too many phenos that get you blasted high, but in social situations do you want to smoke and have everybody nodding off like a bunch of opioid addicts? Doesn’t sound like party weed to me…
I don’t understand this. Are you contending that, once you take clones, the clones don’t mature beyond the age at which you took them no matter how long they’re alive? I’ve never heard that before…and I’m not sure how that could be the case? Would you please expand on that a little bit? My experience is that clones taking in veg still mature and develop flowers when flipped, and conversely, clones taken in flower can still reveg and root and produce new growth.
