I decided to clone my keeper of Unicorn Meat from Thug Pug Genetics. I’ve never cloned from a clone before and that’s what I had to do here.
Backstory:
I grew out the original clone and she went to flower. I was really impressed with the original plant and had made the clone but i flowered the clone and later realized i should of kept it around in a veg state to make more clones or seed. So i clipped a flowered clone and after about a month i started seeing it reveg. I grew it out for about two months and took some new clones from it. I am keeping the mother (clone of a clone) and have taken new clones from her. I’ve got no idea how these clones of clones of clones will turn out but they are still pretty vigorous and some have started taking to their new pots. I’m going to try and pack my tent with them and for the first run i’ll try and reverse a clone to make some pollen. I’ll post the original mom so you can get an idea of what I’m hoping to get bud wise out of these clones.
Hey @Itslegalnow nice to meet you! I am a huge thug pug fan and that unicorn meat plant looks insane!
I read you can take a clone of a clone “forever”.
I wouldnt know because i never done it but my go to guy @JoeCrowe said he did it for something crazy like 100 generations and didnt notice any negative effects.
Good luck with your reversal! Ill be pulling up a chair on this one.
Good luck dude. My good friend reveg’d his coveted Gary Peyton cut and has been growing crazy nice plants for years with cuts of cuts of cuts of those cuts.
Crazy how many years I have believed clones could only be taken for so long before they weren’t any good. Glad to know what i thought I knew was wrong.
Not much to report but I will say that two clones were probably not ready to leave the cloner and get into the soil. They are probably not going to make it so i put them outside so i wouldn’t have to look at them anymore. I might have some replacement clones in a few days. Currently they’re hanging out in the kitchen in coco coir. I’ll mention that the clone mama has a bit of a Thrip issue right now and she gave the clones a bit of it as well. I have some lost coast coming in the mail and have used some insect soap spray as well. Hopefully they’ll all kick the bugs in the next couple of weeks.
Here’s the remaining gals. Notice the ugly little runt PBB. I hope to save it but we shall see. If i do great, if not i still have the main plant flowering outside so i’ll get something regardless.
So I stunted the plants a bit but they’re starting to bounce back. I gave them too much nutrients. I have also been battling some persistent thrips that seem to go away and come back a week or so later. That caused me to spray them with an insecticide soap about once every three days for about three spray sessions. I left the lights on which caused burning. So anyway, the lesson is i need to take it easy and take my time and not rush it all. Whenever i grow organic i get i end up with a gnat infestation. I use sticky traps but they always come back. If anyone has a good soil and nutrients recommendation for organic growing without gnats i’d love to hear it. Here are the plants, not much growth since last time but i hope they are on the mend.
I started thinking about something and wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. I was thinking about how i would go about reversing a clone of one of these Unicorn Meats. I have two tents and a yard to work with.
I thought i might take one clone and reverse it. I would cull the current mother plant to make room for breeding. I would take two other clones to be used for seed makers and put them in with the reversed plant. One of the unicorn meat clones would potentially become a new mother.
I have two seedlings of Masterpiece that i would like to grow out and also reverse one of them at a later date. I was thinking i would veg those and the other unicorns while i flowered and seeded the three Unicorn clones. I think it’s just going to be timing.
Option A:
I was thinking I’ll do the cull and move and start sts spray in two weeks then flip those three breeding plants at the same time the week after. I’ll then flower those three out together. I estimate then my other plants would veg for a total of about 12 weeks max but potentially as little as 10 weeks. I think this would give the seeded plants enough time to finish seeding. It seemed my seeded plants of past grows needed a full extra month past my normal harvest times to create quality seeds.
Option B:
Another idea is to put outside the seeding plants and leave them outside after letting pollenate in one of the tents for a month or so. I could keep the rain off them with a patio umbrella and the temps only get to 35-40 at night until mid December. This would allow me to keep a much shorter veg time which is ideal because this pheno has long nod spacing.
If you read all this and have a suggestion for something different or like one or the other option better, let me know.
The mother had thrips so i sprayed her and i’ve been spraying the clones here and there. Not sure if the chemicals leave a residue or if this is Thrips of something else. Any guesses?
Hey man plants look good! I hope you get the thirps knocked back for good. Bugs can be a huge pain in the ass in the garden. Bug infestation is a huge grow fear of mine.
Still slow growing, i should have mixed the soil up with coco and made it a bit more aerated to get the roots more oxygen. Ok i’ve made a note of it and will be giving them all more soil with perlite and coco in the next few weeks. That should help with flowering. I’ll probably give them a bit of flowering nutrients as i think they may need some phosphorus. Here they are today
