How to Successfully Clone (Take Cuttings from) Cannabis?
Growing plants can be a complex process, especially when caring for medicinal cannabis plants. Cultivation can be approached in two ways: growing from seeds or from so-called clones, also known as "cuttings". In today's article, we'll look at how to successfully create these cuttings and care for them. Let's get started...
A Bit of Theory: What Does Cannabis Cloning Involve?
As we've already learned, plant cloning is a completely common method of plant propagation, and it's not just limited to growers of technical or medicinal cannabis. It is also widely used in breeding specific varieties, as cloning offers a number of significant advantages, which we'll discuss shortly.
Cloning, or also cutting, represents a very effective way to optimize and essentially simplify the cultivation process. Cutting allows growers or plant breeders to preserve and transfer specific properties of a particular plant.
To create a cutting, a strong mother plant with a good genetic foundation is needed. As the name suggests - these so-called "clones" retain all the properties of the original plant, cloning them so that a plant with a specific genetic makeup, with its strengths and potential weaknesses, grows again and again.
That was a few introductory words, and now let's look at some pros and cons that will shed more light on the topic of cannabis (or plant) cloning...
Cannabis clones transplanted into growing medium
Advantages of Cannabis Plant Cloning
If we were to compare growing medicinal cannabis from seeds and cloning specific plants, cutting can offer quite a few positives that you definitely shouldn't overlook.
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