The Art Of Cloning
Cloning cannabis plants is becoming increasingly popular as more people begin to recognize the health benefits of medical marijuana. As the population continues to age, more of us will turn to alternative medicine and one alternative option for achieving our desired results has become to clone our favorite plants.
Cloning is basically a procedure that takes the reproductive tissue from female seed to produce another, identical, mature plant. Though it is very possible to grow clone plants from regular or feminized seed, the chances of actually having a healthy clone are higher with regular female seed than feminized seed. This is primarily because a woman is able to produce and store more reproductive tissue than a man can, making it much easier to produce and store more clones of a plant.
Regular seed production is also much more environmentally friendly than feminizing seed production because feminized seed plants often end up being cross-bred with other types of cannabis, which in turn only adds to their environmental impact. Cloning a plant, therefore, is not only a better option for preserving the plant for future use, but it is also better for the environment. This, of course, does not mean that cloning a regular cannabis plant would be possible in the absence of a feminized variety; it is simply not likely to be possible for such a large variety.
Marijuana is not the only type of plant that can be cloned successfully. The same holds true for citrus, tomatoes, and many other fruits and vegetables. In fact, it is possible to clone even grapes! There are a few different methods to cloning citrus plants, but all require the same basic components: a female reproductive tissue (seed) that has not already been used by a cloned plant in its life cycle, a male reproductive tissue (sperm) from a parent plant that has already been used by a cloned plant, and a host of beneficial bacteria and fungi.
In order to produce a viable clone, it is important that the female reproductive tissue is in the best of its best fertile conditions. This means it should be in its most natural state, that it should not have any external wounds, and it should be in its best growing condition. Any seeds that are left over from the production process can then be used to produce a new cloned plant. In order to cultivate the best quality of fertile condition, it is also necessary to grow a healthy number of the plants in order to provide nutrients to both the plant that is being cloned and the growing parent plants.
Growing the cloned plants on their own is also crucial in producing the highest quality. It is important that both plants be kept separate, though they can still be interspersed, since they will naturally mix together when exposed to each other for a certain period of time.
Cloning cannabis, though, is probably the easiest way to begin growing your own marijuana. The amount of work required to grow your first cloned plant is quite minimal compared to feminizing seed, and the process is much less time consuming. The downside, however, is the expense involved in producing the seed and storing it until you are ready to harvest the plants.
Marijuana is one of the most expensive forms of medicine, and it is quite possible that in the future, this form of cultivation may become illegal. But if you are an experienced grower, you may well see a need for the ability to grow marijuana for personal use.
A regular seed can be used for many different reasons, and as with most of the other types of regular seed, it is quite possible to clone this seed and use it to produce clones of several of your favorite herbs and spices. Many growers prefer to use these seeds instead of feminizing seed so that they can make larger amounts of their favorite seeds without having to keep a single plant alive. A growing supply of these seedlings allows the cultivator to grow as many different varieties of plants as they want, all from the same single plant.
However, there is more to cloning a seed than just using it as a regular seed. You need to culture the seed in order for the plant to grow into a fully viable clone. Cultivating your seedlings involves taking a plant and removing the fertile seed from the plant and placing it into another plant, and putting the seed back into the original plant.
This process allows the reproductive tissue of the former plant to be used to reproduce the cloned plant. As the cloned plant matures and begins to produce seeds, it is the same type of reproductive tissue that is replanted, so that the plant has a second set of leaves and shoots. This way, you can make a new crop of seeds and continue growing the same type of plants all year round.