There are two ways to start a cannabis plant — either from a seed or from a clone taken from the mother plant. They are clipped at a 45-degree angle, dipped in a rooting solution, then put into peat moss domes. Cloning is more reliable than growing from seeds and the genetics would be more consistent to each other. Seed to seed, you can get vast variations.
Mother plants live for three to six months, depending on the strength of the plant, producing 200 to 500 clones each — up to five clippings per day, so as not to stress out the plant.
Three stages to growth: seedling or clone, the vegetative stage and the flowering stage. In vegetative stage, we mimic late spring, early summer growing conditions — 18 hours of sunlight, six hours of darkness. In this stage, plants put a lot of energy growing taller and stronger, but they don't produce the buds.
In the flowering stages, lights are adjusted to 12 hours on, 12 hours off. That tells the plant that the seasons are changing, and so it starts to produce flowers, and that is where the buds come from.
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