Monster Cropped Mandarin Haze

MagicMikesMeds These clones were taken from my Mandarin Hayes plant which was four weeks into flower in a technique known as “Monster Cropping.” The benefit of the technique is that it creates naturally branchy plants with lots of offshoots. The clones are taken at the end of Week 4 of flower, and the clippings I take are any buds that don’t look like they’ll either make the canopy, or ones that will be insubstantial final buds. The process of cloning while reverting the clone back to the vegetative light cycle has a noticeable effect on the final plant. While the genetics will be identical to the plant in which the clone wasn’t taken, the plant will require significantly less training to get to a flat bushy plant. I monster cropped clones last year and the resulting plants were “Monsterous” compared to their mothers, so am I greatly anticipating filling my 5x5 with 4 of the finest cuts from this cloning run.

MagicMikesMeds The Monster Cropped clones took about a week to start showing roots. The pictures in this week journal have been taken throughout the 2nd week in the cloner. I currently have 1 Mandarin Haze, 2 Jack 47’s, & 1 Skunk Diesel in my garden but I only took clones from the Jack 47 & the Mandarin Haze. All of the red discs have Mandarin Haze, and at this point there isn’t only 1 remaining Jack 47 which has a blue disc with a “J” on it. I will only be running the Mandarin Haze again, but took the other clones as insurance. Clones are looking great overall and I should easily have 4 nice Monster Cropped Clones to fill my 5x5

MagicMikesMeds Unfortunately I decided to 86 my monster cropped Mandarin Haze plants because I had some heat issues which lead to the onset of root rot. I could have worked to save them, but I had a 5 pack of genetics waiting to be grown. It was a shame because the Mandarin Haze plant in which the clones were taken yielded me 410 grams of Grade A flower with zero larf. I most certainly will be growing this strain again.