I was supposed to top the plants and make clones last week but it didn't happen because life got in the way. There weren't even any pictures last week!
I had missed watering for a few days the previous week and the plants all recovered except for Flo 2, as can be seen before they were topped/cloned. That means no clone for Flo 2. I'll have to make and flower a clone quickly later on, once she recovers (I think that one might be female, she is on the shorter side out of the 4 Flo plants). Flo 4 was a tall boy, I say boy because I suspect that one will turn out to be male and get tossed when I flower it. It was quite a bit above the others.
I trimmed all of the plants above the third node and dipped the top portion in rooting gel then powder and put them into solo cups with slits cut into the bottom for drainage and filled with Mother Earth coco/perlite blend to which I mixed in about 25% additional perlite. The tall one got a bit of stem trimmed off and the leaf tips were trimmed off to reduce moisture loss. These clones went onto the lower shelf of the veg tent under a humidity dome with the vents closed for the first few days, then they will be opened after a few days. Ignore the runoff that hasn't been removed yet in the photos.
The original plants will be kept small as miniature mother plants, once I determine which are female.
This will be my last update for a month, since I will be out of town. My roommate will be watering the plants but I won't have any photos or other updates until week 11. There won't be a lot of activity other than rooting of the clones and the continued vegging/recovery of the little mothers. I will catch up in a month or so!
I wouldn't be sure whether a plant was male or female until putting it in flowering light cycle for a few weeks. I recently grew DJ shorts Blueberry F5 and Blue V2, which I was able to re-veg, but the two big Blueberry F5s have not come back and I am about to call them and replant, but they did produce hundreds, maybe thousands of seeds crossed with the male Blueberry F5 I grew out and then shook all over them. It's amazing how little flower you get when the plant makes seeds. But now I have enough seeds from my initial pack to grow out 50 at a time and pheno hunt for the most blueberry I can find. Gonna put them in solo cups and re-veg them after a handful of weeks in flower, and transplant to 5/7 gal pots with a fresh JMS (JADAM Microorganism Solution) to help ease the transplant and boost root growth.
Your bonsai trees look cool. I'd wanna be sure before I chop any. You could stick it in a little cardboard box with a light hanging above it on a 11on/13 off timer and you should know for sure a few weeks later