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Clones have numerous benefits for the home grower. They'll hasten your growing cycles. They'll predetermine sex of the plant, they'll preserve the exact strain and they'll save you money. To appreciate the benefits of medical marijuana clones more, let us discuss them one by one.

SPEEDING UP GROWING CYCLES

By nature, marijuana often takes four or five months, or even more to mature. Add another couple of weeks for harvesting, drying and curing and you could find yourself limited to two crops per year. But if you use hydroponics, however, growing cycles can be lessened to 3 months; so one year would give you at least 4 crops, or at most 6, if you alternate 2 grow areas). With this method, you will obviously produce more medical marijuana; but on top of that, you'll have less expenses for electricity and nutrients per crop as well.

PREDETERMINING THE SEX OF THE MARIJUANA PLANT

Starting with clones is the only guaranteed way of producing female plants. Otherwise, natural law divides your odds to 50/50 mix of male and female plants. If you like, you can use marijuana strains that are considered as feminized seeds - these claim to produce 70% females. Don't forget, not only will male marijuana plants have considerably less medical effect for the patient, but if left in place, they will weaken the medical potency of the female plants through pollination (since the female plant turns its energy into producing seeds rather than flowers (buds). We suggest starting with medical marijuana clones. It's a fail-safe and guaranteed way to have 100% females.

PRESERVING THE EXACT STRAIN

Clones, which are basically a small cutting of a marijuana plant that is placed in a block of rock wool, are as the name clone suggests, an exact replica of the original plant. In theory, once you find a strain of marijuana you like, and locate a clone for this strain, you can grow the same plant over and over again forever. The real advantage here is that there are several times when your pharmacy is out of stock of your favorite strain. Rather than depending on the pharmacy flowering cycle, you can guarantee yourself a fixed supply of your favorite medicine.

SAVING MONEY BY GROWING YOUR OWN MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Complete Hydroponic Starter Kits, including grow tent, cost approximately $400 from Stealth Hydroponics. (We recommend this hydroponic growing system for medical marijuana clones because it includes everything, is easy to setup, simple to use, and works.) While these kits normally have "space" for six plants in their reservoir setup, our suggestion is to grow 3 plants. Even at a low growing rate of three crops per year, with each plant yielding 2 ounces of medicine, you will end up growing around $4000 worth of medicine, at pharmacy prices, yearly. Add in electrical and nutrient costs and you will raise the total cost of your yearly harvest to between $600 and $750 while still enjoying at least $4000 worth of buds.