No, No, Della. You're moving too fast! Let me explain. The most likely time you'll first discover this is when you transplant scale clones from a pot to garden and discover one that didn't come up in the pot. Upon examination, you'll realize why. The next time you plant 6 clones with scales attached and only 4 come up, you a good idea of why. Your suspicions will be verified. Now, then, what I do is make a cut line across the mother scale (like a corner of it), keeping the clone and a very small piece of the scale together so as to not injure the clone and then plant or pot, whichever..
Every time you move a scale and clone together from incubation bag to a pot, you have to look and decide if you think the scale needs to be clipped or not. Most often they don't. Read my second paragraph again.
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