Looking after ur Ol'Lady

[lokm8]

hi guys

 

Im curious as to how hard it is to keep mothers around for continuing cloning (indoors).

I gather that it depends on the strain and so on..

Just wonna get a basic idea of how big they must be before you decide to isolate her, what light intensity they need, and any other basic principles. (eg.nutes). Are most mum's a pain in the arse or not fussy plants that keep producing clone after clone ?

Cheers

 

 

Lok

[Guest weekprik]

best thing to go is grow it for buds and when you harvest leave a fair bit of leaf behind, then take the plant and put it in your motherroom, and put the lights back to 24/0, it will start producing leaf and lats again, just keep it short by taking clones even if you dont need them, as this will keep it small.

 

but why keep a motherplant at all??

 

all i do is 2 weeks before harvest take some clones and by the time the harvest is dont the clones are rooted and ready to go in the system.

[Tom]

Hey lokm8, there's a link to my mother/clone set-up in my signature.

 

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[Mr Putard]

just keep it short by taking clones even if you dont need them, as this will keep it small.

this will eventually make new growth really small..like leaves about a cm big.. does anybody make clones with leaves this small? and how does it go with really small leaves compared to fuller sized ones?

[pipeman]

Mothers can be kept in small pots with your medium of choice. A few compact fluoros is all you need for light depending on area. They will need periodic root pruning to prevent becoming rootbound. Go lean on the nutes obviously.

 

I currently have my mothers in 150mm round pots in Searles premium potting mix with three 18W compact fluoros. Water once a week or whenever I see the leaves start to droop. No nutes required. So far no problems, but I've only had them a couple of months or so.

[Guest weekprik]

those are mother plants?? pretty skinny, what strains

 

also I was thinking of not having motherplants-

 

I was going to take clones 2 weeks before harvest and by harvest time they are ready to replace the harvested one,

 

what benefit would mother plants give??

[pipeman]

all the same strain. Verry Berry No.2. I'm still testing the weed to see which I will keep as mother.

 

Mother plants are good if you want to keep multiple strains and don't want to grow every one every crop, just keep them as mothers until you want to flower out some clones. If you only have 2 or 3 strains and grow them out every crop I suppose there is no point having mothers. Every crop you could clone halfway through and have them vegged by the time the first lot was finished. Although if something stuffs up and you lose your crop before you get to clone it could be a hassle.

[Luke Skywalker]

Weekprik, have you managed to get a good success rate cloning off plants 6 or more weeks into flowering? Because I tried, and it was a total cluster-f*$#@. Every clone passed, and this was despite my best attention. And using a tried and true method, too... I think mothers are definitely the way to go. That's why we keep them, because cloning out late flowering plants is so f#$@$ difficult...

 

Not meaning to be harsh or anything, just thought I'd add that...

[Guest weekprik]

yeah, its difficult but all ya gotta do is scarify the stalk,

 

Hell Ive even had a leaf grow ok after i plucked it and tried cloning it ,

[Luke Skywalker]

If you've done it, then well done, but don't get your hopes up....