Looking after ur Ol'Lady

[Guest weekprik]

only on bush weed, never tried it on strain weed, so its pretty hard??

 

what do you do? keep a mother for every strain??

what are the requirements of a mother?

[lokm8]

nice setup Pipeman.

Thnx for info guys. Looks like its a walk in the park :D

 

 

 

lok

[Luke Skywalker]

weekprik Posted on Jun 5 2003, 10:09 AM

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only on bush weed, never tried it on strain weed, so its pretty hard??

 

what do you do? keep a mother for every strain??

what are the requirements of a mother? 

 

Yes, you'll have to keep at least one mother of every strain you plan to grow out in clones. If your only growing in a small area, and your not interested in a veritable menagerie of strains, then one or two mothers of quality strains, which you've chosen out of a bunch of seedlings, preferably, should do you fine. If you are interested in having more than two strains going at a time, then you would have to have a mothering room to house the various strains you'll take clones from.

 

Motherplants, according to those who know about this the best, are fairly easy to keep and maintain at a small height, just by taking off more clones than you need, or pruning. Of course, don't prune too much, but I think that tom may be able to advise. Whitecluster also says he root-prunes his bubbler mums, and this is probably a good idea if you intend to keep them long term. But if you're only keeping one mother for each grow, then you can keep a clone from each batch and make that the new mother to the next one later, if you like. Tom uses compact flouros, and these will provide enough of the right kinds of light to keep them growing and happy, if not tearing the roof out in massive growth. But really, your after clones, not buds, so the plants can be quite small and still effective.

 

Much as I'd love to say that taking clones a f/night before harvest will provide a good, perpetual grow, I'm sorry, but all evidence, including my own personal experience, says that this is not an efficient way to do this. It may even be almost impossible, depending on the strain of course. Some will take better than others, but most have about a half-way through flowering mark, where the chance of clones striking roots starts dropping off noticeably. I'm not sure exactly why, but thems the breaks, unfortunately. You could of course, set up so you are taking clones about 3 or 4 weeks into flowering, (depending on strain) and them keep them vegging under a flouro set up until the first plants are done, then move them in.... This would definitely work, I've seen some threads on this, but it requires good timing. You could also stimulate the plants to re-veg and produce new shoots after harvest, just leave a few shoots and leaves on the base, and then switch the lights back up to 18/6. After a week or two you'll have enough shoots, of the right size for cloning, and after they've rooted you could throw out the old mothers and concentrate on the new clones.

 

All of these ideas have pros and cons, and these aren't the only ways to set up a perpetual harvest, no-sirree. There are certainly going to be more posts by others on this subject, so take it all in and decide what suits you best. Hope this helps mate.

 

p.s. You've mentioned that you've cloned a leaf? Have any pics of this? Or a description of the method? Most interesting indeed....

[nouseforaname]

hey,

Wouldnt advise cloning so late into flower unless they are to go back to flower. Reveggin mums isnt a good idea, if strain preservation is the main cocern.. Main crown and next few top nodes are cloned for new mums... grown out till a foot or so tall and then chosen on vigour/size etc...

The mums should be grown under

5(light rail)-20watts of mh or compact fluro for slowish growth..

20-40 mh for fast turnovers

Nutrients are kept at a low- med level and flushed for a week before cloning...

 

If they are grown in soil/perlite/cocoetc they can be unpotted shaken off and then repotted into same size pot, a few days shock is seen before restablishing... bonsai effects are seen from this