MadScience
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I've been growing from locally developed seed for years and I've become rather tired of the whole sexing young plants rigmarole. So I've started experimenting with keeping a healthy set of female plants growing for an extended period of time in vegetative state for clone clippings every three months or so.
I haven't had much luck keeping the mothers healthy though. I'm suffering deficiencies, an occasional reflower problem, and generally a lack of healthy vegetative growth.
I've also noticed that clones tend to stretch far less during the normal veg to flower phase, as a result producing plants that produce less bud.
So I'm curious, is anyone else out there doing the same? What kind of environment do you keep the your clone source plants in? What set up do you use? What kind of nutes?
I have no problems keeping house plants growing for years, so I do not understand why keeping a weed growing over an extended period is so hard.
My current clone mother grow box is really simple - 2x2x4 foot box, good ventilation, a good daylight spectrum cfl on top, light on watering and nutes with an emphasis on N, temps in the box are in good shape. Soil pot, 4 gallons for all plants.
Suggestions / tips / setup suggestions very welcome, I'd really like to make this work.
I haven't had much luck keeping the mothers healthy though. I'm suffering deficiencies, an occasional reflower problem, and generally a lack of healthy vegetative growth.
I've also noticed that clones tend to stretch far less during the normal veg to flower phase, as a result producing plants that produce less bud.
So I'm curious, is anyone else out there doing the same? What kind of environment do you keep the your clone source plants in? What set up do you use? What kind of nutes?
I have no problems keeping house plants growing for years, so I do not understand why keeping a weed growing over an extended period is so hard.
My current clone mother grow box is really simple - 2x2x4 foot box, good ventilation, a good daylight spectrum cfl on top, light on watering and nutes with an emphasis on N, temps in the box are in good shape. Soil pot, 4 gallons for all plants.
Suggestions / tips / setup suggestions very welcome, I'd really like to make this work.