Mother plants

[mikevyo]

Hello, I have some questions about mommy plants

first off....too keep a constant cycle of about 12-14 female clones flowering...how many mother plants would I need?

would i be able to get enough clones off 1 mother plant to have a constant cycle?

also, what kind of light should the mother plant be kept under...how long can a mother plant last, and how do you keep the plant from growing monsterous from constantly being in a veg state. I cant let her get any higher than 4 feet

[ganja_smoker]

you can get more than that many clones off of a single plant.

I keep my mother and clones under fluorescent light. 18 hours of light a day to keep it in vegetative growth.
ganja_smoker's Hydroponic Grow Journal

You can keep it topped and easily keep it under 4 feet tall. If height is an issue, fluorescent lighting is good again, because you can keep the light so close to the top of the plant

[fallen]

are you going to sell the clones / give them out to friends / start some huge clone takeover of the world?

[mikevyo]

taking over the world..one clone at a time

[DaMagoMan]

This one is goin' on 13+ months :-)
Under 20/4



My last One lasted 18+ months :-)

[fallen]

are you a re-vegger damago?

[DaMagoMan]

Nah,
I tried a few times and didn't like the results.

[fallen]

so you just.. flower, harvest, keep flowering?

[StonerGrower]

^ a plant can only flower for so long before it over-ripens and dies.

[fallen]

ah, so that's when you re-veg?


i've been trying to figure out that whole process, because i never knew how people kept the same plants for years and years and just re-harvested alot

[StonerGrower]

Re-veg is where you harvest your buds, NOT the whole plant, and when you take all the flowers from the plant you send it under 18/6 or 24/0, lets just say back into a begitative state, then you can flower later on and repeat the process. Though re-vegging is difficult for the fact that when people take their harvest buds from their re-veg plant the take all the fan leaves with it usually. Which causes the plant to die due to the fan leaves missing and no energy being produced for the plant to survive.

[fallen]

ah, ok sounds good.

and wouldn't that shorten the time until the next harvest, after the first one i mean, or do you gotta go through an entire .. 3-6 weeks of vegging again?

[StonerGrower]

No you do not need to go through veg again. However if you want your plant to grow some fan leaves to produce energy (if you cut them all off already) then you should.

[fallen]

yeah, i figured as much with the fan leaves.


thanks