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In our big Dark Devil Auto community resource thread, Rifleman mentioned that his DDAs were always ready at around 93 days, 100 days, something like that. But others, growing the same strain (and possibly even ones from the same selfing for some of them, IDK) reported that theirs were ready at various times, going all the way down to 61 or 63 days. Maybe type of grow (soil/hydroponics), composition of media, container size, nutrient ratios, and perhaps even temperatures and lighting can play a part in determining how long it will be from sprout to time of maximum number of cloudy-headed trichomes.
Of course it can. I'd only consider that if I was planning to grow a sizeable mother plant and regularly harvest a fair number of cuttings from it, though - but that's just me (and just me at this point in time). I expect I'd be more likely to do a small hand-watered/passive hydroponic setup or a small soil one. If the latter, I'd "refresh" it once a year or so by pulling it out of its container, cutting off an inch or so of roots/media from the sides and bottom, then pour a fresh layer of soil into the same container, set the plant back into it, and fill around the sides with the fresh mix. And give the greenery a good trimming to match the percentage of root matter that I removed, so that the plant stayed healthy.
I suppose so, lol. I once did an experiment in which I stuck three seedlings in 6-ounce or 8-ounce (I think it was the former, but couldn't swear to it) Styrofoam cups and parked them on top of the medicine cabinet in a bathroom, directly under a pair of little CFL bulbs. They were still alive a year later. They received minimal water and barely any additional food. I would have had to have treated them like I didn't hate them if I had wanted to regularly take cuttings from them. And if I had wanted a reasonable(?) number on a regular basis, I'd have most likely needed to stick them in larger containers - but not huge ones, the 6"x6"x6" ones would have been enough to support a small perpetual garden. Wouldn't have taken much in the way of resources at all.
Here's a thread by a guy who was doing a 112-plant perpetual SOG grow. It was supported by three smallish mother plants. You can see two of them in one of the pictures in post #5. It looks like they were sharing one container, so half the root space.
Come SOG With Me: 112 Plants, 2 Liter, Hempy SOG
Hello everyone, It's been a long time since I've ran a journal here. I just started a large SOG grow today so I've decided to journal it here for you. I have 3 Snow White(NLXCinderella99) mothers in my veg room along with a 50 site aero cloner. I just transplanted the first 16 rooted clones...www.420magazine.com
For a mother plant, or more than one? Well, you don't need to ensure a regular uninterrupted period of darkness each day - and, as I mentioned above, you don't really need much space/etc.. So you might not actually need a grow tent for it/them. A decent sized shelf with some old-school fluorescent tube lighting screwed to the underside of the shelf above it might work. A little cabinet picked up at a yard sale, CraigsList, or a thrift store. Sturdy cardboard box, even. If your mothers get too large for the space, give them a haircut. Treat them like houseplants; you do not have to grow out everything that you cut from them.
Seems to me... If you're relying on a few big grows to provide you with product, that you'd be more vulnerable to disaster, not less. Instead of possibly losing the equivalent of a short period's worth of supply, you could lose months' worth. Unless it's something major like a house fire, I suppose - but that could destroy everything, including whatever you have in storage. <KNOCKS ON WOOD>
But whatever you end up being best for you. I'm just mentioning options. BtW, most folks who grow semi-constantly end up producing way more than they actually need. Some of them get pretty creative in finding uses for the stuff. Or giving the excess away as gifts.
Well now its sounding like I would be silly not to have a mother plant going... Thought they needed a lot more space but I guess youre only cutting off pretty small amounts... I could do it with either white widow or
bubba kush, only photo period strains I have atm... Very minimal cloning experience, but a friend I used to
help out had pretty good success with clonex and I think it was inexpesnive.
OP soz we hijacked your thread.
Doesnt bother me one bit, I like listening to grow methods cuz I havent heard of half of them... And I forget half of what Ive heard so I really like checking out everyones methodology on here. Some realllllly surprising levels of devotion
on here, very impressive.