Please help me with my mothers! I need help bad no one is replying in my journals and I need help now!
In plain old strait foward words how do a raise and maintain a mother?
Ok the rest is just fyi information it maybe a bit more than needed to know but it may be pertinent. My entire grow methods are from most poor man grow ideas I got from here so I use them as a poor woman’s grow.
I got the cloning thing down just fine but I don’t want to clone every time I grow from my plants, I want to do the mother plant thing. This time around I grew 13 clones all of them took real nice so 9 of them are for my growth cycle. I due 9 plants in each growth station to keep 9 plants a month ready to be picked. I left 4 of these clones to mother and I need the 4 mothers to give me the 9 clones a month I need to keep my cycle going. I hope they can due that using 2 plants at a time.
2 of these mothers are a type of kush and 2 are bubble gum as I was told. I keep them with my bag seed all the seeds were from really good stuff from a friend grows out doors in another state and sends me few bags once in a while. He only grows hi end stuff I usualy can't afford it or get anything around here that good so I kept the seeds. I don’t know for sure the strains I just know what I was told and remember the bud its self and how good it was. The rest of the bag seed is well known strains as well from him I just can't identify them yet.
How many clones can I pull off the mother until I have to replace her? I read some threads saying mothers last for ever I heard some say only 3 or 4 times. I want to keep them bushy so do I have to keep toping them and if so when and how do I top? Also I have 3, 5, and 8 gallon pots at my disposal I’m using soil so what size do u all recommend?
Right now for my vegetation set up I’m using soil and 400w metal halide on a 24/7 hr cycle for my entire vegetation area it houses the 4 mothers and the 2 clone trays. One clone tray is for the actual clones during rooting with rock wool cubes and a dome, the second tray is when I transplant them into plastic cups I put the cubes in soil for a few weeks I slit the bottom of the cups bottom water until ready.
I’m not sure but I may switch to florescent light instead of the 400w mh I’m not a big fan of CFL’s as u get more bang for the buck using regular old floros plus u can buy those specialty light bulbs for them. The only reason I’m using the mh is because it was free and I actually needed the heat from it to keep my area a bit warmer but summer is coming : )
In plain old strait foward words how do a raise and maintain a mother?
Ok the rest is just fyi information it maybe a bit more than needed to know but it may be pertinent. My entire grow methods are from most poor man grow ideas I got from here so I use them as a poor woman’s grow.
I got the cloning thing down just fine but I don’t want to clone every time I grow from my plants, I want to do the mother plant thing. This time around I grew 13 clones all of them took real nice so 9 of them are for my growth cycle. I due 9 plants in each growth station to keep 9 plants a month ready to be picked. I left 4 of these clones to mother and I need the 4 mothers to give me the 9 clones a month I need to keep my cycle going. I hope they can due that using 2 plants at a time.
2 of these mothers are a type of kush and 2 are bubble gum as I was told. I keep them with my bag seed all the seeds were from really good stuff from a friend grows out doors in another state and sends me few bags once in a while. He only grows hi end stuff I usualy can't afford it or get anything around here that good so I kept the seeds. I don’t know for sure the strains I just know what I was told and remember the bud its self and how good it was. The rest of the bag seed is well known strains as well from him I just can't identify them yet.
How many clones can I pull off the mother until I have to replace her? I read some threads saying mothers last for ever I heard some say only 3 or 4 times. I want to keep them bushy so do I have to keep toping them and if so when and how do I top? Also I have 3, 5, and 8 gallon pots at my disposal I’m using soil so what size do u all recommend?
Right now for my vegetation set up I’m using soil and 400w metal halide on a 24/7 hr cycle for my entire vegetation area it houses the 4 mothers and the 2 clone trays. One clone tray is for the actual clones during rooting with rock wool cubes and a dome, the second tray is when I transplant them into plastic cups I put the cubes in soil for a few weeks I slit the bottom of the cups bottom water until ready.
I’m not sure but I may switch to florescent light instead of the 400w mh I’m not a big fan of CFL’s as u get more bang for the buck using regular old floros plus u can buy those specialty light bulbs for them. The only reason I’m using the mh is because it was free and I actually needed the heat from it to keep my area a bit warmer but summer is coming : )
