Who has the Oldest Mother Plant?

Art909

Art909

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:leaf:The reson i ask is I have a few mother plants that are about 6 months old. and I want to know if you can force your mother plants into flowering? is there a life span? or will they live long with proper care?. Any experience will help, Thanks!:leaf:
 
DaveCoulier

DaveCoulier

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You can put them into flowering any time you switch to 12-12. I dont know how long a mj plants lifespan is, but an orchid can live for 100 years + if properly cared for, so just treat her right.
 
Art909

Art909

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Thanks ....I know of how to send them into flowering. I just wanted to make sure it wasnt to late I wanted to keep them around a few more months for more clippings and then send them outside mid spring to flower., thanks again! Anyone else with older plants?
 
NeedMoreHerb

NeedMoreHerb

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Art909 said:
:leaf:The reson i ask is I have a few mother plants that are about 6 months old. and I want to know if you can force your mother plants into flowering? is there a life span? or will they live long with proper care?. Any experience will help, Thanks!:leaf:
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You can leave a mother vegging as long as you want as long as you feed her and treat her right. Years if you really wanted to. Then you can send her to flower at any time! :D She will literally turn into a tree though.
 
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bryant228

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You really have to keep a mother properly trimmed. Kind of like a bonsai tree. Mine is looking like it needs replaced soon. Going on 9 months now. I could put her into flower but I'm worried about the type of buds that will come off of her.
 
Art909

Art909

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NeedMoreHerb said:
You can leave a mother vegging as long as you want as long as you feed her and treat her right. Years if you really wanted to. Then you can send her to flower at any time! :D She will literally turn into a tree though.
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A Tree?!....Nice. well thats pretty much what I wanted to hear! for a minute I thought these beauties would never Flower!...do you have any old plants youve flowered? and pics? :leaf::leaf::leaf:
 
Art909

Art909

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bryant228 said:
You really have to keep a mother properly trimmed. Kind of like a bonsai tree. Mine is looking like it needs replaced soon. Going on 9 months now. I could put her into flower but I'm worried about the type of buds that will come off of her.
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What do you mean kind of buds? :?:
 
uNDer0ath

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A friend of mine has an NYCD mother that he has had for over a year and a half. It is 9ft tall indoor grown. I keep telling him to flower that bitch.
 
Mr.Therapy Man

Mr.Therapy Man

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Ive kept them over two years but I had a little genetic drift.I just killed a Mandala#1 and GHS trainwreck that were allmost a full year old and provided hundreds of cuttings..peace
 
panhead

panhead

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How long a plant will remain in veg stage depends much on the strain & conditions the plant is grown in,some plants will go into flowering even if the lights are on a full 24/7 all on their own,i have a Big Bud mother that is allmost 3 yrs old,ive also had a white widdow mother go into full bud after 7 months in the same room/conditions as the BB mother.

Older moters produce woody clones that have a higher succes rate over young mothers,in turn older clones are more sexually mature & grow/bud faster as well as the older clone will produce fatter heavier buds.

The biggest benifit to having an old mother is finish time shortens with each cloning ,i can run a Big Bud harvest in about 6 weeks where when i 1st started that strain it was a 10 week strain to finish off with a heavy buzz.
 
NeedMoreHerb

NeedMoreHerb

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Art909 said:
A Tree?!....Nice. well thats pretty much what I wanted to hear! for a minute I thought these beauties would never Flower!...do you have any old plants youve flowered? and pics? :leaf::leaf::leaf:
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Nope, I have been growing from seed but I am going to try out cloning soon. I like going 12/12 from seed, get me my mini babies.
 
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bryant228

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Art909 said:
What do you mean kind of buds? :?:
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mrmadcow said:
they will be exactly like the buds that came off your last group of clones.
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I grow my plants untopped. When I top my plants, I get alot of little branches below that i have to keep cleaned off. I like my plants single cola, I get dencer buds that way. It's just a personal preference. I don't really have alot or room in my setupt for mutiple branchs, they get too weighed down. My mothers always end up with thick, top branches with many branches.
 
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bryant228

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panhead said:
How long a plant will remain in veg stage depends much on the strain & conditions the plant is grown in,some plants will go into flowering even if the lights are on a full 24/7 all on their own,i have a Big Bud mother that is allmost 3 yrs old,ive also had a white widdow mother go into full bud after 7 months in the same room/conditions as the BB mother.

Older moters produce woody clones that have a higher succes rate over young mothers,in turn older clones are more sexually mature & grow/bud faster as well as the older clone will produce fatter heavier buds.

The biggest benifit to having an old mother is finish time shortens with each cloning ,i can run a Big Bud harvest in about 6 weeks where when i 1st started that strain it was a 10 week strain to finish off with a heavy buzz.
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I have noticed that my buds are a little bigger. I thought maybe it was because I was thinning out the bottom branches better. I'll have to track that now.

I will say when I take clones off of woody branches, they take longer to root then soft green branches. Thanks for the info.
 
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