Mother Plant questions

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Shannara

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I have a couple questions on the care required to maintain a producing mother plant. First, what kind of lighting (not type, but rather cycle, 24/0, 12/12) do you keep a mother plant under. Second, how many leafs/nodes should you leave on the plant to make sure it lives to make a second set of clones, and lastly, do you re-soil it every once in a while, or do you just throw some nutes in there and if so, what nutes? Thanks in advance.
 
the widowman

the widowman

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18/6 light cycle all the time, blood fish and bone for nutes. take it out its pot now and again to give it new soil and let it get a couple of feet before you take sideshoots for clones. nice one
 
Ganzy1003

Ganzy1003

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that is a good question.... whats the limit when taking clones? When are you really starting to put the plant in danger?
 
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fdd2blk

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i try to take as many cuttings as i can. then i pull it out of the pot and rake the roots. then i re-pot with new soil and give a heavy feeding of nitrogen.

this doesn't work. don't do it. hope this helps.

 
SmokerE

SmokerE

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What about continous clones? Is it possible to take clones, then put the mother to flower, use the clones as mothers and continue like that?
 
hearmenow

hearmenow

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You can use a clone as a mother but as you select a mom from each subsequent generation, any anomalies or genetic defects will become more and more pronounced, leading to possible inferior plants.
 
BloodShotI'z

BloodShotI'z

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How long is suggested time to keep a mother? Indefinitely? A year? After "X" amount of cuttings taken?

Whats your theory? Or when do YOU scrap a mom plant?
 
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