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Casadelwhacko posted an update in the group
3 months agoAsk a Grow Question So I’ve found one I wanna keep around. I’ve been taking cuts and am pleased. What’s the best environment to keep a mother? Can I just put her in a “comfy” place and keep 18/6 at 350-400PPFD? I will end up with a tent or closet/room by the summer, but if possible I’d like to take her out of the tent and let her just chill for a year or so. Ambient light from a window behind the couch overlooking the back porch? That would make the wife SOOOO Happy! 🤣
Happy Fourth Gentlemen.
tjrez, budwinjones and 3 others5 Comments-
Yes! Behind the couch, weed house plant. Love it
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Tips for keeping genetics long term. Pick a final pot size and plant directly in it. Don’t ever transplant. Pot size is determined by length of plant’s life span. About a gallon+ per month. Never let the mother plant get root bound. Branching immediately gets thinner and internodal spacing elongates. Structure is ruined along with any clone taken from it in the future. No need to keep a big plant long term. More time to hurt her. Keep low intensity lighting as close as possible or again structure will stretch if lighting is too far away. I don’t keep mothers longer than 3 months and their replacements are taking from them around the 2 month mark when they’re at peak health. My mothers start and die in 3-5 gallon pots. It’s really easy to ruin future crops by not caring for mothers properly. Growers called this ruining of structure over time as genetic drift when it’s actually not the plant’s fault it’s been mistreated in an inadequate environment causing it’s phenotypical expressions to change and adapt to the conditions it’s forced to live in.
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@jmystro No doubt?! I had developed the idea that folks were hanging onto one for much longer periods. This makes way better sense though!
Cut from a cut, from a cut… alright. I was looking through the peephole backwards. Thank you again!!!
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I’ve kept genetics for 15+ years while managing to maintain their vigor, structure and yields until the day they were murdered (by police) by caring for them better than the plants in my flower room. Priorities. I know this by my actions when I wake up. First I visit the veg room, then the flower room.
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You could always try something new. Turn your mother into bonsai. She sat in a 1.5 gallon plastic pot. After about almost a year i trimmed the roots and put her back into the 1.5. I finally decided to flower her after taking clones for 2 years in a 5 gallon tall fabric pot. I enjoy every moment. The only thing I’d do differently is feed feed feed cuz she was hungry growing all that flower.
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