today finaly get CM and CS, must say quick delivery (5days)!
PS: get 19 seeds CM, thanks shanti for mistake
so i think about future mother plants which way is better, keep mother from seed or taking clone from seed flower, is some difference at all or not?
Shanti recommends keeping seed plants as mothers, although clones as mothers are fine too.
http://www.mrnice.nl/dhtml/uploads/WW5new.pdf
Shanti recommends keeping seed plants as mothers, although clones as mothers are fine too.
To manage the fitness and health of the strain it is essential to cut a clone from the old mother/fathers, root them and grow them under natural sunlight for a period of about 1-2 months then bring them or a clone of them back inside to take over from the old parents as new mother/father plants.
It depends on how strong the cutting is IMO. Thickness/height of the clone's stem, amount of nodes/sets of leaves on the clone, size of leaves on the clone etc.i was notice from my mothers plants (from seed), that if i cut, for example: from each, 10 clones, i get six or seven "normal" clones and the other four looks like from different mother, like different pheno..... but all are from one mother, interesting!
Thanks for the link Ouchie.
I didn't read it that the seed mothers are best kept as mothers indefinitely, rather that it is better to use clones.
Different in what way? Pics?
i make new setup for mother plants. i want keep them short about 2ft, and i wander how much W should get them?
2x70w or 2x110W 5ft long, should be enough?
How many plants? How many cuts do you want take from them and how often?
I'd say 200w of fluoros is plenty enough to keep 6 mothers even if you are taking a fair few cuts from them.
If you only want to take cuts every month or two, you could use far fewer watts, say 10 or 15W per plant should be fine. They don't need much to keep them ticking over.
hey FARM...
i will have about 10-20 mothers in 1gal pots for six months, but like i said bonsai mothers.
i need 100 clones every two month.
at this moment i have 3 moms 3-4 ft under 70W T5 5ft long and i was able took 100 clones every one and half month.
tell me if i put my seedlings under 150w MH for one or two month (i dont want too much strech with poor light), and then back to 70W T5 can couse some stress, beacuse changing of lights?