Ok so after reading the other post about a mother Im still confused. Im getting ready to start my first grow and have been doing some serious research. From everything Ive heard you keep a mother plant in constant vegetative state (18/6 or 24 hours a day) lighting. So to start and keep a mother. Do you...
1)Start my beans
2)Veg under Mh lighting until proper height is reached
3)Switch to hps lighting and change to 12/12 until sex shows
4)Pull the plant I want to use as a mother and revert her back to constant veg lighting?
5)Then take clones?

Or could I just simply take clones off the females Ill be growing 2-3 weeks before harvest and use these?

Thanks to all who reply

Hi
(I) think the best way is:
Take a clone(s) from your plants befor flowering.
When the sex of your original plant(s) are determinged.
Throw away any males and keep the female clones.
When I have taken clones form a regenerated flowered plant, the clones did not root as well.
By the time the original plants have flowered, harvested and dried, you will be able to take clones from the original clone.
It takes me about 8 10 weeks to be able to get clones from a clone.
Hope this helps.
PS It take me about 9 weeks flowering and 2-3 weeks drying/curing, by then my clones are ready and I can get 10-15 clones of it.

anyone out there ever flowered a mother????????????

wow noone has been here for years oh well ................

Hi (Got to get my 2cents in)
When I grow from seed, I always take at least 2 clones from each of them, while in the Veg grow.
Be sure to lable them.
As already stated, when the sex is known, throw away the males.
I don't throw away any of the clones until I finish flowing and know which were the best producers or have the characteristics I want, IE: tall, short etc.
Hope this helps.
Ps: I blant them in 10 gal storage bins from K Mart $4.60 each, the lids make great trays to set them in.
I have 4 mother plants, WW, Sour D, Soma and The Church.
I am continally taking clones looking for the Queen of Queens.

From seed and going Aero/Hydro, how long does it usually take for a mother to supply about 10+ clones?

i keep my mother plants for about 1 year then flower them... i like to change variety so i always keep 3 mothers for 1 year ..when i decide to flower them i trim them back ALOT... till only few big branches stay.. the plant doesnt look all that at first but once it begins its flowering it produces MANY VERY BIG buds!!!
if you have any questions on flowering mothers just let me know...
peace

Everything you have listed is right you can get your mother up to a certain height then put it to flower then sex the plant but make sure that you get the males out before pods open.But if you wanted you could plant all your seeds and then take cuttings and then put the plants on flower and root the males out that way.I would take two clone's of each plant just incase one dies if cloned right you should have a good chance of all of them takeing.Then once you have removed the males you could just take clones before budding but don't forget this means that you are going to have to keep them clones for 8 weeks sometimes more depending on strain.But i do think that mother plants are the way to go then you can take plants 3 week before fowering phase ends and put them straight in if you are useing hps lighting in your flowering room you will only have to leave them on flower for2/3 week before you can flower again.Take your clones at the begining of the flowering and you will have to keep them 8 week on veg so you will need a sizeable room to keep them.But the plants can be put straight on flower has soon has the other plants come out.Go with mothers mate it will be less hassle once the mother gets to big just top it or clone a new mother while you start a new bud.

Yes, but for goodness sake, has anyone here flowered a mother plant and lived to tell about it?

Yes, i flower all my mother plants eventually... infact
I like to keep them as mothers during the winter.... and once summer comes i put them outside to grow even bigger and flower.....

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