How to stunt growth of cloning mother

I would like to clone up to 80+ clones from 5 plants or so...

The clones will go straight into flowering light once they have rooted, but I would like to clone them all at the same time... not SOG method.

Original 5 mother plants will be grown from seed under 600w veg light until large enough to cut the clones from.

Clones will be rooted under CFL... but once they go into the flower room, I will discard the mothers and replace them with new clones to become mothers....

My question is... the others will take 2-2 1/2 months to harvest and I would like to leave the 5 mothers under the CFL for this period, thus using the CFL to give very slow veg so that I dont have to top the mothers every 2 weeks (height restriction) until they are ready to have clones cut from them for new grow....

Any suggestions of how you keep your mothers in a suspended veg state whilst clones flower?

Cheers.

I'm not an experienced grower, but from common logic I think you could give them "just enough" light for life support. So they don't grow.

That or LST.

pinch pinch pinch and yes use cfl because the plant can be about touching the light and will grow nice and bushy, then after you harvest clones bud out mothers

I used a product called bushmaster to control the height of my sativas. The plants didnt like it too much but they recovered and stayed nice and squat. Nice and puffy too

Boneman said:

I used a product called bushmaster to control the height of my sativas. The plants didnt like it too much but they recovered and stayed nice and squat. Nice and puffy too

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Cheers for the replies guys
Yes, the strain will be predominantly Sativa so the height was an issue...

I was going to use the CFL because of power consumption and I would not be in a hurry to veg them... they have 10 weeks to kinda just chill and grow before they will be cut apart for cloning...

I have no interest in budding out the mothers, Id like to just simply keep them in a dormant vegetative state....

I was just interested in what you guys use/would use as my old methods incorporated... well more than one light! hahaha

Efficiency is always paramount in my setups...

And did I say 80? I meant 8... *paranoid face* lol

Cheers.

So just to give this a little bit of a bumpsy, but in general theory, a plant thrives with light and nutrient.
So if you drop the lighting lumens to their poorest yet sustainable level... and drop the nutes right back as well..... then the clone should only grow very slowly?

They are soggish style sativas, so the longer they can stay in 'slow motion' till the other finish flowering the better....

Will this work? Or am I going to do permanent damage to the plants?
Cheers.