Need answer to question(s) about growing MOTHER plants for big grow!

I ordered 16 seeds, 3 different strains, from attitude seed-bank:

-Dutch Passion Blueberry Feminized (5 seeds)
-DNA Genetics Super Cannalope (6 seeds)
-Barneys Farm LSD Feminized (5 seeds)
-Dinafem Seeds Powerkush (1 free seed, UFO #1)
-Dinafem Seeds Blue Widow (1 free seed, UFO #2)
-Dinafem Seeds Cheese (1 free seed, UFO #3)
-Dinafem Seeds Critical + AUTOMATIC (1 free seed, UFO #4)
& a DNA Genetics Sticker

I was actually suprised that the UFO seeds were pretty decent after I read the reviews, now what my plan is to grow 150 plants and these seeds I purchased are my mother plants for which I need to be able to produce enough clones.. Now, how many mother plants do I need to divide the plants 3 ways for the 3 strains I bought? 2 Mother Plants each strain? or more? and then I have an extra 400 watt HPS light with electronic ballast, can I use this to grow my mother plants? if I can does the lighting change from 24on/0ff? if I can only use CFL lighting, how many lights and of what size should I use to adiquetly light all my mother plants that are producing 150 clones roughly every 3 months? THANKS IN ADVANCE

seriously? no one can answer this question?

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I just need to know how many mother plants i need to produce 150 clones every 3 months-ish and how many, of what type, lights i should use to adequitely light that amount of mother plants

Grow each mother from seed till it is six weeks old. Then, you may begin clipping clones........... Each mother plant probably would yield you 100-150 clones per month. They grow like crazy, the more you cut them up the more they grow back. We throw away about half of our clones just to keep the plant sizes manageable, and only have 8 mothers right now, and use 168 plants every 60 days........

And by the way, each seed will result in the right strain, but a different phenotype. There's hundreds of thousands of phenotypes. If you bank all of your luck on one seed for the strain, you may have crap or miraculous bud. Thats why its best to grow a pack (or five packs) of seeds and select from the best plants........... I'm sure you'll make a good choice regardless........

What you want to know?

YES, thanks a bunch I'll go ahead and plant all of em then and choose the best ones for mother plants but what about the lighting? how many of what size light for 6-8 mother plants?

And can I use my 400 watt hps or do I stick to CFLs? Thanks bro

Taquito35 said:

YES, thanks a bunch I'll go ahead and plant all of em then and choose the best ones for mother plants but what about the lighting? how many of what size light for 6-8 mother plants?

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What you do is grow each as regular plant, then when you are ready to flower them, take TWO CLONES off each plant, and label them accordingly so you know which are from which plant. By the time they are done flowering, you'll know EXACTLY which genetics you like the best, and then take clones from THOSE mothers.

For 6 or 8 mommies, I like a T5-HO 8' assembly. HPS lights are for flowering -- ONLY -- dont use them for mothers or for clones/vegging. You'll want at least 3 gallon buckets, 5 gallons are better (think Home Depot for $2 each!)

youre probably not going to get hundreds of clones every 3 months using CFLs.
You'll probably want HID for faster growth and bigger cuts.

Clown Baby said:

youre probably not going to get hundreds of clones every 3 months using CFLs.
You'll probably want HID for faster growth and bigger cuts.

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Fooled me, seen my mothers under T5HO's?

I get 64 good cuts every 3 weeks off 3 Super Lemon Haze mothers in RDWC under a 400w MH dimmed down to 300W on a lumatek... By week 3... They are huge and ready to cut again...
I would imagine... If your going to take that many every 3 months... your going to either need to increase your mother count to like... 6... and put them in soil so they dont grow as fast...
Or do it like me... and take cuttings more reg.