Questions about mother plants.

KoolCat · May 23, 2009

I got 5 feminized Lemon Skunk Seeds from GreenHouse Seed Co. and I was planning on growing out 4, taking a clone from each and use the clone as a mother plant. I was going to pick one clone out of the four with the best phenotype, based on the original seeds I grew into flowering, and just get rid of the other 3. Do I use nutes on a mother plant or no? Or should I use the original plant(s) from seed as mother and use the clones to grow into harvest to find good pheno?

Thanks

simpsonsampson420 · May 23, 2009

KoolCat said:
I got 5 feminized Lemon Skunk Seeds from GreenHouse Seed Co. and I was planning on growing out 4, taking a clone from each and use the clone as a mother plant. I was going to pick one clone out of the four with the best phenotype, based on the original seeds I grew into flowering, and just get rid of the other 3. Do I use nutes on a mother plant or no? Or should I use the original plant(s) from seed as mother and use the clones to grow into harvest to find good pheno?

Thanks

so what your saying is your going to grow 4 seeds, and grow 1 clone out from each of those and use as a mother based on how the original plants yield... so you get the strongest mother... and then throw out the other 3... why not flower the other 3?? since you are going to have to veg the clones anyways to have a mother plant you might as well...

but yea you still have to nute your mother plant... not as much... but some... she will still need to eat... i know some people who keep their mothers under floros, cut a bunch of clones off of her, and then throw her back into the veg room until she has replenished her limbs, and then throw her right back under floros... doing this they save their mothers for a year or better...

the way you are going to do it is probably the quickest way to find out which mother plant with yield the most...

good luck
sampson

StreetRider · May 23, 2009

Mommies need to eat Too.

You can go either way. Some people think that the seedlings will have a better root system so your first crop would be larger.

NegligentMother · May 23, 2009

you shouldn't clone fem seeds. it'll work, but you will def. get hermie prone plants.

KoolCat · May 23, 2009

NegligentMother said:
you shouldn't clone fem seeds. it'll work, but you will def. get hermie prone plants.

Really, oh I never heard of that. I'll go read into that more online now. I also have 1 feminized Skunk #1 from G13 labs to use as a mother. It's advertised as a "Stabilized Hybrid" so I shouldn't need to buy 4 to find a good pheno.

Thanks for the reply's so quickly, btw.

simpsonsampson420 · May 23, 2009

NegligentMother said:
you shouldn't clone fem seeds. it'll work, but you will def. get hermie prone plants.

never heard this either.. ive heard that there is a chance that a fem seed will grow into a hermie, but not that the clones from a fem plant from seed will turn into a hermie...

StreetRider · May 23, 2009

I think the Hermie thing pops up more with playing with the light cycle more than anything else.

A clone is genetically the same as the mother. So, there should be the same chance of hermie as with the seeded plants.

There are a few strains that are cloned only, no seeds. So, stable female is possible.

simpsonsampson420 · May 23, 2009

i know in nature that if there is a group of all females close together that one or more of them may produce seeds to ensure survival... im having that problem on my indoor grow... do to a long chain of events i had to plant multiple plants in single pots... they are thriving and producing nice fat buds, but i have some that have a few seeds... there are NO males obviously... and i have checked high and low on every plant and found NO signs of any sort of pollen sacs.. as far as i can tall im replicating an outdoor grow in that my girls are fighting for space and their roots are bound as they would be in nature so they are producing seeds to ensure their survival... since they dont know they are indoors they are acting as though they were outdoors... it sucks.. but its kinda interesting.. i have some pics in my journal.. links in my sig... check it out...

StreetRider · May 23, 2009

simpsonsampson420 said:
i know in nature that if there is a group of all females close together that one or more of them may produce seeds to ensure survival... im having that problem on my indoor grow... do to a long chain of events i had to plant multiple plants in single pots... they are thriving and producing nice fat buds, but i have some that have a few seeds... there are NO males obviously... and i have checked high and low on every plant and found NO signs of any sort of pollen sacs.. as far as i can tall im replicating an outdoor grow in that my girls are fighting for space and their roots are bound as they would be in nature so they are producing seeds to ensure their survival... since they dont know they are indoors they are acting as though they were outdoors... it sucks.. but its kinda interesting.. i have some pics in my journal.. links in my sig... check it out...

Any and all female seeds seem to have that chance weither or not they are over crowded. You seem to hear about it more and more. I think it had more to do with the female seeds than anything with the cloning. Could be wrong..

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