Quick question on mothers( Experienced growers please respond) ty

weedsLV

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Hi I have a few grows under my belt but never kept mothers before. I have a 4x4x7 grow lab145 tent for mothers and clones. I would like to keep about four good bushy mothers for cloning and saving my genetics. I figure just a single 54watt t5 for a couple trays of clones would be efficient? And I'm mainly curious what lighting u would use for the mothers 4ft x 4 ho54wt5s ,4ft x 8 hot5s, a couple 200 or 150watt cfls??? I don't wanna put an ac in there and i am trying to keep Heat down. What do u experienced folks think? I don't wanna over do the lighting just want enough to keep good healthy mothers that rejuvenate at a nice pace after taking clones. I currently have a sunblaze 8 lamp ho t5 system but it generates quite a bit of heat in the tent and that's with a vortex 300 in something cfm Exaust fan and passive intake. Im also not plannin on flowering in this tent just so u know and dont misunderstand me i have a seperate room for that under hps 1000 watters.Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions..peace
 
i grew 7 bonsai mother plants under 3-4 36w3ft fluros, gave me more clones than i needed with very low power usage and heat
 
Cool thanks for your input bro were the Mommies nice and healthy? They weren't drooping or stretching from lack of light? Everyone seems to overkill everything on here and I have heard alot of people say u need way more light then I think they would need but I never kept mothers before so don't no the answer. Thanks alot man... Any 1 else wanna put your input in???
 
they were very healthy indeed, i had to prune them a bit and keep the needed branches since they were 7 bonsais. i don't see why to have more light, even with these i had to throw away a lot of trimmed branches since they gave me more than i needed and i needed lots of clones since i did SOG i took like 70 clones every 2 months
 

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