Mother is getting too big

[Eternal_Ghost]

Hello everyone, I need a little more help. I'm using a 2x4 flood table for my veg/mother area under 3, 4ft fluorescents. My mother is about 4 mos old. (og kush) I am having a problem keeping her at a good size to be able to veg 6-8 clones in same area. (she is just too bushy) This is my first mother and a little worried of "hacking" her. I have only taking 1 set of clones from her about 2 weeks ago. what can i do to keep her size down?

 

[Phillthy]

take a few clones then flower her out or ditch her.

 

[High Country]

Hello everyone, I need a little more help. I'm using a 2x4 flood table for my veg/mother area under 3, 4ft fluorescents. My mother is about 4 mos old. (og kush) I am having a problem keeping her at a good size to be able to veg 6-8 clones in same area. (she is just too bushy) This is my first mother and a little worried of "hacking" her. I have only taking 1 set of clones from her about 2 weeks ago. what can i do to keep her size down?

"Hacking" her will not hurt. It will continue to grow and produce more clone sites. Pruning, topping, hacking is the best way to reduce the size. They are very resiliant plants and will bounce back from a good hack.

Don't be scared...hack her.

 

[Jellyfish]

What he said.

 

[GF-Z]

my plant started from single cola, i topped, done lst. plant stressed a lot. one bad day bulb dropped straight on plant and burned him all... After 2 weeks there was 2x more grow sites and plant recovered 100% So do what you want, plant will become just more strechy

 

[avant gardener]

why keep a mum if you're NOT going to cut her back?
sounds like good genes to me.
if you can't use all those clones, spread the love around.
take a few to the swap meet with you.
you might be able to trade some for a whitesnake cd
(or maybe even a poster of kathy ireland).
use them as ornamentals on your walkway.
halloween is right around the corner—
consider giving clones to the neighborhood kids as a healthy alternative to candy.
barring that, you can always break out the round-up.
i hear that shit is good for controlling weeds.

let me know how that works out for you.

 

[Dislexus]

Sounds like you don't need to make clones for awhile... so hack away... by the time you need them you'll have plenty of top cuttings.

 

[budman678]

give her a sick haircut. or dont keep a mother and clone off the other two weeks into flower

 

[Anti]

I just hacked 9 mamas that were approaching 3 ft. tall because I don't have that much headroom in the new mom room. I made a mark on the wall at the height that was acceptable, and then I cut off anything that was taller than that mark.

They'll be fine.

Hack that bitch up.

 

[Tonatiuh]

ya full on mullet cut,business in the front,party in the back...on the real,hack her down to size yo,get u some cuts and be happy.you will learn how to trim her up proper as u keep doin it.moms are for takin cuts,u aint gonna hurt her unless u full on shave her bald or close.
peace-T-

 

[Anti]

After my first harvest, i revegged my one "superstar" from that harvest and she came back. Then I got lazy (smoking my harvest without a care in the world) and forgot to water that bitch for at least a week, maybe more.

One day I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I watered her and I came back to a plant that looked dead. I mean, my heart was broken, that plant was gone. I had fucked up and I was gonna be stuck with bag seed.

Out of desperation, even though there wasn't a single green leaf left on that plant, I watered her anyway. I watered her for 2 weeks and started growing some bag seeds out. I knew it was a lost cause, but I kept on watering her anyway.

And then about 3 weeks after she "died" - new life! At first it was just one little set of leaves on one little spindly branch. But in time, she completely recovered. There was a dead plant for the first 12 inches and a thriving bush up above it.

(All the moms I mentioned in the post above are "her", btw. I've been using clones of her for 2+ years now.)

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Bonsai mum!!!!!!!!!

My oldest Bonsai mum is a year + and has been grafted yielding 4 strains on a single stalk I started a grafting thread here,.... but after an epic fail in flower (not really) I might just start a new thread for it.

 

[budman678]

Bonsai mum!!!!!!!!!

My oldest Bonsai mum is a year + and has been grafted yielding 4 strains on a single stalk I started a grafting thread here,.... but after an epic fail in flower (not really) I might just start a new thread for it.

i would love to re4ad more about grafting...this sounds very coool

 

[Eternal_Ghost]

Thanks for all the info. I ended up trimming her down to a good size and all is well, she recovered nicely. She is still taking up alot of room tho. I am about ready to put some more clones into the system but cannot drop my lights to a few inches above tops because of her. Im thinking on moving her out of hydro table and putting her on the floor under different light. But..... I can only do dirt there. Is it possible to "clean" up her roots and transplant her into dirt? Or should I just start a new mom from one of the clones?

 

[stonedar]

I would put a clone in soil and kill the biatch, once you are sure that you have a clone and that it happy in it's new home that is. mean time, don't be afraid to cut her down to the very last couple of growth tips, cut cut cut

soil mothers out to start out in a smallish pot and then be transplanted up fairly frequently. if I have a strain I really really want to keep I have a young mom and an old mom at all times in soil/coco

 

[Ichabod Crane]

If you are going to keep mother plants you should read this thread.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=31919

 

[KRD]

Thats cool if you dont have space, but small moms make small clones and not many of them.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

After a handful of hacking on the mom, its good to pull her out of the pot and remove some roots, chopping a little off around the edges, and then replanting her. This keeps her from getting root bound and autoflowering. I had an indica leaning mother that did that once.

 

[wantaknow]

i could use about twenty of them right now

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Thats cool if you dont have space, but small moms make small clones and not many of them.

Not true,... small moms will make LOTS of "Small" clones,... or "not many" LARGE clones,.... it all depends on how YOU manage the plant!