Mother management

[mtbazz]

Just looking to see what others are doing in terms of mother plants...
Mainly how many they keep and their maintenance schedule.

Reason I am asking is because I have been having trouble keeping up with all aspects of my grows lately due to work. My feeding and watering schedules are all off, and it showed with my last harvest, and needless to say keeping up with mother plants is getting diffucult.

Currently I have about six mothers:

Sour Life Saver
BogBubble
Sour Bubble
Northern Lights (peak seeds)
Northern Berry (peak seeds)
Critical + (3 different phenos):

Im thinking that for ease of maintenance two mothers is probably all I can handle right now.

Which two though? At the moment Iim leaning towards Sour bubble and one of the critical + phenos.

For variety, I have a ton of seed stock that I have accumalated over the years that should last me for a good 3-4 years if I alternate grows between clones and seed.

Thoughts ?

 

[Cappy]

With a single 400 watt light, I keep one mother and grow one strain at a time.

Once a year or when she looks like she needs it, I remove her from her planter and trim the sides off the soil mass about an inch all around. add fresh soil to the bottom, set her back in, pack the sides up, and she's off again. I let my mom get very large, becuase I water clone and take 8"+ cuttings.

I'd keep the Bog Bubble for sure. You choose the other.

 

[gaiusmarius]

it is well worth using coco with automated watering for moms. that way you only have to make sure you fill the tank up once a week. that will save you a lot of head aches. dwarf moms are good for keeping lots of strains going, but don't give many clones per plant. so in the end you have to calculate the size of your moms on the amount of clones you want from 1 mom in one go.

 

[Builtaforest]

Plan sounds fine, if that's what you want. I'm always looking for an excuse myself to let mothers go too lol.

Gaius has good points and will allow you to maintain more with the same level of maintenance. If you do not go auto water, go with a good compost or soil mix. Less watering if time permitting

 

[junior_grower]

If you had some try the grafting method, works for keeping multiple strain on 1 root stock.