Caring for mother plants

Jackalope

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After hell year, I am ready to rebuild. That was easier than I thought. I now find myself with 14 brand new mothers. Or there will be mothers amongst them.

I was hoping Katsu or anyone else for that matters. Would take a little time and give us a crash course on mothers, Pot size, feeding schedules, and what not.

I manage to keep my mothers alive, I can't say I am doing things right though.
 
Im very keen to get some feedback on this. With all KBs fire, Im going to need a mother or two around!
 
Seating for the class is filling up. Now all we need is a teacher now LOL.

I am sure I could find lots of info on the old interwed. I would rather hear from people that have kept mothers for years at a time. Pot size and feeding schedules can change so much. I know one thing. My mothers grow to fast. Last time I had 10 I was constantly cloning to keep them small enough to save space.
 
this is great! and deff yeah can learn a lot i never really put a lot of thought into vegging long term usually just trimming and nutes - transplant sizes and or trim roots but other than that im sure there is a myrid of techs for long term sucessful vegetation of mothers - something essential a lot of the strains and hybrids eg sr-71 have a lot of sterility problems but very very high cutting propogation plants its almost like they were "desigened" as mothers lol i wounder if -genetics play a role eg some plants are better or worse at a "mother plant type role"

not to add to much but one thing:

would like to know peoples opinions on rotating mothers/ continous clippings off the same
= have success with both but notice vigor problems after 6-7 cycles with the first method, i do both now and try to keep at least one intact female vegetating of a strain preserving it- doing that for two of my ladies now (reveg failed for third :/)
 
I have never seen any problems with degeneration of clones or mothers. With the clone and go method of keeping mothers. I only kept mine for 3 years or so. That is why I breed. After that long, I am bored with a strain and it is time to move on. If I have my own S-1 seeds of it. It is easier to drop the plants and move on
 
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