Please Help Noob Grower! How To Maintain Mother Plant

First of all i know nothing more than the 4+ hours of sifting through weed forums...

I have 3 plants, 10 weeks old, ready for harvest...
I grew these in my spare time in green house, they were given to me from a friend so i said F it and grew them lol.
grown in soil

I want to keep a mother...is it too late?

I'm sure i'm beating a dead horse with my noob questions...but i've been searching for hours and there are just WAY too many variables and different situations people are explaining that i cant put them together.

I just need to know what to do with my 3 budding plants, if i want to keep a mother going for years for cloning a new batch for next harvest.

or any links for my situation?

thanks to all who who understand being a clueless small yield grower asking the same question you read every day!

whichever one you would like to keep as a mother just move it indoors and keep it under a 18/6 or 24 hour light cycles and it will just keep growing and will never bud. but make sure to keep clipping clones off the top to keep the plant short and bushy.

all you have to do is switch the light cycles and it will go from flowering to veg in about 2-3 weeks

You have plants that are near harvest and want to keep one as a mother plant?

You're going to have to re-veg whichever plant you want to preserve. Harvest early leaving the lower branches, leaves, and buds intact and place the plant under 24/7 light. It is going to take a while, but in a few weeks you will have new growth that you can take clones from. If you wait too long, however, the plant will be too far gone to re-veg so pick the one you want to save and harvest it early.

I just took several cuttings off of a plant that I've been reveging (I didn't keep any clones because I wasn't all that impressed with the plant - when I finally realized how nice it was it was too late to take cuttings), it took about 5 weeks before I could take clones off of it.

Reveging is interesting, for the first week or two you will see no signs of new growth, although the calyxes on the lower buds that you have left will continue swelling - they reach a size far larger than they would on a normal mature bud. Eventually, single pointed leaves with little or no serration will begin sprouting out of these buds followed, eventually, by three point leaves - likely wrinkled and oddly shaped - and finally normal leaves.

Once you get clones off of the thing you can make one of these your new mother plant.

There's a link to re-vegging is in my signature. Tiz a technique I use quite often. :jointsmile: