How to get a mother plant?

So I have a grown from start to finish with seeds a few times with decent success but now I want to start playing around with cloning a bit. Obviously in order to clone, you need a mother plant for trimmings, because lets face it, nobody wants thirty male clones. Now I know that you sex the plants after about 10-14 days of flowering but once you figure out which plants are female and you pick out your ideal "mother plant", how do you get it to revert back to Veg growth as opposed to the continuation of its flowering?

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Originally Posted by socaltay12

So I have a grown from start to finish with seeds a few times with decent success but now I want to start playing around with cloning a bit. Obviously in order to clone, you need a mother plant for trimmings, because lets face it, nobody wants thirty male clones. Now I know that you sex the plants after about 10-14 days of flowering but once you figure out which plants are female and you pick out your ideal "mother plant", how do you get it to revert back to Veg growth as opposed to the continuation of its flowering?

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Sorry no pilgrems be helpin u out yet but be answerin yur question yu putim back into veg state! The plant be doin the rest. Good luck pilgrem hopin yual do well.

BWD

F'n amazing mother plant technique here! ;) Bonsai Mums: A Guide - Grasscity.com Forums



I use and abide by that method...... Even with my graftomum ;)

Thank you, that link was very helpful. I'll definitely be giving it a shot

To get your plant to re-veg, just put the lights back to 18/6, 20/4 or 24/0....the plant will take a few weeks to start re-veggin, and may show some stress while doing so, like single blade leaves, etc., while trying to get back to veggin....just let it go until it gets going in veg again. Cloning is so much faster than from seed, just takes a little practice is all! G/L!

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Originally Posted by TANKJR

To get your plant to re-veg, just put the lights back to 18/6, 20/4 or 24/0....the plant will take a few weeks to start re-veggin, and may show some stress while doing so, like single blade leaves, etc., while trying to get back to veggin....just let it go until it gets going in veg again. Cloning is so much faster than from seed, just takes a little practice is all! G/L!

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Yeah thats what Ive heard, thats why I want to try it out this time around. Seeds were planted about 3 days ago so Ive got quite a while til ill be cloning but im still excited:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by TANKJR

To get your plant to re-veg, just put the lights back to 18/6, 20/4 or 24/0....the plant will take a few weeks to start re-veggin, and may show some stress while doing so, like single blade leaves, etc., while trying to get back to veggin....just let it go until it gets going in veg again. Cloning is so much faster than from seed, just takes a little practice is all! G/L!

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Hey TANK,
I've been involved in other threads that kinda hit on everythang ya said. I'm in total agreement with ya!:thumbsup: Took me awhile to realize that seed stock grows a more productive and stouter plant... Just from experience.. I clone most of my stock. As well as re-veggin'.. Just had a SK#1 veg back yesterday.I took her 4 weeks,on 18/6.. I think 20/4 works the best for the sk1. Big Bud seems to do better at 18/6/.. So.. It would seem as if it kinda depends on the strain,as far as, stress and time it takes to come back. I've had Big Bud come back in three and was flowering her at 7 weeks.. Guess you just gotta really pay attention to a strain. Try to understand what it likes and stick with what we learn from it.PRACTICE! For sure!!!:thumbsup:

You could also just take a cutting and put your cutting into flowering cycle. That way you don't have to stress out your "mother plant".
Just a suggestion :)

I had a friend send me some seeds. The plant looks very good. Very hardy and very bushy. thick heavy buds. So I took clones during week 2 of bud. I know I have a mom. So in 8 weeks when the original plant is done and ready to be smoked the clones will be ready to flower.
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Yeah Ive been tossing around both ideas of whether to re-veg or take a clone to flower. Re-veg is ideal for my grow setup im just worried about stressing it to the point of a hermie. Ive been doing more research about cloning so if I can find a tiny spot to do it at im gonna take a clone from each of my five plants, number them, find which are females, and take the best one and then do whatever with the rest.