Quote Originally Posted by GDS StonerBoy
Thanks for stopping by Al B. hope to see you around often, after all im using a technique that i learned from you. Hopefully i can get your help to have this thing going right!
GDSSB, thanks for the nod. Frankly, there's not much more to it than flowering your cuttings soon as they have a good spray of roots.

How many mothers do you think it would take to keep my trays full if im only going to have maybe 12 clones per tray?
I usually have between 6-10 mums to support 30 cuttings every 2 weeks. How many mums you keep is dependent upon how often you need a batch of cuttings and how many cuts you need each time.

I deliberately use a fairly big light for vegging my mums (400HPS) as this makes the severely pruned mums pick right back up and be ~600-800mm tall just 15 days later. I've recently trialled a MH>HPS retrofit lamp but wasn't happy with the light output and the slower recovery of the mums, so I'm back on the 400HPS.

Also im thinking of having it setup for 2 different strains so i'll probably have 4 small trays for my papaya then i'll have four different trays for my AK-47 or C99. My trays arent the size of yours so how many mothers do you think i'll need to have my grow steady like yours?
Having several strains isn't the best thing for a SoG op because of the differing finishing height and growth rates of different strains. Were I you wanting to do multiple strains, I'd do whole trays of one strain at a time to keep the heights even.

I get about 6-10 really GOOD cuttings from mainstem stock off each mother, varies on the development of the mums. I don't use cuttings from low down on the mother, I only use mainstem cuts with the thickest stems preferred. I could get lots and lots more cuttings per mum if I used the tiny little branches from low down on the mum plants, but thicker stemmed cuttings make for better performing plants in flower or as replacement mums.

Takes a couple of passes of cuttings before the mums develop and branch out enough to start giving lots of good quality cuttings per pass. After 5-8 passes of cuttings, dependent upon the state of the mum plant, I'll retire it and replace it with one of its 'kids.'

While I appreciate your praise, I don't think I'll be popping in here to follow your grow. I stopped using this board due to high-handed admin practises and limited features (like no PMs). See you on OSA.