Quote Originally Posted by Horsemanrocks
To me, (newbish) counter-intuitive. I would have momâ??d first, cloned second, then flowered the clones. I see the efficiency factorâ?¦â?¦but isnâ??t it more difficult to take clones from plants already in flower. Teach me master!

I donâ??t care what they say,
Horsemanstillrocks.
Let me just recap the sequence here:
1) germinated and grew out the original 10 SS seeds (now tagged A-J)
2) took clones from the originals, at least 2/plant, 3-4 in some cases
3) put the original 10 plants into flower
4) when clones rooted, transplanted to containers (abt 30 plants) and vegged
5) took cuts for clones from these 30 plants (now 120 clones)
and that brings us up to current point.

I could have grown the original seeds, taken clones and flowered those clones while retaining the 10 original plants but; a) wanted to "taste" the original 10 and b) quicker to have "mom's in waiting" so I can get the strain into a production run. Also insurance that there is a least 2 plants from each of the originals so if something happen to one it would not be lost.
It's so much quicker it causes the small problem I had here, what to do with the 30 waiting moms when they got to big during veg...just make more clones.

Hope that clears up any confussion, not sure it will tho . I know I'm still confussed .
These 120 clones are ready to transplant, after I do that and vegged a short while, I hope to get the originals tasted but if not ready I'll select abt 50 to do a run in flower based on the notes showing the best 4 or so originals. Later that will become 1 or 2 mom lines to work from.
Excess plants at this stage I usually do 1 of 2 things; destroy if questionable in any way, pass on excess good plants to other cancer/hospice groups in other towns where I have helped to establish small simple grows for them. In most of these grows people are not interested in keeping moms and clonning etc., they have 1 or 2lights and just need to grow out a few to a bunch of plants. I always have greater cloning capacity then final flower space.

Once this selection process is done, and I start to run batches, I will repeat this process by growing out 10 femmed Barneys' Master Kush and going thru it all again. It takes time to do this whole process, but that's what it takes.
oldmac Reviewed by oldmac on . Selecting a Mother Thought I'd share something here about the need to grow out a fair number of plants from seed, in order to select the best plant(s) for future use as a mother. I constantly see folks here with plant problems that are simply the result of growing one or two seeds, and getting what you got and then looking for help because; 1) too short, doesn't seem to grow "like my friends" plant or 2) my plant has lots of stretch and is lanky or 3) I grew this plant and it was nice and bushy but this strain is Rating: 5