I think the bonzai thing does not really work that well for mothers, but that is just my opinion. I think, for most people, if you want to keep 2 mothers, you can train your 4 other plants to really widen their canopies and create a nice canopy for one light with just 4 plants. Then you keep your 2 mothers. But honestly, if you only have 6 plants legally, I would only keep one mother.
Maybe I just do not understand what you mean by bonzai, haha. When I was only legal for 6 plants, I did like cptweed is saying, and took a clone off the vegetative plants before they went into flowering. When I got another patient, I started keeping a mother.
Question on this....how do you get any worthwhile cuttings off something kept so short? Just visualizing a bonzai'd plant under 1 foot in diameter, and I am just thinking the nodes may not be able to develop enough? Just a thought, but you guys have practical knowledge, mine is just theory....haha. Probably just taking super small clones?
Absolutely worth it, just trying to wrap my brain around it, that's all. I deal with this challenge myself, since I let my Ice Anomaly mother get wayyyyy too big.....so I am actively looking for ways to improve in the future......hope I am not intruding in the thread....I will try to go do some research also.......I like the discussion though....I am always liking to learn new ways to go about things.
I literally was JUST LOOKING AT THAT THREAD, and about to post a link...haha. Seriously, it is in my copy file, ready to be pasted......haha. I just subscribed to it, and I think this is going to help me out at just the right time.......My Ice Anomaly is in a huge pot, and I need to prune back the roots, and put it in a smaller pot, or the same pot with some new soil......So glad you got this thread started! Good stuff!
Yes this too is a good option, but some people like to grow multiple strains
Haha, this makes much more sense to me.....I just could not wrap my brain around keeping it under a foot tall AND a foot diameter. Tough to get any good clones, or at least a good number of good clones from that.......overall I think everyone ought to check out the bonzai link if you have not seen something like that already. Very informative.
What are you using as your multiple mothers? And is there any chance of you picking up another patient in need, so you can have more options for mothers?
As I mentioned I am not currently doing this, but I would like to experiment with different strains in the somewhat near future as far as time required to grow a plant! I don't know about you all but I get tired of a certain strain after a bit. As for picking up another patient, I don't have enough experience to do this. There is no way I could promise anything to them.
Oregon we can have 18 total, but only 6 can be "mature" as per the definition someone posted earlier. which is anything greater than 12inches wide and/or 12 inches tall.