Best method for starting and keeping mothers from seed +REP

BlazaBlaze

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Sorry if this is a double post but I thought I posted this thread earlier but i can't find it so im gonna throw it up again.

I'm currently flowering my entire crop, including my old soil mothers because I have some new strains that i'd like to give a try. So here are my questions:

Starting from seed, what is the best hydro method to start a new crop of mother plants in? I've had mother plants before but have always started and kept them in soil pots but this time I'm trying to start them in hydro in order to promote some faster growth in order to cater better to my perpetual harvest set up that i'm working on setting up. Anyways any ideas on what would work for starting and keeping mother plants?

Thanks for any help. +REP
 

cruzer101

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you need to start small then transplant, just like dirt man.
Start in rapid rooter cubes, let them get a couple inches tall.
When you see roots popping out the sides (not the tap root on the bottom) of the cubes set the cubes in 3 or 4" rockwool cubes. Get the ones with the holes already there and PH the cubes before using them. Then in a couple more weeks the roots will pop out the rockwool cube. Now its time to put them in Warterfarms. Watch them the first week or two cause the water ring on the waterfarms is real wide, it will take a while for the roots to reach it but once they do your mother will produce new growth 30 to 50% faster than if she was in dirt.

You can check out my led/400watt journal below to see how to get them started.
Then my waterfarm journals to see how they grow in them.
 

BlazaBlaze

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Thanks for the reply +rep. Hey do you or does anyone have a link for any plans on a DIY water farm. Im a big do it yourself guy, thats probably the only reason I got into growing in the first place was so I could build and set up a grow room. Thanks again for the help.

Anyone else have any opinion on the matter???
 

Mr. Pine

Member
the best idea i've adopted is start your mothers from clones of your seeds. And keep them in a tray of 4x4 rockwool cubes, taking a few sets of cuttings from them and replacing them with fresh clones before they get to big. This keeps them fresh and you're able to keep them in a smaller space under cfl's. I do this in soil now, but you can use rockwool for hydro uses, make sure you read up on cloning methods with the best success, so you can remove the risk of loosing strains due to clone failure, read up on bonsia mothers
 
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