Just sexed them. I had two which looked male - now dead! The other 6 are either female or hermie. They look good though, so I'm confident.
So now I'm down to 6 plants from 10. 1 didn't germinate, 1 died young and two males. I've discarded a further two clones (which are all label so I know which plant they came from), on top of the male ones, as they were not rooting. I don't intend on taking anymore cutting from those plants to replace the ones I discarded... if they don't root easily why would I want it as a mother plant?!?!
I'm going to rate the four clones I got left based on the size of the root mass initially (I would consider this a sign of how easily they can be cloned? ), how rapidly they grow and finally the yield from the plant they came from.
The last point will cause a small problem. The only light I got beside the main 600w is a 2x24w T5. Once everything is setup all I will have is my mother plant and 4 (increasing after a few crops to 8 ) clones, thus such a small T5. Obviously I don't want to discard anymore of the clones until I can see how well the plants yield but, I can't have 4 mother plants plus 4 clones from each under such a small light.
My choices seem to be
- one clone from each plant
- 4 clones from the strongest looking clone
either way, since buying a larger light is not an option, I most likely wont be running my final setup until my 3rd grow.
does anyone have any experience with mother plants and clones? if so how much light? how many mother plants and clones? how long are they left under there? how big are they when you usually move them under your main light.
I want to eventually get a pretty efficient setup where I'm not wasting time or electricity. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks