Need to build a small "Mother" room

I'm no outdoor pro but my outdoor stuff seems to be rolling along fine. I have two strains I want to keep going. Photos below:

Here is my bush. She is supposed to be LA Confindential but I have my doubts. I would love to keep this strain going. Dense would be the understatement of the year.

This is one of my two Dutch Passion White Widows. She is a very strong grower. She's a little small cause of the late start. But I want to clone/mother her as well. By mid Septemeber she will be looking mighty tastey.

This photo is a little old. Notice how hard she is praying to the setting sun. 95degrees and she's loving it.

Here is one of my two White Berry's.
Check out the handle bar shoots at the bottom.

I have a nice cloning setup being built out right now.

I could use some advice on how to build an efficient, and cheap room for a few mothers. Nothing crazy. I may only have three to five mothers going at any one time.

I'd like to have it sit right on top of my cloning cabinet.

With the mothers, how do you stop them from growing so tall? Do you just keep harvesting from her to keep her size down. I will read some more on how often you should take cuttings from one plant but my guess is you don't want to keep chopping a single mother forever.

What's up RUI friends. Point me in the right direction.

You could eliminate the need for a separate mother box by taking clones from your clones.

ink the world said:

You could eliminate the need for a separate mother box by taking clones from your clones.

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I'm trying to copy a set up a friend of mine did years ago. He would only clone from his mothers and his cuttings off his mothers were huge. Most say to take rather small cuttings. He would take big, thick and tall cuttings. Conventional trimming...just really thick and tall. More like branches instead of cuttings. Some up to 10" tall and stems nearly 1/4" of an inch thick. 3/16" if we want to get hard core

I grasp the concept of cloning off of clones. I just don't think I can get the big branches I need off the clones if I want to mirror this set up.

For his clones he was using super cheap Walmart Flouro's. Clones were absolute beasts that rooted nicely. Once transplanted they took off very well.

I'm just trying to copy him...I'd call him but he's dead.

"Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead"

I'm thinknig one good light source...some fans...a couple pans. Might go with rockwool.

Dubs Im in the same boat as you with the Mothers. i have some WW i want to keep as mothers.

From what Ive read around the site. You can keep them going with some CFL lights Im about to build a liitle box with some CFLS on top and a small fan.

Just give them nutes every once in a while and take my cuttings as needed. Your moms shouldn't be more than 2' tall so i cant see why a little grow box wouldn't suffice. I plan on 3-4 with some variety strains.

good luck and leave the handicapped bugs alone man.
~Joe

Joe Camel said:

Dubs Im in the same boat as you with the Mothers. i have some WW i want to keep as mothers.

From what Ive read around the site. You can keep them going with some CFL lights Im about to build a liitle box with some CFLS on top and a small fan.

Just give them nutes every once in a while and take my cuttings as needed. Your moms shouldn't be more than 2' tall so i cant see why a little grow box wouldn't suffice. I plan on 3-4 with some variety strains.

good luck and leave the handicapped bugs alone man.
~Joe

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NOT FAIR!!! You must have read my post on that grasshopper. I gave him a few days to move on. Even let him eat a little. When you're due you're due...

I'll post pics of this old sewing machine cabinet that I'm gutting to use as a cloning cabinet.

Mothers on CFL's??? I would think you would want your mothers treated like a true grow (sorry cfl guys). I want the mothers to be big and as strong as possible. Just fit within my grow limitations.

i use t5 for my mothers never had a prob with them work well

dhhbomb said:

i use t5 for my mothers never had a prob with them work well

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Here you go mate.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=31919

Will5437 said:

Here you go mate.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=31919

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Nice. Thanks. I'll check it out in a bit. Gotta run!

I keep my mothers in 5 gallon buckets filled with granulated rockwool, under t5's. With regular trimming it's pretty easy to keep them small. If you just cut off all the main growth ends about once a week you will end up with a little bush that will allow you to harvest tons of clones when needed. I can fit three under one 4 bulb t5 fixture. I let mine get a little bigger than you are talking cause I have plenty of space so you might be able to fit 4 or 5 if you put them in smaller containers.

Also as far as how long you can keep taking cuttings for the only issue I have had is the plant simply getting to big from all the old leftover growth. Like you cut off a shoot then the two side branches grow out. So you have a little length added. Do this over and over and eventually you have a plant that is taking up a lot of space with old branches that can't be removed because your new growth tips are way out on the ends. I have never seen a plant stop producing new branches and I'm pretty sure it's a myth that the plant is only good for a certain amount of time.

DubsFan said:

Nice. Thanks. I'll check it out in a bit. Gotta run!

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"I'm pretty sure it's a myth that the plant is only good for a certain amount of time."

I here both sides all the time. My guess is that DNA is DNA. I understand why you would want to discard a mother once her size and lack of efficiency become prohibitive.

DubsFan said:

"I'm pretty sure it's a myth that the plant is only good for a certain amount of time."

I here both sides all the time. My guess is that DNA is DNA. I understand why you would want to discard a mother once her size and lack of efficiency become prohibitive.

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That was a good read. It's an old article that's been kept alive for about 9 years now. Lighting has changed substially. I guess you could keep a mother going on a GE Flouro???