Picking a Mother Plant...Please Help

Not practicing what you preach?
BigBudE

Plant #3 is turning out to be bush! It has branches everywhere. I imagine it would be a good mother plant mainly becouse of that.
This question is for anybody that wants to answer.
What would your ideal Super Lemon Haze mother plant look like? Short and bushy? tall and branchy? tall and lanky? and why?
Thanks
BigBudE

Anyone there?

BigBudE said:

Plant #3 is turning out to be bush! It has branches everywhere. I imagine it would be a good mother plant mainly becouse of that.
This question is for anybody that wants to answer.
What would your ideal Super Lemon Haze mother plant look like? Short and bushy? tall and branchy? tall and lanky? and why?
Thanks
BigBudE

Click to expand...

My bad, got your thread confused with another.

Well, Im not really wanting any males but you know how that goes...Just looking for a good mother to clone the shit out of. Im going to start cloning a few of each plant from 1-4 and then flower the originals starting tommorow.
Is Urkle a indica dominant strain?
Thanks for posting

im under the impression, that common theory is the thc CONTENT for each plant is pre-determined no matter the size of the plant. meaning a larger plant will produce more bud with less thc concentrations, and the opposite for the smaller plants. smaller plants of the same strain will have higher concentrations of thc while sacrificing overall yeild. this is where YOU DECIDE what you want, quality over quantity, or quantity over quality. if you plan on breeding with her in the future i would pick the smaller one, then find a vigorous male that is slow to flower. the slower flowering males are said to have less of the hemp qualities and better for breeding smoke. that could add to the overall quantity of thc production in the offspring as well as adding some extra girth by picking a vigorous male. i am not an expert so feel free to tell me im wrong but this is what i understand from some experience and a lot of reading, hope it helps...

HottFuzz said:

im under the impression, that common theory is the thc CONTENT for each plant is pre-determined no matter the size of the plant. meaning a larger plant will produce more bud with less thc concentrations, and the opposite for the smaller plants. smaller plants of the same strain will have higher concentrations of thc while sacrificing overall yeild. this is where YOU DECIDE what you want, quality over quantity, or quantity over quality. if you plan on breeding with her in the future i would pick the smaller one, then find a vigorous male that is slow to flower. the slower flowering males are said to have less of the hemp qualities and better for breeding smoke. that could add to the overall quantity of thc production in the offspring as well as adding some extra girth by picking a vigorous male. i am not an expert so feel free to tell me im wrong but this is what i understand from some experience and a lot of reading, hope it helps...

Click to expand...

THC content is measured as a percentage of all cannabinoids. Size of the plant/buds has nothing to do with THC percentage. By your rationale, the small buds you grew as a newb or the smaller buds at the bottom of the plant would be your best product. Additionally, THC content is genetic but throwing a bean in dirt and adding water for 3 months doesn't mean you'll be getting the full genetic potential of said bean. More experienced growers grow higher quality in higher quantities. Lastly, the only way to see what a female has to offer is to clone her, flower her, then select your mom based off the final product.

BigBudE said:

I have a few SLH in the tent that all started at the same time but the difference in the sizes and nod spaces are crazy. Should I pick the biggest one (wich the nod spacing is normal for SLH) or a few of the smaller ones that are less than half the big ones height and has very close node spacing??? Any thoughts will help. I know pictures seem prudent here and i will post some tommorow.
BigBudE

Click to expand...

go with the one with the most nodes, this will allow the most babies.....
imo

peace

Thanks for the input everyone. I appreciate it. Picking a mother can be a hard thing to do sometimes (like now). I'll post some new pictures up either tonight or tommorow morning so you all can see their progress. Hopefully they'll all be female but just couse there "Feminized" doesnt mean there all going to be.
Maybe in the near future i'll breed the SLH to some Chemdog. That would definitly be some killer medicinal smoke.
Thans for the replys
BigBudE

Im not as experienced as some of the other growers here but I picked my super lemon haze moms based on the following criteria:

1) most vigorous grower
2) most nodes (more nodes = more clones also more nodes = more branches = more bud)
3) how fast clones from each mom take root (if it takes an extra week to root from another plant then thats valuable time being wasted thats going to effect your over all yearly yields.... those extra weeks add up after a few grows to be a very significant)
4) how healthy said clones are upon rooting (do they take a week to start growing again with mishaped leaves or do they keep on growing big leaves without skipping a beat.. just like point #3 you dont want to waste time letting the clone rebound... if it takes an extra week every cycle and you do 4 cycles a year then thats a whole month lost come year end.)

What I did not consider was height though. the 2 super lemon haze plants that became my moms were also the 2 tallest plants as well... I vegged some of the clones for 3 weeks (they grew about an inch and half per day under some 1000watters and flipped them into bloom when they were 3 feet tall and now they are easily over 6 foot tall... probably closer to 7 feet. I luckily have a lot of space to grow in but next time im obviously gonna have to veg them for a shorter period of time so I dont have to play time consuming LST games every day with my plants...

I did not test the bud because i figured they would all be good enough.... and even if a slow to clone slow to grow less nodey plant did grow better weed it would take so much longer and be so much more of a hastle that its just not worth it to me.

T