shinedog
Active Member
So, I've been growing a little over a year now and I'm starting to feel a little more confident in my skills.
When I first started like most I had no clue what I was doing. (Not to say that I know everything now). Unfortunately, I screwed up a lot, but managed to learn from it. In my screw ups I never managed to really hone in on phenotypes of the strain I was growing.
That leads me to my question. I have always taken my clones from the plants that I was transferring from veg into flowering. I've found this to be very inefficient in the long run and I was never really able to establish a strong pheno. I'm really curious about developing a mother plant to pull my clones from. I would think that while I could keep a mother plant alive in my veg room it wouldn't take too much to basically rape her of all of her nodes. Is there an art to this? Am I missing the strategy of doing this properly? I want to make sure before I order my next beans that I have this element figured out so that I can establish the best phenos and keep them for the long haul.
When I first started like most I had no clue what I was doing. (Not to say that I know everything now). Unfortunately, I screwed up a lot, but managed to learn from it. In my screw ups I never managed to really hone in on phenotypes of the strain I was growing.
That leads me to my question. I have always taken my clones from the plants that I was transferring from veg into flowering. I've found this to be very inefficient in the long run and I was never really able to establish a strong pheno. I'm really curious about developing a mother plant to pull my clones from. I would think that while I could keep a mother plant alive in my veg room it wouldn't take too much to basically rape her of all of her nodes. Is there an art to this? Am I missing the strategy of doing this properly? I want to make sure before I order my next beans that I have this element figured out so that I can establish the best phenos and keep them for the long haul.