I got too many moms. A great problem to have i guess. They are like children to me and i cannot part with any of them. I thought there was a thread on here about keeping mother plants small, but cant seem to find it. Help,plz
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I believe this is the thread you are looking for
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I use this method right here. I have 5 moms right now using this method. I really only need 1 or two snips every few months so it works out well for me.
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I’ve been using this method for years. I combine it with small fabric pots so I don’t have to root prune. 
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Yes, thank you friend
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I used bonsais a lot, you can reach insane density in surimposed nurseries. Really usefull to stay on the track for fems junkies.
But i’m from another church now, i just no longer make motherplants and i cycle fast. Perpetual cloning in a way.
I’m a believer of somatic drifs, and if for a personnal library its not critical, there is a bunch of old cuts that can’t handle to age much in veg.
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I use this method as well. But with fabric pots with organic soil on a capillary mat, so they dont dry out on me. Works great!
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What is “somatic drift?”
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The degradation of the intensity of traits by propagation, but from artficial factors. (DNA age or wounds not counted).
Also it extend to sick motherplants etc … to be generalist let’s say that it’s the deleterious consequences of the plant’s defense. Still polemic.
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@ReikoX that’s a great post but what are your thoughts on resetting your mother plants because I’ve heard to keep your moms ready to produce, disease free, and popping out clones with vigorous growth that you should reset them every 3-6 months. Doesn’t seem like you getting the best cut that can be provided if your using a plant years old but thats why I asked your thoughts. I’ve been resetting my mothers 2x a year currently
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Bonsai them…that’s what I used to do
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I prefer this myself, I will take extra and kill all but 1 in the end.
Small plants with small root systems in small pots.
But they do take a bit before you can take clones again, but I just rotate through the mothers I have/had and by the time I get back to her she is plenty big enough to take many clones.
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I reset my mothers every so often. Usually when I have a lot of extra clones or I want to flower them.out to make seed. I just did this recently actually.
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I’m rocking coco/perilite in solo cups. Top and train to your liking, reset with a fresh clone whenever you feel it’s nessesary. I’ve gone from a whole tent to a couple 27gal totes with about 40 watts of light total in them.
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been using a duel socket with 2 11-watt ‘grow’ leds in a 1.5 x 3. i also have a 2x2 with 2 13-watt cfls and i think it works a little better. both are super slow growth.
Theres a little tidbit i took off of DJ Short on an old hash church episode or odd potcast he did DJ says he likes to plant his mothers right in the ground as early spring as he can get them so they dont try to flip.He grows the plant out a bit and takes new cuts and keeps the best one as a new mother.He has kept the original Flo for years this way and shes as good as the day he popped her.Oldtimer1 was also a nonbeliever in genetic drift.He claimed the plants he had that day were as good if not better than when he found or was given them due to better grow technology.I don’t think he was taking in HLVD as when he wrote that it wasnt to well known about if even at all.Ive bee using a product @OldUncleBen turned me on to called MicroKote.Its a product with copper and plant nutrients embedded into a red paint.You paint your pots with it and it chemically prunes your roots like an fabric pot and feeds them micronutrients at the same but caution
time not a replacement for regular maintenance feeding Keeps your water better than a fabric but root trim is needed for extreme long term plants.Root system become complex masses that slice with an old bread knife like going through bread machine bread loaves Male in pic is almost 6 months Bonsai inn that same painted pot.
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