I grew some seed out and kept mother’s to clone from its all been going great. I’ve only had these mothers for about 4 months and they seem to be stretching like they are going to flower. these are not autos.
They are red cherry berry x remedy and rcb x glacier from @Sebring. Im using 2 t5 lights 24 hours. Is it that they are not getting enough light? I can add more.
So the alternating internodes is not a problem then? Good. I have 9 mothers until the clones are done and i can narrow it down to two. One remedy and one glacier. Then i will start two new strains and do the same.
Also, I am trying to mother their Auntie RCB8 and am discovering that my porch-light is too weak to maintain veg & the plant’s caught between re-veg & bloom.
Yours look fine & the previous replies are spot on.
Allowing 2-4 hrs of dark might help slow them down too.
Just hack them back, mine get regularly decapitated to keep them fitting in the small tent I house them in. It will help them bush out and give you more potential clones as well. I am brutal with mine, and the seem to bounce back fine. I also root prune them every once in a while if they are getting rootbound, but I hear those airpots mean this is not necessary. Also I feed mine flower nutrients with low nitrogen and a good amount of sargassum kelp to promote branching.
Ya I’m ruthless with moms too. Mine get full strength veg nutes (megacrop) and keep kicking along just fine. I also hack them back indiscriminately and they don’t mine at all. They’re under 4 compact fluorescent spiral bulbs which they just love.
Since I’ve switched to coco I have some in tiny pots that are like 3" cubed and I can’t believe how happy they’ve been the whole time. I have to hack them every week or so they just keep growing.