yeah I dialed it back because i was worried the stems were getting too fat 
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Haha! That’s a good problem to have! 
I was worried that thicker stems meant harder time to root 
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Crap! Is that a thing? Damn! Maybe that’s why my cuts take so long to root? 
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I use fabric pots and their big benefit to me is that plants don’t get root bound in fabric pots. In plastic, the root hits the wall of the pot and starts circling. You wind up with a lot of long ropey roots with a few hairs coming off of them.
With a fabric pot, the root tip grows right through the bag and when it hits the air it dies. When the tip dies, the root fiber responds by shooting out root hairs, and that means more surface area.
I think they’d be perfect for bonsai mother plants because you don’t have to prune the roots. In fact, there’s someone here on OG who makes small pots out of landscape fabric for his bonsai mothers. I have a sewing machine my mom gave me, and my sister-in-law is gonna show me how to use it. Little fabric pots are the first thing I’m gonna make. 
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Those fabric ones rock…I used a burlap sack rice can in…works good the only thing a tray is very necessary under them
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That would be me. I feed my bonsai mothers a low dose of megacrop (about 1/2 teaspoon per gallon) every other watering.
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Hey! I’m glad you saw this @ReikoX. Once I figure this sewing machine out, I will be trying to replicate your design. That’s a great idea man. 
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I imagine it could be. I think when taking cuttings for clones you want the stem to still have some freshness to it and not hard and wooded like when it ages a bit. I have always stuck to that balance between soft new growth and old hard growth and my success rate for cloning over the last 2 years has been 100% and all rooted within 8 days
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Nice. That’s something to keep in mind. I usually have %100 success rate, but sometimes my clones take over two weeks to root!
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Hello @ReikoX. I was just wondering, are you in soil or coco for your bonsai mother plants?
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Good question, it’s been recycled so much I’m not even sure. I think most of it is sphagnum peat moss, compost, and perlite.
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All of my plants get the same feed pretty much at all times. Jack’s 5-12-26, Calcium Nitrate and Cal-Mag:
| Total | 694 |
|---|---|
| Nitrogen (N) | 147 |
| Phosphorous § | 50 |
| Potassium (K) | 205 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 131 |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 75 |
| Silicon (Si) | 0.0 |
| Sulphur (S) | 80.8 |
For plants less than two weeks old, I dilute to 50% with extra water.
For a few weeks in flower, I add in 1.6g of Mono Potassium Phosphate per gallon of water (weeks 2.5 through 6):
| Total | 909 |
|---|---|
| Nitrogen (N) | 147 |
| Phosphorous § | 146 |
| Potassium (K) | 325 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 131 |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 75 |
| Silicon (Si) | 0.0 |
| Sulphur (S) | 80.8 |
Although I’m not currently running mother plants, when I do they get the same nutrients as any other vegging plant listed in the first chart above.
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What do you guys feed your mother plants and what’s the feeding schedule?Oldtimer1 says use maxicrop for a foliar but there’s a shit ton of maxicrop mixes I’m assuming he’s was using the original maxi crop.
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Any complete nutrient should do it. I’ve fed mine Schultz 10-15-10 and fish emulsion, Megacrop 1 part, and most recently Jack’s 321. All worked well. Generally I do a water-feed-water-feed under low light conditions to keep them happy but growing slow.
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I had a gnat problem that I brought indoors with some bagged soil. Mom’s (bonsai) and my four 5 gallon grow bags in tent as well. Gnatrol helped but these guys put an end to it.
https://www.naturesgoodguys.com/collections/fungus-gnat-control/products/hypoaspis-miles-predatory-mites-12-500-insects
That was at least two months ago and I don’t see anymore. I got my usb microscope out and can still see some crawling around since the are said to eat small bits of decomposing plant matter in the top of the soil. I crush and crumble up the occasional dead leaves and leave them on the top of soil.
I also scooped up some of them to transplant to my next cuts in small pots for next grow. Going to check with my scope again in a couple weeks before final up pot to main tent when current grow gets taken down. Sorry for long post.