Techniques to Keep mother plants small

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ImpulsiveGrower

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Hey fam what or some techniques you use to keep small mother plants. I’m experimenting with a plant in a 4 in square pot and I’m seeing how long I can keep it happy before transplanting back into the same 4in square pot. I will do this by shaving off a half inch or so on all sides even the bottom. After that I’ll sprinkle some mycorrhizae fungi on the remaining roots and replant.

i also have some moms in 2 gal plastic pots and plant to do the same thing. How do you keep your mother plants?

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mysticepipedon

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So how is the bonsai thing working out? I always meant to try it. Instead, mothers get too big, so I take a cut and then flower the mother. Probably not a good idea, but I don't seem to have spread any diseases, at this point.
 
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I don't keep mothers anymore. But when I did I kept them under 4000K light or 4500K light. Blue light keeps them short and squat with node spacing as close and tight as a deck of playing cards. For this reason I keep my seedlings and plants for a min. of 3 weeks under a HLG 100 V2 4000K.
 
ImpulsiveGrower

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So how is the bonsai thing working out? I always meant to try it. Instead, mothers get too big, so I take a cut and then flower the mother. Probably not a good idea, but I don't seem to have spread any diseases, at this point.
So far so good I forgot to include a picture of that small one in the 4in square pot but she’s still happy. The plant is a lot smaller and more manageable that’s forsure. I do have to water it a lot more tho once in the morning and once at night when I come home from work.
 
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I don't keep mothers anymore. But when I did I kept them under 4000K light or 4500K light. Blue light keeps them short and squat with node spacing as close and tight as a deck of playing cards. For this reason I keep my seedlings and plants for a min. of 3 weeks under a HLG 100 V2 4000K.
You start from seed now or get clones from someone? Ya I plan to use my viparspectra quantum boards which are more on the blue side.
 
ImpulsiveGrower

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I just chop em down to only a couple nodes
How big are they when you do that tho? That seems extreme lol I would be afraid of it not coming back from that stress and losing the genetics. If I can hack em down pretty far tho that could work so thanx for the input.
 
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I run a 2x2x4 with a 2’ kind veg bar Currently I have 4 moms that I like to keep for about 6 months before I grow out a new one. I like to run cycles every three weeks and about every 2 month I will grow out a mom. I start all my clones in small 3x3x3 pots until they stall then transplant to 4x4x8 for the rest of their days and have no problem with them having issues with a 1 part GH feed program. I’ve messed around with bonsai I don’t think it’s worth all the fuss unless you are looking for the novelty of it. Here are some pics of what I have done for moms. I messed around with trimming roots and all on the ones that I bent and it is just way more of a mess than it’s worth.
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blue berry, royal gorilla, honey banana, birds of paradise, and my newest mom search catpiss. Hopefully one of the 7 I have will be worth it
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Keep them short still get up to 10 off this plant and get more in three weeks
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packed house
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Too much time.
 
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