How LONG is a MOTHER good for?
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harrysmol420
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I saw in the Cannabis grow bible a mother can live for 12 years
GypsyBush
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With proper care, a mom can last indefinitely...
That would include trimming the rootball periodically... otherwise, after a few years, there is simply no airspace left for new roots to grow...
With no new roots, the plant will eventually get sick and die...
So it is just WAYYYY EASIER to replace your mom stocks with new clones every year or so...
Cheers...
That would include trimming the rootball periodically... otherwise, after a few years, there is simply no airspace left for new roots to grow...
With no new roots, the plant will eventually get sick and die...
So it is just WAYYYY EASIER to replace your mom stocks with new clones every year or so...
Cheers...
homegrownboy
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In parts of the world that it grows wildly, there are 50 year+ plants, but they have all the gorund space they need to grow, one high times article showed somewhere in brazil i think that someone had a 30 year old plant (bush) growing along side the persons house.
There is no set # of clones you can get...it all depends on the enviroment your growng it in, if the plant is able to get 5-6' tall then you should be able to get quite a few clones in one session...considering you don't want to kill the mother, that means taking no more then 40% of the plants branches, take too much and it'll shock the plant too much and it will die.
GypsyBush
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You are right.. there are 50 year old bushes.. I have seen some REALLY OLD ones in a farm in Kansas... left over from the HEMP FOR VICTORY days..
But it's not the same plant that lives for that long... it is a BUNCH of plants (male and female) that breed and drop seed every year...
In the wild cannabis works this way.... it perpetuates the species by dropping seeds before every winter...
As for how much you can take from a mom and not kill her...
I do THIS and sometimes WORSE.. EVERY TWO WEEKS...
But it's not the same plant that lives for that long... it is a BUNCH of plants (male and female) that breed and drop seed every year...
In the wild cannabis works this way.... it perpetuates the species by dropping seeds before every winter...
As for how much you can take from a mom and not kill her...
I do THIS and sometimes WORSE.. EVERY TWO WEEKS...
greensister
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I asked a question very similar to this in another thread. You are not going to get a satisfactory answer. Almost everyone keeps a mother for less than a year. The only way you are really gonna know the answer is figure it out yourself by doing it. Thats my plan as well.
GypsyBush
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I thought I gave a pretty straight fwd answer here...
With proper care, a mom can last indefinitely...
That would include trimming the rootball periodically... otherwise, after a few years, there is simply no airspace left for new roots to grow...
With no new roots, the plant will eventually get sick and die...
So it is just WAYYYY EASIER to replace your mom stocks with new clones every year or so...
Cheers...
C
chitownsmoking
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ive heard 20 plus years for origenal clones......... some say they lose there vigor or start to at like 3 years or so. i mainly grow from seed.