Best Way To Keep Mothers in Hydro Setup?

[New Holland]

Hello fellow growers

I need to setup some mothers. I was going to use Coco. But I'm thinking maybe DWC?. I'd like a setup that I'd only need to check every second day. Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Sup, I'm vegging some mothers in CoCo at the moment. They are plants I started from seed and the Coco is pretty good, but hand-watering a dozen plants every day blows. So I'd only recommend coco if your using a drip system or something. Once I have it down to a single "keeper" I'll veg out 4 or 5 clones into new moms and keep them short and bonsai like in a mega-garden or some other small e&f system. Good Luck

 

[CLONER]

Why not just put them in 3 gal buckets of dirt. Water them every 4/5 days.Not that much work and they will produce a ton of clones.
Feed them every third or fourth watering and your good to go
Works for me and I can and do 3 to 400 babys every two weeks from ten moms
Cloner

 

[mid-east-stone]

yep, i am with cloner

yep, i am with cloner

you don't need the fast grow of hydro, and the pain is way over the gain.
put them in soil, cfl them and woila!
m.

 

[chosen]

I use dwc for some of my mommas. You just can't give them too many nutes and/or light. The other thing is that you have to prune the roots a little.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

I was told to go dirt to keep my moms for a large source of clones. I have not made the switch yet but working on it.

 

[Uncle Remus]

Heres what I was gonna try

How about a wick system...Plant your mothers in say 1/2 gallon or so containers in Perlite and feed them 1/4 strenght nutes for a 2 days, then only water for the rest of the week...Water only will keep them from growing big, and the 1/4 nutes will keep them healthy...Trim when size gets too big, and when necessary, trim back the roots

And as always put an airstone in your rez

 

[turbo14]

I keep my mommas in 5 gallon DWC setup, I have 4 of them. Simple air stone, 1/4 grow nutes and karma under a t5 Pioneer. They are beautiful bushes I take clones often, Very lush green.