Mother Plants?

[Infamous 1]

Is it ok to cut excess fan leaves off of mother plants? I dont see why not because they are not producing buds. I know that fan leaves are pretty much stored nutrients for the plant. So is it ok or not. Any help would be great thanks...

[Help_Needed]

Originally Posted by Infamous 1

Is it ok to cut excess fan leaves off of mother plants? I dont see why not because they are not producing buds. I know that fan leaves are pretty much stored nutrients for the plant.

Uh.....mother plants aren't supposed to produce buds. You use them to make clones and you use the clones to produce bud. And the fan leaves do more than store nutrients, they collect light, which is used to make food to feed the plant.

Since you're going to be periodically removing all the new growth from your mother plant when you take your cuttings, you want to leave the large fan leaves and older growth on. Otherwise, Mom's going to get hungry and maybe die on you.

[Infamous 1]

Thanks Help_Needed

[GigZ-16]

Agreed

[harvester]

Originally Posted by Help_Needed

Uh.....mother plants aren't supposed to produce buds. You use them to make clones and you use the clones to produce bud. And the fan leaves do more than store nutrients, they collect light, which is used to make food to feed the plant.

Since you're going to be periodically removing all the new growth from your mother plant when you take your cuttings, you want to leave the large fan leaves and older growth on. Otherwise, Mom's going to get hungry and maybe die on you.

Why would she get hungry without the lower fan leaves? Die? lol

If the leaves are excess just cut them off... and i always advise that moms be flowered after 3 months, a clone should be used to replace her.

Your mom plant wouldn't die even if you removed ALL the large fan leaves. The smaller leaves are perfectly capable of taking in light. Do not worry about your mom plant, she's there to be abused.

[Help_Needed]

Originally Posted by harvester

Why would she get hungry without the lower fan leaves? Die? lol

I guess it depends on how large your mom's are, and how aggressively you prune when you take your cuttings. My moms are kept small, and when I take cuttings for clones I pretty much remove ALL of the new growth. If I also removed the large fan leaves, I'd end up with a plant that was just a bunch of sticks.

[harvester]

Originally Posted by Help_Needed

I guess it depends on how large your mom's are, and how aggressively you prune when you take your cuttings. My moms are kept small, and when I take cuttings for clones I pretty much remove ALL of the new growth. If I also removed the large fan leaves, I'd end up with a plant that was just a bunch of sticks.

Unless you need to keep turning over clones very quickly (in which case you should put her in a bubbler anyway) I see no need to take care of a mom plant. I train my moms properly by a series of tops... and I could qwuite happily pull of every single fan leaf and the plant wouldn't die. So could you, noi matter how aggressively you claim to prune. You might be left with what APPEARS to be a bunch of sticks... but yoyur mom plant would continue to sprout new shoots.

It most certainly would not die.

[Help_Needed]

Originally Posted by harvester

Unless you need to keep turning over clones very quickly (in which case you should put her in a bubbler anyway) I see no need to take care of a mom plant. I train my moms properly by a series of tops... and I could qwuite happily pull of every single fan leaf and the plant wouldn't die. So could you, noi matter how aggressively you claim to prune. You might be left with what APPEARS to be a bunch of sticks... but yoyur mom plant would continue to sprout new shoots.

It most certainly would not die.

Prove it.

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume we were looking at OP's question from different angles because of our different growing experiences. But then I followed your link to Skunk School and read your wonderfully enlightening post on breeding - a post that was stolen, verbatim, from someone else's work - and I looked at the generic and generally unhelpful advice you've been handing out in the Sick Plant forum. It's pretty obvious that you have little or no actual growing experience but for whatever reason you're trying to make a name for yourself in the MJ growing community.

So, I'm wondering. Are you a poser, or a cop, or maybe both?

So yeah, prove it. Let see some pictures of your grow op. Better yet, show me a pic of a mother plant that's been stripped of all of it's new growth AND all of it's fan leaves that still managed to recover.

[doob3r]

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^^ beat me to it lol

[harvester]

ever heard of regeneration?

I'll ignore the rest of what you've said apart from this wrong information i've been giving out. Maybe you should start a thread about it and we'll discuss the aspects of my ineptitude.

and yes, i will relate that post back to the original poster but the place i got it from had no link to that. It is obviously a cut n paste, as anyone that knows me knows that I do not breed plants. I just grow them. That site is very young and hardly anyone goes there atm... i was already berated over there for posting that without stating the original poster. I am certainly not claiming to be a breeder, but i do like to read... and i thought it would be a good read for someone else too.

I also have nothing to prove... everyone knows that cannabis will continue to produce NEW shoots all the way through flower even. You could most likely leave a stalk and root system and a shoot would pop out. It wouldn't die.

[notsonuts_1949]

Originally Posted by harvester

ever heard of regeneration?

I'll ignore the rest of what you've said apart from this wrong information i've been giving out. Maybe you should start a thread about it and we'll discuss the aspects of my ineptitude.

and yes, i will relate that post back to the original poster but the place i got it from had no link to that. It is obviously a cut n paste, as anyone that knows me knows that I do not breed plants. I just grow them. That site is very young and hardly anyone goes there atm... i was already berated over there for posting that without stating the original poster. I am certainly not claiming to be a breeder, but i do like to read... and i thought it would be a good read for someone else too.

I also have nothing to prove... everyone knows that cannabis will continue to produce NEW shoots all the way through flower even. You could most likely leave a stalk and root system and a shoot would pop out. It wouldn't die.

really dont think you were asked if you read i think you were asked if you grow or have grown!!!!!!

[harvester]

Originally Posted by notsonuts_1949

really dont think you were asked if you read i think you were asked if you grow or have grown!!!!!!

http://www.drskunk.com/skunkskool/vi...2d4b7bb8f49d07

the answer to both of those questions would be yes.

[Dewave]

Leave the fan leaves on, they help keep the main stem healthy while you take the cuttings.... esp with banzai's.... if ya take them it will just slow the process.

Dewave

[doob3r]

Originally Posted by harvester

http://www.drskunk.com/skunkskool/vi...2d4b7bb8f49d07

the answer to both of those questions would be yes.

dang....... thats quite a journal...quite the stretch goin on

[harvester]

Originally Posted by doob3r

dang....... thats quite a journal...quite the stretch goin on

Obviously you just looked at the first few pictures... maybe I used too many long words.