Issue #644 - Sunday, August 25, 2024 Greetings Fellow Grower, Today's issue is about applying the art of bonsai to weed! - Bonsai cannabis plants are clone factories - It's true. Bonsai cannabis plants are little clone factories which also makes them bud factories. It's a fun project
that pays for itself in multiple ways: Bonsais are beautiful and nice to look at, and when you're done enjoying the view, it'll make a whole bunch of baby plants!
- Bonsai the fantastic stuff! If you're going to make a little factory in your house, it should produce fantastic stuff. Don't clone a bunch of "Doo-Doo Kush-4", clone something that will make future-you thank present-you for your foresight!
- There's a monster lurking in the
trophy pics... What happens when you grow a huge plant that grows into a monster that's big enough to take your lunch money? If you're the grower in the Trophy Pics, you tame, make it look amazing, and politely ask it to return said lunch money.
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"All great achievements require time." ~Maya Angelou
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How to Create a Bonsai Mother for Unlimited Clones by Oldtimer1 (foreword and adaptation by Nebula Haze)
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Click here to view the full article on GrowWeedEasy.com This tutorial is a condensed version of the classic “How to Keep a Bonsai Mum”
article written by the legendary Oldtimer1. Although the original article was published in 2000, this bonsai training method recently resurfaced and has become popular for hobbyist cannabis growers without a lot of space. With so many people growing at home these days, this technique is more useful now than ever. Free Clones Forever! (How do I make clones?) These 8-month-old marijuana bonsai mother plants are based on this tutorial. In addition to the sunny window, a bright lightbulb shines nearby for 14+ hours a day to keep them in the vegetative stage. An easy and fun way to hold onto genetics! ~Nebula Haze
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This tutorial will teach you how to turn a cannabis plant into a bonsai mother (giving you access to unlimited free clones!) But what is a mother plant? A “mother” is a plant you keep alive so you can take clones whenever you want (the clones are the “children” which is where the term “mother” comes from). Learn how to clone cannabis plants in a cup of
water (easiest but slow), with seedling plugs (almost as easy but faster), or in an aerocloner (fastest). One common reason growers keep mothers is to save money by producing new
cannabis plants for free (or at least basically free). The other is to hold onto good genetics. If you have a plant that grows beautifully and produces good yields of high-quality bud, you may want to save the genetics so you can grow the plant again in a future grow. A clone will grow the same as the mother plant. Instead of having to pay for each seed from a seed bank, a mother plant can be used to create almost unlimited new clones of itself. In addition to not costing anything, new clones are more predictable than seeds from random crosses. Seeds carry a mix of traits from both parent plants, some of which may be recessive attributes, while each clone consistently grows just like the mother. Taking clones can save a ton of money versus buying seeds
because each new plant is simply cut off the mother and grown into a full plant Cloning can be a big money saver over buying individual seeds, but frugality isn’t the only reason to keep mother plants. Sometimes it’s about saving great genetics. Certain cannabis plants are so special they beg to be cloned so more people can enjoy them. If you ever identify a particularly great plant, you can actually take clones of it and turn them into mother plants. You can even take clones in the flowering stage if you just can’t let a certain plant go. Clones are made by cutting off the ends of branches and planting those pieces so they grow roots. These “cuttings” grow into full plants that are a genetic clone of the mother. When you grow and harvest them, the characteristics will be
basically identical to the mother plant. Why would you want a bonsai mother? Unlike a commercial grower, most home growers don’t have a lot of grow space to dedicate purely to housing mother plants. Keeping each mother small, like a bonsai tree, lets you maintain a huge selection of genetics in a small grow space without very much electricity. The bonsai mother technique has become a staple for
indoor growers who want to keep a huge variety of genetics in a small cannabis garden. This version of the tutorial cuts out extra discussion and leaves just the instructions with pictures. This way you can get straight to bonsai-ing. But if you ever have a little extra time for some fun and interesting discussion, I highly recommend reading the original article in its entirety by Oldtimer1. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create and maintain many small mother plants in a tiny grow space. Each mother plant can produce hundreds of new clones over time, so you basically gain the power to produce unlimited new plants for free! Example of a bonsai plant by Don de Marco Part 1: How to Create a Bonsai Mother PlantThis tutorial will show you how to create a fully established bonsai mother plant. This bonsai mother, if well-fed, will be able to produce 10 to 30 good cuttings every 14 days under an HID grow light, or every 20 days under a fluorescent grow
light. This means a 4 ft x 2 ft shop light with 18 mother plants could produce an output of over 9500 cuttings a year. Typical Bonsai Mum That’s not intensive production, but it allows the connoisseur to keep a good selection of strain varieties in a relatively small space. 1.) Put Chosen Mother in a Square PotLet’s start by turning a rooted cutting into a mother plant. This is simple. With every batch of clones, there are always a few that stand out because they generally appear sturdier and better looking overall.
Pick one or two of these to make your mother plant. Remember this mother plant will provide you with cuttings 4 to 18 times a year for the next 3 to 15 years, so only the best will do. Note: I find square pots are much easier to deal with when it comes to root pruning, as you will see later. Pick a fully rooted through cutting and put it in a 2.5-inch square pot. Don't Waste Your Time Making Bonsai Mother Plants With Weak Strains! Turning a cannabis plant into a bountiful mother bonsai plant is as fun as it's productive. You end up with a beautiful mini-tree that makes weed plants! However, it's important that you
clone/preserve strains that are worth your time. So skip on cloning that unknown strain from the stranger you met in a dark alley and stick with something that'll make you thank yourself later. Here are a few examples: - Apple Fritter by Seed
Supreme – This strain is an absolute juggernaut when it comes to potency, so this is one I wouldn't mind cloning. It's so strong that it comes with a warning for beginners to be wary. I'll bet seasoned smokers are feeling challenged now...
- Kushberry Moonrocks - Achieves soaring THC levels above 30%. Easy to grow and buds look/smell amazing (also available in autoflowering form: Kushberry Moonrocks Auto).
- Platinum Cookies by Seed Supreme – Excellent bud quality
and potency. Check out my full review here and also my grow journal featuring this strain. The Platinum Cookies we grew was a crowd favorite for its potent effects!
- Bonus: Planet of the Grapes by Ethos Genetics – I used to love grape-flavored strains, but they got harder and
harder to find. Then I found this strain. It is a delicious combination of the grape smell from the old days, but with modern potency, excellent bud structure, and BIG yields.
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: Monster Plant Transforms into Behemoth
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"This was a Tropicanna Cookies I forgot about till it got too big. I had decided to scrog it once I got it in the flower room. I started to untangle all the branches and figured I had
just enough room for a single plant scrog. My room is only 6x10, the plant now is almost 6x about 8. I put her in a 7-gallon grow bag feeding dry nutes, with tap water. Today is the 14th of August she's been in flower for 2 weeks. I'll defoliate at the end of week 3. Kicking back watching her get heavy." ~John Henry
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Ay yi yi! It's hard to believe that one (admittedly huge) plant turned into this room-filling monster. I hope you're proud of this job! If not, don't worry, I'm proud enough for both of us. ~Sirius Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to today's main theme of solving common plant issues. - How to Clone Weed in
a Cup of Water (Easy!) - Cloning can seem like a big, annoying job...but only if you let it be that way. Did you know that you can make cannabis plant clones only using a cup, some water and a bit of light? We thought it sounded too good to be true, but as long as you're okay with waiting a bit, it's the real deal!
- Picture Guide to
Cloning Marijuana - Is the method above a bit too easy for you? Maybe you're old school and like doing things the OG /right way. No matter the case, this method is a tried and true way to produce a bunch of clones without much work.
- How to Make Cannabis Clones with an Aero Cloner - Warning: this method of making
clones is reserved for weed growers who are also part-time wizards. It's not that this method is tough (it's actually super easy). I just want you to be prepared for the amount of cannabis cloning power this method will bestow upon you. 🧙♂️
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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