Picking a Mother Plant...Please Help

I have a few SLH in the tent that all started at the same time but the difference in the sizes and nod spaces are crazy. Should I pick the biggest one (wich the nod spacing is normal for SLH) or a few of the smaller ones that are less than half the big ones height and has very close node spacing??? Any thoughts will help. I know pictures seem prudent here and i will post some tommorow.
BigBudE

Got any pics?

That's a tough call as you sound like you have a few phenol types (variations in the plant) and the best way is to clone and grow out, than smoke than make the call. Not practical for everyone so I would go with the most vigorous plant, who looks the best and grows the best, that's your new mom.

By the way picking one now won't work unless they are all fem, otherwise it could turn out to be a male. Even with fem it could happen.

Take a few clones of each, grow all of the mature plants out, pick your favorite plant and grow the corresponding clones in to mothers.

Go with what woodsman said, clone all of them. Finish your grow, smoke your smoke. Then decide which ones you keep as a mother, flower the rest. Keep the plant you liked the most, and grew the best throughout the whole grow too.

Thanks for the thoughts everyone. I still cant get over how much of a difference in sizes there are between the 5 of them. I post some pics here soon and do a poll or something along those lines.
BigBudE

Okay, Heres the pics of them. PLEASE tell me what you think.The Plants are numberd but I dont know if you can see them well enough. All these were germmed and started at the same time so yep there all the same age. Is this an example of 2 different pheno's??? #1 is deffinitely the healthy more common way the SLH normally grows. My tent is 4x8x7 so height might be an issue but probaly not.
Thanks all.
BigBudE

Hey man, nobody else can pick your mothers for you. A mother should grow how you want it to grow. Finish up this grow, and pick the one which best suits your needs: Potency, yield, height, bushiness, etc. If you have a huge grow room, or greenhouse and can fit any plant any size, then the one that stretches huge but puts out great chronic is the one you want go for it...but if you dont have the space that plant isn't practical, and you need the shorter plant that put out the second best chronic....understand what I'm trying to say? Nobody else can pick your mother. Personally either way clone them all and flower them out.

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Number two seems like its doing the best anyway.

Others have mentioned it already and this is what you've got to do: take a few cuttings from each plant and number them. Flower out your plants and choose the plant that best fits your needs. That could be yield or structure or the end product but there is no way to look at your five plants right now and be able to judge anything other than a growth pattern.

Thanks all. I know im the only one that can pick the mother I want,tough as that may be
BigBudE

Nobody has mentioned picking your mom based on characteristics within the pheno that you want to use, of course clone the lot to secure the genetic material and then finish to witness the final outcome but make your decisions based on desired traits like shortness etc.

Thanks for the input.
If anyone else wants to add somethimg please do.
BigBudE

Don't pick a mother until you test the smoke in my opinion.

You might want to keep the big plant for outdoor.

Im used to dealing with clones all the same size, so with the size variants here im not sure when should I go into flower. Any ideas? I do plan on letting them veg a while longer. Dont know if you can tell but there in 7gal pots. All organic grow using Super Soil.First time using the SS so hopefully ittll do great.
Thanks
BigBudE

newworldicon said:

Nobody has mentioned picking your mom based on characteristics within the pheno that you want to use, of course clone the lot to secure the genetic material and then finish to witness the final outcome but make your decisions based on desired traits like shortness etc.

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You obviously didn't read my posts.

jewgrow said:

You obviously didn't read my posts.

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If I had little gold stars I would give you one I totally missed what you were saying as I was mesmerised by Moses meeting the burning bush man.

harvest time id probally be best off harvesting 1 at a time and label it so i dont get confused then move on to the next one, and so on.

BigBudE said:

harvest time id probally be best off harvesting 1 at a time and label it so i dont get confused then move on to the next one, and so on.

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They should all be labeled all the time...if you want any organization

jewgrow said:

They should all be labeled all the time...if you want any organization

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They are. wouldnt have it any other way.

I'm a hypocrite