This is my weak point as well. I have never had a place to keep a mom until now.
Isn't this the plot for the movie Psycho ? LOL
So, for a mom, I am just starting to..... for lack of better words, grow Cannabis properly and actually have SOME idea of WTF I'm doing, so I'll be Honest here:
My growing started not that long ago, and last season was my third season, and as my first season using actual seedlings. My first year growing was all clones, and my second year growing was all clones again except for like a single seedling that I had finally gotten to sprout and not die because of incompetence on my part, so this passed season I started lots of seedlings. I did still have clones (Soon to be Father in Law gave me a clone of Cactido, and a clone of Bubblegum) and I said he could take clones off my Strawberry Diesel Seedling, my Hawaiian Sunshine Seedling, and I let him pull one off my Skywalker for his buddy that he had been buying clones from for years.
when I finally had my Blue Cheese Seedlings sprouted, out of 4 plants, two were male and had to go to the fire pit since it's always ladies night in the garden, but out of those two females, I got my "Big Momma Cheese" and "Sister Seedling" (Little names I gave them; Big Momma Cheese was the first one to get big enough to pull some clones from, and she ended up being the super Skunky sour Cheese and Cat Piss smelling pheno, and the sister is the floral and sweet but spicy tasting one) and I used Momma Cheese as the Mother for clones.
I did let him take a Blue Cheese clone, but then he wanted to give away a bunch of the clones to a friend of his, including the Blue Cheese one, and I was like "Oh fucking no..... I'll put it outside with the rest" so I stuck it outside and let it ride LOL.
The Mom and the "Sister" both were VERY nice plants; Looked like a Christmas Tree, smelled wonderful, and produced VERY well. I'd be out in the garden dragging gallons of water and nutes around and talking to them like "Hey pretty girl
" LOL.
The Indoor tents were going to be shut down though so I couldn't "keep her as a Mom" but I've gotten enough seeds from the buds to start them up again at least
So I treated her well until October, and then it was Bates Motel time basically.