Dandaweedman

The plants we want to keep because they are special to us for whatever reason, are called mother plants or just moms.
We take clones from them every few weeks or so whether we need them or not to prune the plant and keep it a managable size.

Eventually the roots fill the pot or cup it is in and they start to droop and get sickly looking.
When the plant is weak for whatever reason it is easier for bugs and sickness to do serious damage.

Instead of potting the mom to a larger pot, I trim the roots.
I have limited room in my mom/clone chamber so I keep my moms in cups as long as possible.

I have done a pictoral thingy showing how I do it with my moms.

I have never had a plant react badly to this treatment and I have done it well over 50 times in total to about 9 moms.
The one in the picture has been in a cup for at least 80-90 days.

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