Master Kush Bonsai Mother

Dudemann I’ve been working with this ETHOS Master Kush for a little over a year now and figured it was cool enough to upload for fun. She popped around 5/1/25 and slowly turned into a long-term bonsai mother project instead of a normal plant. The goal was never really maximum yield, it was more about building an old-tree look while keeping her healthy enough to stay around as a permanent mother. I let her grow out first to build some trunk thickness, then air-layered the main trunk and replanted that rooted section into her current pot. That gave her a much older, heavier base than she would’ve had if I started training her as a tiny seedling. Since then she’s been shaped with a mix of topping, heavy structural pruning, selective defoliation, and canopy rebuilding. I’ve done some big cuts on her over time, then let the new growth fill back in so she could develop that mature bonsai mother look instead of just looking hacked back. She ended up with a thick twin-trunk / multi-leader structure, exposed root flare, old pruning scars, and a dense regenerated canopy. She’s still in a normal fabric pot for now because this is more of a working mother than a finished display bonsai. I’ve been trying to keep the root flare and surface structure visible, so I recently cleaned up the topdress with finer bark mulch to make the base look more intentional. She did get a little light stressed recently because I accidentally had both lights blasting, but overall she’s been healthy and keeps pushing new growth. This plant is basically just a fun side project that turned into one of my favorite mothers. It’s part cannabis mother plant, part bonsai experiment, and part “let’s see how old and tree-like I can make this thing look.”