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Midnight_Toker420 · 02-14-2007, 05:58 AM

Ok just a quick ????????

If a plant shows a female pre-flower why sex it under 12/12????????
will the pre-flower show diffrent than the sex of the plant????????

as for me sex in the dark is the best ( just had to get that off my mind LoL)

Spills · 02-15-2007, 06:09 AM

If it has female preflowers there's no need to sex it under 12/12. Only put it on 12/12 when its ready to flower.

Stony · 02-15-2007, 07:33 PM

So if you wanted you could use that plant for a mother and know they'll all be female?

smokey · 02-15-2007, 08:28 PM

yea once u have a female u can keep it on veg cycle and just take clones from her
alot of ppl do this, especially if u get a strain with good genetics

peace

Midnight_Toker420 · 02-17-2007, 06:17 AM

thats what i thought but we always here sex it under 12/12/

Thanks

latewood · 03-05-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Stony

So if you wanted you could use that plant for a mother and know they'll all be female?

Maybe. the presence of fem' preflowers doesn't necessarily mean that you have a good MOM. Without having changed the photoperiod it canoot be determined 100%. Hopefully, You are right. If you see all the calyx' with pistil's, It is a good bet that you are OK.

smokey · 03-05-2007, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Midnight Toker

thats what i thought but we always here sex it under 12/12/

Thanks

yea u sex it under 12/12
but if u want to keep a mother for clones it need to be kept on veg after u determine its female

peace

cjumpc · 04-13-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by smokey

yea once u have a female u can keep it on veg cycle and just take clones from her
alot of ppl do this, especially if u get a strain with good genetics

peace

I had set out to do just that. Start with a few varieties. Find what I like. Keep mabe 2-3 mothers of dif strains...
But, as a medical gardener I am limited to the number of plants that I can have at a time. Six plants may be over a foot high/wide, and 18 must be bbelow that. Mothers are about 12inches, and that would meant fewer in flower.

So. my plan B is to make sure I have thriving rooted clones of my strain de jour and flower the big plant. Hmm that brings me to a couple of other topics.

latewood · 04-13-2007, 10:48 AM

Here is a Plan B.

Top each plant, and Root it. Perhaps, take a couple extra clones, (mark them all real good). Then flower the bigger plants.
You can "cull" weed out the males, and the clones of the males.

Keep the females in perpetual veg until you need to flower them.

If you are in soil...leave clones in small 4" pots or up to 1 gallon pots. Light nutes. They will be more manageable this way.

IN hydro, just get or make a small ebb and flow ( it can be a hand fed unit if you are not good with pumps), and use smaller netpots 2-3"
use light nutes and you can keep clones in perpetual hydro veg under fluoros for a couple months, or even longer.

Just some thoughts for you all.
Peace

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