Bruceleaf
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Lol 
Love it
Love it
I need advice, plants 5 weeks old looking terrible!
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Carry on with what you're doing, and in a couple of weeks begin the FloraNova transition to flower nutes.
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Well I transitioned to the bloom flora nova nutes a few weeks ago so I’ll just carry on with that since there’s nothing else to transition into and today I brought them some lady bugs
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Are these Lille oval shaped pods normal on a female? I’ve got buds as u can see too.
I'm going to call that one a male and recommend you toss it in the bin so as not to pollinate your female plants. I don't even see anything I would consider pistils on it.
At best it's a hermaphrodite and should be tossed for the same reason.
At best it's a hermaphrodite and should be tossed for the same reason.
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Oh my God I confirmed a couple of weeks ago that it looks like my plants were flowering and had they had a little buds and they were growing and I thought someone on the form said congratulations it’s a female well now I have three of these that are pretty big and they all had these little oval shaped pistols on them so I guess the males I’m just gonna show you one more time before I cut 3 of my plants them down for confirmation
First closeup is too blurry and needs to be shot from the side like the second closeup, which is definitely male. Pistils aren't oval shaped, they're long thin white strands.
Are they listed as female or regs? Regs should be sexed before flowering when possible, by getting very close shots of the nodes somewhere after day 40 above ground. That's when most plants will tell you what sex they are.
[edit: I asked earlier and you mentioned they were not fems.]
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[edit: I asked earlier and you mentioned they were not fems.]
This one is a girl, unless it's also showing pollen sacs and then it's a hermie.
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Right so I bought 12 seeds in a pack and they were photo and they were not feminized so they did say that I’d probably get a few males in there, one seed did not sprout and I have been watching these guys like a hawk every day and I’ve never seen any of those little sack things without a little white pistol on it , or so I thought but this is my first grow so obviously I made a mistake ! anyway I just cut down three of my plants that had the seeds . Early on I gave 4 of my seedlings to my friend. So now I have four plants left dear God please let them all be girls I don’t see any sides of seeds yet or flowers on them so I’m keeping my fingers crossed
Anyone who told you that you'd probably just get a few males in there was lying, as every seed might be male in terms of statistics. You have a 50/50 chance with each seed, not that every 12 pack will be half male/half female.
Make sure your friend is also hawk-like in checking the sex! You're both hoping for pistils like the ones you posted earlier that I linked to above.
Make sure your friend is also hawk-like in checking the sex! You're both hoping for pistils like the ones you posted earlier that I linked to above.
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So u asked where I got them a medical dispensary in Napa Valley the name of the company who makes them is rebel grown and they have a website rebelgrown.com
Thanks! I hope they weren't too expensive since you have to dump so many males. For example, Royal Queen seeds sells their White Widow regs 10 for €39 and the fem version 10 for €55. That's only €1.60 more per seed.
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Hello again shed so I have 4 ladies now growing nicely they’re all in flowering stage is no signs of any pesky roosters in the henhouse LOL!
So now my question is I don’t know how to lollipop or whatever you call the way to remove leaves that aren’t helping to plant a couple of mine look pretty strong but there’s so many leaves and stems inside that I know the sun can’t get to and I just don’t understand which ones are safe to takeoff and which ones are not perhaps now that they’re in flowering mode it’s not safe to do so can you tell me what I should do I’m going to post pictures of all four plants the first when I’m going to show you was the first to go into flower a couple weeks ago the rest are just beginning to flowering stage. do they look too crowded?
Congrats on the big beautiful female plants! I'm not sure I would take off a thing unless your live in a high RH environment with very little breeze.
Some recommend that first grows be left alone so you can get a feel for how plants grow and how big the buds get at harvest. Don't worry about where the sun is hitting as it moves 180º across the sky and almost every leaf is getting some sun at some point. The only fans you would be taking would be the ones that crowd the densest middle of the plant if they are actually laying on top of each other.
Many folks don't take off any branches, but if that's something you were interested in trying you could reach into the middle and take off the smallest ones whose tops are nowhere near the outer edge of the canopy. They still produce flowers but will be taking resources that the plant can put to better use on the larger branches. That's what I do.
Some recommend that first grows be left alone so you can get a feel for how plants grow and how big the buds get at harvest. Don't worry about where the sun is hitting as it moves 180º across the sky and almost every leaf is getting some sun at some point. The only fans you would be taking would be the ones that crowd the densest middle of the plant if they are actually laying on top of each other.
Many folks don't take off any branches, but if that's something you were interested in trying you could reach into the middle and take off the smallest ones whose tops are nowhere near the outer edge of the canopy. They still produce flowers but will be taking resources that the plant can put to better use on the larger branches. That's what I do.
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Thank you for confirming that! I’ve been scouring the Internet and Read a post that says you truly should not remove any leaves once you start flowering this is a technique for vegetative state only and anytime you remove the leaves it gives a boost to its veg cycle even if it started flowering unless it’s right before you harvest or pre-trim.
I think I’m just gonna let them grow and not worry about taking anything off! I’m still learning! Do I keep giving nudes flora nova bloom every time I water? Or do I need to worry about cutting the nutes back yet?
I think I’m just gonna let them grow and not worry about taking anything off! I’m still learning! Do I keep giving nudes flora nova bloom every time I water? Or do I need to worry about cutting the nutes back yet?
Nute strength only goes up in flower. Follow the manufacturer's instructions until where it says "flush" or 0 at the end. Feed until harvest.
Sueet
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I'm super curious about this, and I would like to learn how to defol at least a little, to make harvesting a less onerous task. How does it work if you just removed a large amount of leaves, do you still up the feed, or do you back off a bit til the plant recovers ?
Sometimes it seems like there are as many answers on how to thin a plant as there are growers!
I have a few words of advice I give to folks starting out, and the first is that if you strip a large number of fan leaves all at once, the plant will replace them. This means that stripping a plant of fans in flower will cause the plant to put resources into growing new fans rather than growing flower. Plants know how many fans they need to live.
You can use this to good effect during veg though, as stripping the lower leaves of a plant will force new growth to the top, which is where the largest flowers will grow.
Another piece of advice is to keep looking down on your plant as you take fan leaves, to make sure you don't take so many as to make it so you can see the pot/floor/ground. Photons should always be hitting a leaf within the circle of the plant rather than passing though it untouched.
During pre-flower thinning (moving growth to the top) I will take both leaves and branches that appear too weak or short to make it to the top in flower, like a standard lollipop:
However, when I thin after stretch, I take smaller branches and flowers but not the adjoining fan leaves, like this:
So it's often hard to tell I've done anything when looking at the plant:
In terms of feeding, I don't change anything after thinning/stripping regarding nutrient strength. What will often happen after lollipopping in veg is that the plant won't need water as often until it replaces the fans with new growth.
If the goal is to cut down the time you spend trimming, be a bit more ruthless during the post stretch thinning, taking off all the lower flowers on a branch that won't connect to the main cola, as I did in the pic with the arrows above. I hate trimming small buds and am #nolarf!