The BS Journal - Bag Seed - LED - Soil - Frankenpot - 1st Run In A Long Time

When you grow regular seeds you hafta expect at least 50% males and they are always the first to drop their underwear and give you a smile. But at least your freebie lights have arrived.

Just to prepare yourself, check the stipules (the green hairs at the nodes) and see if others also have them crossed. If so, expect them to be male as well. If they look more like an 11 or pi symbol, expect them to be female.
 
greengostarr said:
When you grow regular seeds you hafta expect at least 50% males and they are always the first to drop their underwear and give you a smile. But at least your freebie lights have arrived.
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I did expect to lose half, but didn't know they would be first.

greengostarr said:
Just to prepare yourself, check the stipules (the green hairs at the nodes) and see if others also have them crossed. If so, expect them to be male as well. If they look more like an 11 or pi symbol, expect them to be female.
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That, I did not know. Thank you, I will be looking closely there.
 
BoomShakalaka said:
I did expect to lose half, but didn't know they would be first.



That, I did not know. Thank you, I will be looking closely there.
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It's not 100% but it's the method I always used when I grew bag seed and always ripped up those with crossed stipules once they'd grown about 3 or four nodes and never had adult males - hermies yes, males no.
 
I was taught the same thing about the stipules many many years ago, but was proven wrong by a couple people on this site ( learn something new everyday) but i would advise waiting to see balls, they won't pollinate until they open up, so instead of cutting down a potential female that you put time into just keep a close eye and cut down when you see balls.
 
That's why I said it's not 100%, Leo and I certainly wouldn't suggest ripping up those with crossed stipules before the balls drop. I always planted way more seeds than I wanted so it was no loss for me growing outdoors to rip 'em out young. I guess I should have added that I was only suggesting he keeps an eye on those with crossed stipules.
 
greengostarr said:
That's why I said it's not 100%, Leo and I certainly wouldn't suggest ripping up those with crossed stipules before the balls drop. I always planted way more seeds than I wanted so it was no loss for me growing outdoors to rip 'em out young. I guess I should have added that I was only suggesting he keeps an eye on those with crossed stipules.
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Definitely not knocking it brother, as long as it works for you that's all that matters. I'm just thinking about all the time we put into these plants before we even know if they are female.
 
so, this is what is left of S3.......
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now for more bad news... S2...
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This the clincher,,, looks like he is standing there getting ready to take a piss in my tent
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So sad, now there are 7. (but the tent has more room, and now the rest are filling and stretching.
Just in case, I taped the tiny red/green led's on the power strip. just in case it was too much light to mess with dark cycle. Hope that is not the case.... Hopefully some girls decide they are not too shy anymore and show me something. Seen too much male junk now, need to see some pretty bits.
 
so far, all the males have been in soil. another one bites it. S1.

S4 and S5 (the tri leaf runt) are both not showing any signs. but their growth is different from S1-S3.

As for the buckets, 1 seems suspect, will keep a close eye on it. So, hopefully end with 5 girls, maybe 6.

S1
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couldn't get a good pic on the one suspect bucket, it may just be a new node, getting paranoid now, lol
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I was originally planning on 4 plants in a perpetual,, 1 every two weeks, then said screw it and just dropped a bunch of seeds. 9 sprouted, so law of avg says 4 or 5, I'd be happy with 2, 1 for each light,,lol and I know I could still get enough to get to the next round,

the clones on the other hand. Some good advice?

Dont do like I did. If you find an old jar of rooting powder (like 8 yrs or so), throw that crap away, and goto home depot and spend the 5 bucks or whatever. Me, nope, me is like,,, oh, look I have powder, no need to run to home depot..lmao.

so far, every boy I have killed,, when I killed their clones, none have had any sign of roots. a couple were calloused, so I suppose might pop a root soon... The ones left behind in the tray... not looking so good.

so, when I get the final 4,5 or 6 and they show some hairs, I'll take some new clones, just in case. I stopped by home depot and picked up some rooting powder today, lmao.
 
greengostarr said:
Just to prepare yourself, check the stipules (the green hairs at the nodes) and see if others also have them crossed. If so, expect them to be male as well. If they look more like an 11 or pi symbol, expect them to be female.
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I read others saying it the other way around... that crossed stipules are more likely female & straight, leafier stipules are likely male. I gave up staring at the stipules because they began looking all the same!
 
BoomShakalaka said:
lights on,

so, question, I know someones journal mentioned a thread about things that influence sex.

Are there things done at germination, seedling, veg, and transition stages that would influence gender?
Things that would cause a greater than normal number of males?
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That's an interesting thought~ I've read where you can make feminized seeds using colloidal silver... is that what you're referring to?
 
vespertine said:
I read others saying it the other way around... that crossed stipules are more likely female & straight, leafier stipules are likely male. I gave up staring at the stipules because they began looking all the same!
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most of the plants that got cut and the ones left, have both crossed and straight,, on the same plant.



vespertine said:
That's an interesting thought~ I've read where you can make feminized seeds using colloidal silver... is that what you're referring to?
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no, just that maybe, something I did wrong caused the plants to go male....? seems like almost every plant in there now is starting to look like the boys.

got two that are starting to really look suspect, and the rest,, maybe it's paranoia..
 
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