Gendering, low light period

[kaliking]

Hey guys,

My plants are1 ft tall and im gendering them, they have been with the lights on 8/24 hr peroids for 3 days now.

The questrion is should i use a diff nutrient formula also, They are in high veg formula now, with little for blooming.

Will this effect it??

[pipeman]

8/24 hr periods? can you explain what that means?

[Guest Field_of_Light]

Kali Im assuming you arent about to turn em back once you have sexed em...if so they are going thru a major change in the structure as plants and you might lessen your end yield if you dont give them what they want....bloom nutrients

[kaliking]

Well i changed the light period down to 10 hrs of light and 14 off, I changed the nutrients 2 days ago and now there starting to showing gender.

I was planning on removing the males and keeping them on the 10hr peroid so i can get some pot to smoke while i put the females back into veg stage of 18hrs of light. Either that im gonna just clone the fems.

[pipeman]

mate there's no use flowering the males, they won't give you any bud. I would kill males but save leaf to make canna butter. Take clones of the females and flower them. If you're not confident in cloning maybe revert to veg, wait for clones to take, then flower them.

[kaliking]

Hey thanks pipeman sounds like a good idea.

 

Just waiting to tell which ones are fems and which are males.

Dont plants grow like 1 to 2 more ft when they are flowering.

My plants are almost 2 ft now. So when I gender the fems theyll be a little over 2ft hopefully, How long should i veg them again to get them to 4ft or a little more at harvest time.

Does switching from veg to flower, then back again mess with the end yeild/quality?

Also what the hell am i supposed to do with all the damn branches, they are getting long with lots of leaves, should the braches also be pruned too? I have been triming the fan leaves leaving 2 sets of leaves uptop and the plants seem to do good with this.

[kaliking]

Heres a pic of how tall they are, I got a little over 2 ft more to go (Well thats what i want).

[Guest Field_of_Light]

Is that 2 foot include your stretch? when you turn em to flower?

 

They just look a little skinny...maybe your lights area little high and if you lower em the plants will bush out and the stems may thicken up

 

Plus have you got a fan..that might help with the thickening of the stems...

 

Very healthy looking...

[pipeman]

mate I can't answer the specifics of your questions, a I've never sexed a plant and reverted to veg. The way I've done it is to take clones, flower the original plants then from that decide which clones to keep.

[WhiteSkunk]

kaliking....

 

when sexing your seeds i go from 24hr down to 6hr when approx

6 inches high depending on your srtain most males show there balls

within 3days then pull the malles and do what u want eg;flower in sep room 4 pollen.or dump em!

the females go back to 24hr 4for a week then into grow room and grow as per usual!

as far as does switching them mess with yeild usualy no but does depend on growing method/experiance.

most plants stretch approx 12 to 21 inches in first 18 days depending agian on strains.

a far as pruning tip all main colas add a fan ,and tie em down/out .

 

hope this helps dude! WS