How do you know your mother is not gonna be a DAD

[Pure]

I am a little confused as to how mothers are selected if you don't let it flower than how do you know it's gonna be a female? do you flower it and then force it back to veg or what ?

 

sorry foir my ignorence it is something that has been on my mind for a week or two now and I can't find a FAQ that explains it well

[Skunkxxx]

When I grow outside I just let them all grow until mother nature shows me the males and out they go.On my first indoor grow I too had to veg. out and then found out,but then I took the best looking one and cloned off of it. I just put the mother plant outside,( Got albout an oz and a half of Buds)with only the stems left on it with only small amounts of growth .She is vegging back out very nicely.I have grown alot outdoors But never started with a four foot plant,this time of year(two or three days before the first day of summer.)This should be interesting.I hope this helps.

Edited June 14, 2004 by Flopeye

[Guest]

Please dont show your tits again please

[Guest]

[Pure]

so you have to let it flower and then reveg it if your growing indoors is that what your saying ?

 

or do you take a clone and then reveg that as the mother ?

Edited June 14, 2004 by Pure

[Skunkxxx]

so you have to let it flower and then reveg it if your growing indoors is that what your saying ?

I only flowered long enough to sex the plants,With a good Maginfing glass! I feel this is a must in growing.Get the best one you can. I think I sexed the last plants after only a few days, in 18/6 coming from 24hrs a day.

Edited June 14, 2004 by Flopeye

[Pure]

thanx I'll catch it early

[Skunkxxx]

Now there are thousands of ways to grow.Do what feels best for your sitiution. Good Luck

[Luke Skywalker]

The plants show preflowers before they start to flower properly, at the sides of the nodes. You can determine what sex a plant is from seed under a vegetative cycle after about 1 to 3 months, 2 being the avg. You can also "force" the flowering response early, by dropping the photoperiod, as flopeye has said.

 

This has some drawbacks though, as it can take up to 2 weeks to get into the flowering phase, and another couple at least to return to full vegetative growth. This is also a stressful experience for the plants.

 

You can take cuttings from vegetative seed plants at a young age though, after about a month or so when they begin to grow a bit quicker and have some spare branches, and then root these under a 12:12 cycle. These cuttings will show sex quickly, as they're for all intents and purposes different plants, and you can track back from these to the original plants which is the male and females. Make sure you label all the clones, don't rely on memory for these things.

 

So yeah, there are a few different ways to detemine the sex of plants, before they're "ready" to show by themselves. Some will show earlier, and males tend to differentiate before females do. Males live for a shorter time, just long enough to pollinate the young female flowers, but the females have a longer cycle dedicated to seed production, or in our case thc production, so males will show their preflowers, and even flower fully under a vegetative photoperiod quite quickly.

 

Good luck with the sexing pure, I'm sure you'll pick out a good mum from the bunch, and have a lovely crop. Remember that ultimately you'll not know what the buds are like until you grow out the plant, so keep a couple of different lines of females for mothers if you're trying out a new one, as they can have a lot of difference even amongst sibling seeds.

[Pure]

Thanx allot guys I know what I'm gonna have to do now I think I will put a cutting into flower when I need to instead of putting the whole plant into shock from it all thanx once again guys