All males

I am a first time grower, got some seeds from a friend. I started 10 plants, under a blue spectrum, once they hit veg, I added a MH 400W Conversion bulb, 3 months later I started to flower, changed out MH with HPS.
Six days into flowering, I find out my plants are all male. Meanwhile, my friend started two plants and both are females. What happened? Did I turn my plants male? Is it something to do with my lighting?

chiselsr said:

I am a first time grower, got some seeds from a friend. I started 10 plants, under a blue spectrum, once they hit veg, I added a MH 400W Conversion bulb, 3 months later I started to flower, changed out MH with HPS.
Six days into flowering, I find out my plants are all male. Meanwhile, my friend started two plants and both are females. What happened? Did I turn my plants male? Is it something to do with my lighting?

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there is NO way you had sexing signings at 6 days. maybe you could find a hair or a pollen sack on one of the plants but not all 10 and not in 6 days. stick it out. i hope you have not killed them yet. the odds of 10 males in a row are less than 1%

Can one use a HPS for veg and flowering? Should i keep my blue spectrum on while flowering?

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yes. you can use hps for both veg and flower, but you get smaller internodes (branches closer together) veggin' with a halide....

i doubt they were ALL male, but without pics i cant rightfully judge, and at 6 days who knows...mine show pistils in about 5 days under my 400w HPS. yours prolly where just the begining of calyx's (sp?)....

jm.02

mykul916 said:

yes. you can use hps for both veg and flower, but you get smaller internodes (branches closer together) veggin' with a halide....

i doubt they were ALL male, but without pics i cant rightfully judge, and at 6 days who knows...mine show pistils in about 5 days under my 400w HPS. yours prolly where just the begining of calyx's (sp?)....

jm.02

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I first started with 4 foot blue spectrum, and then I got 400W HPS. one week whith the HPS and three males surfaced. My bro talked me in to going MH conv so i did, two more males.so the remaning five veged for a mounth with no issues. I figured that the rest were females.

well one female but the others are males . should i send her back into veg before cloning?

your odds of all males is about 1 in 800 out of 10 plants so its not impossible

lol sucks i got 4 random seeds.. all female... not even budding yet lmao.

OREGONGREENERTHANUTHINK u talk shit ?????

i had 8white widow plants in veg under a 250w cfl for 1month and even before i put them under my hps on 12/12 they started to show SO LOL @ YOUR SHIT KNOLEGE ...also he vegged em for 3fukin months and ...u can get AUTOFLOWERING STRAINS TOO !!!!!
ive smoke lowryder done under24 hour light in a room,with vegging plants and it was lush lol no diffrent from changing the lighting as its AUTOFLOWER lol your low amount of post show ur vast knolege...