First grow, please help!

King_spleef

King_spleef

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I have been back and forth trying to determine my first plants sex. Every other day I'm certain it's either male or female.
Woke up today and was certain I found a pistol hair. I kept look looking, and now u am pretty sure I see the balls.
Can someone please confirm for me. Any help would be appreciated!
The first pic is of what I thought was the hairs. The rest are the little buds or balls. 20190511_172820.jpg 20190511_172545.jpg 20190511_172904.jpg
 
King_spleef said:
I have been back and forth trying to determine my first plants sex. Every other day I'm certain it's either male or female.
Woke up today and was certain I found a pistol hair. I kept look looking, and now u am pretty sure I see the balls.
Can someone please confirm for me. Any help would be appreciated!
The first pic is of what I thought was the hairs. The rest are the little buds or balls. View attachment 4331857 View attachment 4331858 View attachment 4331859
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Looks like a boy to me!
 
This is gonna be hard, having to destroy my first born. This plant is a beast
 

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King_spleef said:
This is gonna be hard, having to destroy my first born. This plant is a beast
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Sometimes it’s good to force flower to show sex then reveg if it’s a female or take a cutting put it in flower to sex. it may seem like a lot but it’ll pay off !!!!
I have six seedlings that I’m thinking about doing this too hope this helped !!!
 
Dankrolledfreshed said:
Sometimes it’s good to force flower to show sex then reveg if it’s a female or take a cutting put it in flower to sex. it may seem like a lot but it’ll pay off !!!!
I have six seedlings that I’m thinking about doing this too hope this helped !!!
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So I'm guessing you would do this early in the veg stage? I'll have to look into it.
 
Dankrolledfreshed said:
Yes personally because it’s a waste of lighting, nutes and time imo
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IME, The only time you should want to start at 12/12 is to keep the plant small and have it flower in as little time as possible.

The time it takes for a seedling to show maturity during veg (18/6) is alot faster than starting at 12/12 and having to reveg again, not to mention you will be able to pull clones immediately once your 18/6 plant shows maturity, as it will be 2-3 times the size of the seedling started at 12/12.
 
SPLFreak808 said:
IME, The only time you should want to start at 12/12 is to keep the plant small and have it flower in as little time as possible.

The time it takes for a seedling to show maturity during veg (18/6) is alot faster than starting at 12/12 and having to reveg again, not to mention you will be able to pull clones immediately once your 18/6 plant shows maturity, as it will be 2-3 times the size of the seedling started at 12/12.
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I do 6 weeks veg under 24/0 pretty much all the time, then flip. But I always know the sex before I start.
 
SPLFreak808 said:
IME, The only time you should want to start at 12/12 is to keep the plant small and have it flower in as little time as possible.

The time it takes for a seedling to show maturity during veg (18/6) is alot faster than starting at 12/12 and having to reveg again, not to mention you will be able to pull clones immediately once your 18/6 plant shows maturity, as it will be 2-3 times the size of the seedling started at 12/12.
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Hi!!! Cannabis plants can be considered a seedling until 2-3 weeks. In my current situation I’m looking for mother plants so I will force them to show sex and then reveg
So I’ll know what to keep in my garden !!!!

who mention anything about starting at 12/12 ?
 
Dankrolledfreshed said:
Hi!!! Cannabis plants can be considered a seedling until 2-3 weeks. In my current situation I’m looking for mother plants so I will force them to show sex and then reveg
So I’ll know what to keep in my garden !!!!

who mention anything about starting at 12/12 ?
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You breed?
 
Dankrolledfreshed said:
Hi!!! Cannabis plants can be considered a seedling until 2-3 weeks. In my current situation I’m looking for mother plants so I will force them to show sex and then reveg
So I’ll know what to keep in my garden !!!!

who mention anything about starting at 12/12 ?
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Sometimes it’s good to force flower to show sex then reveg if it’s a female or take a cutting put it in flower to sex. it may seem like a lot but it’ll pay off !!!!
Forcing flower, is flipping the light cycle.

because it’s a waste of lighting, nutes and time imo
Disagree,
3 weeks of 18/6 veg = 378 hrs/bigger plant

2 weeks of 12/12 to mature and 2 weeks of 18/6 for reveg = 420 hrs/smaller plant

I might have misunderstood you, i got the impression that the OP thinks you can do this without any negative effects, only trying to help.

The only time I've felt the need to start at 12/12 was either pheno hunting to find a keeper followed by reveg or prepping for a SOG grow, any other reason actually waste even more electricity & nutes as the time it takes to mature is actually faster than reveg.
 
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SPLFreak808 said:
IME, The only time you should want to start at 12/12 is to keep the plant small and have it flower in as little time as possible.

The time it takes for a seedling to show maturity during veg (18/6) is alot faster than starting at 12/12 and having to reveg again, not to mention you will be able to pull clones immediately once your 18/6 plant shows maturity, as it will be 2-3 times the size of the seedling started at 12/12.
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I have heard about putting clones into flower just to sex the plant. I have been studying about revegging a plant as well. Also, isn't revegging a flowering plant called monster cropping or something of the sort?
Either way, I did waste quite a bit of nutes on that male but I'm not butt hurt about it. All these plants were bag seed I had friends save up. Using them to work out the kinks of my bubbleponics setup I rigged together. Long term, I plan on having about 4 different lights and rooms (seedling, veg, 1 or 2 flower, clone) and maybe one day even breed. Aiming to have a new crop every month. I don't know why I didn't start growing 10 years ago. Only reason I started now was because someone gave me a new aerogarden. My landlord used to grow here in my house when he lived here. There's a secret room with electric and ventilation that I've just been using as storage space. He'd probably let me pay my rent in weed lol.
But yep, never even grew a plant in soil, straight to hydro. Once I knock this out I'm definitely getting some feminized seeds and learning to clone.
One thing I was wondering. How long can a plant veg for indoors? Forever?
(sorry about the blurples, trying to keep it low heat and cost efficient). Currently running a 450w and 600w viparspectras, 460 actual watt's drawn from the wall.
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