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TheEpicFlowers

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I have a degree in plant science... the majority of my work in the last few years has been an emphasis on IPM programs in greenhouse production facilities. I have been in a few of the major player L.P. greenhouses in Ontario. I had a few job opportunities but I decided to change gears completely. The last greenhouse I was in charge of was 17 acres under glass. Slab growing, water to waste. I love growing but I hate that particular style. It's bullshit wasteful and chemical feeding regimen is Mickey mouse. Any asshole with a ph meter and a few bottles thinks they know horticulture.
 

Ginger Viking

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I'll add to the male female ratio idea with a story. When I was in college my two room mates and I started about 75 plants in solo cups with no drainage holes on a coffee table in front of a big window. We would open the curtains on the window whenever we woke up in the morning and shut it after it got dark. Low light intensity, irregular light intervals, and low temps(far from ideal conditions). All plants showed their sex early(less than a month) and less than 10% were males. We started these plants to give to our friends that would come burn with us hoping they would plant and share the love if they produced anything. No one ever said they did...
A decade later and guess what...I pop beans and hope for a 50/50 ratio. Is there something there? Maybe or maybe not. My opinion on this is that in order to affect the male to female ratio you have to stress them much more than necessary, which slows growth, etc. In turn you would be as well off to pop twice as many seeds an cull males after sexing and have much bigger healthier plants in the same amount of time.
 

Lurpin

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Wouldn't you just naturally have more females then males? I mean female xx can only give x and male is xy which means it's up to dad to make more males and he also has an x to give 50% of the time.
 

Bakersfield

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Yep, wood stove or compost here.
Stems make great kindling.
The 3 wedding Cake's are the same. 2 were "tall" and hollow and 1 was "short" and hollow. I cut the tops off of them and are sitting in water, way away from the rest.
I have a Blueberry I'm gonna hit with these S1's AKA " ??? Cake".
If this turns out, it will be a miracle. lol
Name her "Blue Hor" or "Blue Virgin". lol
This sucks having so many males.
Has anyone actually found out what happened?
Hope you don't end up with Blue Balls! Hahaha lol! :P
 

jayblaze710

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I am going with science on this -
If it was not predetermined there'd be no way to feminize a seed. This may have already been mentioned so my apologies if so. I also tend to get a high fem/male ratio.
It’s very rare, but some species do have skewed male/female ratios. The mechanism underlying it is pretty complex. But there’s some evidence that cannabis, at least from some regions, may actually have higher female to male ratios.
 

thenotsoesoteric

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I guess I got lucky man. I popped 3 and got 2 females. One had a nice mix of cream and chem flavors and the other was straight cream flavor.
Spondylo pheno looks absolutely amazing!!! That was 1 female out of 6 beans. Keep trying man I'm sure you'll find something you like.

On an other note, I have 2 Sundance Kids that are coming along quite nice.

pheno #1 Looks like she'll be ready around 70 days
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pheno #2 Looks likes shes going to be doing 80+ days
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I knew I was playing pheno russian roulette by just popping 2 beans, lol. I'll get to the rest of the pack towards the end of the year, but first I gotta run some test beans to see if my tangerine power male is good stock.
 

suthrngrwr

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It’s very rare, but some species do have skewed male/female ratios. The mechanism underlying it is pretty complex. But there’s some evidence that cannabis, at least from some regions, may actually have higher female to male ratios.
Of course there is evidence. Men whose ancestors lived in Northern Europe have a higher chance of carrying a gene that increase male birth frequency by 50%.
 

suthrngrwr

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I knew I was playing pheno russian roulette by just popping 2 beans, lol. I'll get to the rest of the pack towards the end of the year, but first I gotta run some test beans to see if my tangerine power male is good stock.
Statistically speaking, 3 seeds is the minimum number of regular sex seeds one should germinate to have the highest success rate (finding one or more female plants). 2 seeds would give a 25% chance for failure (no female plants), where 3 seeds reduces the chance to just 12.5%. As you can see, germinating beyond 4 seeds has limited utility, due to diminishing improvements in the success rate.
 

suthrngrwr

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Jelly pie. Day 22. She's a squat plant. Super wide with great node spacing. I believe she is gonna stack nicely. Stem rub is strange on this one, get a fruity start with rotten underlying stank. Only have 1 female plant out of three.. lots of true males up here in Canada....
I was lucky to find 2 unique female phenotypes of the 5 Jelly Pie seeds I germinated. Ditto on the pheno you currently have -- it is artificially sweet at first with some real funk that really accents the sweetness. This other plant has a spicier rub to it with almost all the sweetness as her sister. Unmistakable grape flavor all the way.
 

suthrngrwr

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I always get 90% females. It's not predetermined in the seed. You can easily coax a higher fem /male ratio.
Let me let you in on a little secret:

For about the first week of a cannabis seedling's life, the seed is neither male or female (could be argued that it is both simultaneously until observed to be otherwise). This would hold true for several more weeks until the pre-flowers begin to show. However, you could pony up for a sex test and learn the seedling's sex after that first week!
 

Cold$moke

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The 3 wedding Cake's are the same. 2 were "tall" and hollow and 1 was "short" and hollow. I cut the tops off of them and are sitting in water, way away from the rest.
I have a Blueberry I'm gonna hit with these S1's AKA " ??? Cake".
If this turns out, it will be a miracle. lol
Name her "Blue Hor" or "Blue Virgin". lol
This sucks having so many males.
Has anyone actually found out what happened?
Can we even call it cake?
 
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