Sexing plants by taking cuttings.

Mo9000

Mo9000

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Hi guys I am currently growing some bag seed, and I am looking into ways of sexing my plants as early as possible. I have limited space and light in my small cupboard grow which is why I need to be able to sex my plants early on, as I can only have a few plants growing at a time and I cant afford to be growing males up until flower, I have heard that with this method (taking cuttings and putting them straight into flower) you don't even need to root the clones, it this true? this is the main question which I am looking for answer to. Any help from anyone who has experience or knowledge in this process is greatly appreciated.
 
too larry

too larry

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Another way of sexing plants without taking clones. Once they are sexually mature, 4-5 weeks in most cases, place a small candy sized brown paper bag over a limb tip on each plant. Mark tip so you can do the same spot everyday. Place bag at a time to make the length of day 12 hours. Repeat this everyday for two weeks and you will have flowers on the limb tips that were covered.
 
Mo9000

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too larry said:
Another way of sexing plants without taking clones. Once they are sexually mature, 4-5 weeks in most cases, place a small candy sized brown paper bag over a limb tip on each plant. Mark tip so you can do the same spot everyday. Place bag at a time to make the length of day 12 hours. Repeat this everyday for two weeks and you will have flowers on the limb tips that were covered.
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Thats really cool, the ingenuity of marijuana growers never ceases to amaze me, quite similar to a technique I learnt of how to root a tree branch while still on the tree, where you strip the bark off the branch and then wrap up the stripped area with a black bag and it roots on the tree. Just thought I share that, but yeah thanks dude, I'm learning so much stuff every day on this site. :)
 
Kerovan

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This is no help with your current grow, but when you are limited on space the best thing you can do is buy quality feminized seeds from someplace like Nirvana Seeds or The Attitude Seed Bank. Feminized seeds are a godsend to people with limited space and/or limited time.By the time you sex your cuttings your main plants will be so large they won't fit anymore. Remember your plants will triple or quadruple in size when you switch them to 12/12. So you may want to just flip all of your plants now to 12/12 and then weed them out as they show sex.
 
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too larry said:
Another way of sexing plants without taking clones. Once they are sexually mature, 4-5 weeks in most cases, place a small candy sized brown paper bag over a limb tip on each plant. Mark tip so you can do the same spot everyday. Place bag at a time to make the length of day 12 hours. Repeat this everyday for two weeks and you will have flowers on the limb tips that were covered.
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a great idea if you wish to Rodelize your plant later

as often the forthcoming pollen to to late to be of any use to the current flowers
 
Mo9000

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Kerovan said:
This is no help with your current grow, but when you are limited on space the best thing you can do is buy quality feminized seeds from someplace like Nirvana Seeds or The Attitude Seed Bank. Feminized seeds are a godsend to people with limited space and/or limited time.By the time you sex your cuttings your main plants will be so large they won't fit anymore. Remember your plants will triple or quadruple in size when you switch them to 12/12. So you may want to just flip all of your plants now to 12/12 and then weed them out as they show sex.
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Yeah man, really wish I had access to seed banks, there aren't any legit ones in my country though, bought from a local seed bank in my country a few years back, who claimed their seeds were from dinafem, barneys farm, greenhouseseed co, seedsman, Dutch passion and more, turned out to be absolute bs, the stuff I grew looked like bush weed genetics, which is what the majority of the weed is like here in africa.
 
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Mo9000 said:
Yeah man, really wish I had access to seed banks, there aren't any legit ones in my country though, bought from a local seed bank in my country a few years back, who claimed their seeds were from dinafem, barneys farm, greenhouseseed co, seedsman, Dutch passion and more, turned out to be absolute bs, the stuff I grew looked like bush weed genetics, which is what the majority of the weed is like here in africa.
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I don't know how importing is in your country, but there aren't any in my country either, the USA. At least there weren't before. There might be some now. But that is why I have always bought from Nirvana in the Netherlands or The Attitude Seed Bank in the UK. No problems with either one. But of course your country may be different.
 
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Great Lakes Genetics was painless to deal with.

Kerovan said:
I don't know how importing is in your country, but there aren't any in my country either, the USA. At least there weren't before. There might be some now. But that is why I have always bought from Nirvana in the Netherlands or The Attitude Seed Bank in the UK. No problems with either one. But of course your country may be different.
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glani said:
I thought preflowers show around 4 to 5 weeks regardless of lighting? If so, absolutely nothing is needed except to look at the nodes up close. By the time any cuttings can show you, the plant they came from is already at least 4 to 5 weeks old

http://www.growweedeasy.com/preflowers
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Yeah, this is quite common, but its not a definite for every plant, some strains may show only very late preflowers or none at all, I think this way is more reliable. I am topping my plants when they are about 6 nodes tall regardless, so I there's no reason for me not to do it.
 
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Kerovan said:
I don't know how importing is in your country, but there aren't any in my country either, the USA. At least there weren't before. There might be some now. But that is why I have always bought from Nirvana in the Netherlands or The Attitude Seed Bank in the UK. No problems with either one. But of course your country may be different.
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Yeah importing seeds is not feasible for me, they'll never make it through customs, and my postal service is utter trash anyway, your lucky if you get anything through the post around here, lol. Im assuming thats the only way to receive an imported package. And to be honest with shiping costs, and all that other stuff, I would rather just grow bag seed, and learn how to sex my plants early.
 
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Mo9000 said:
Yeah importing seeds is not feasible for me, they'll never make it through customs, and my postal service is utter trash anyway, your lucky if you get anything through the post around here, lol. Im assuming thats the only way to receive an imported package. And to be honest with shiping costs, and all that other stuff, I would rather just grow bag seed, and learn how to sex my plants early.
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I just ordered seeds from abroad for the first time. Im in a southern state, here in the US. I wanted Black Dog from Humboldt Seeds, but they dont ship locally. Spent a week reading reviews of seedbanks before I finally decided on Linda Seeds. I opted for stealth and to keep them in original breeder's pack. I was scared and not hopeful. 3 weeks later i got a package. Original seeder packaging. Didnt have the extra seeds they were supposed to throw in but so far, this is the only one i trust because it's the only one ive used. Seeds seem good, two sprouted and i think i just lost the third to bein too wet. Little roothorn got mushy and fell away from the seed.
 
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