Switching from flower to veg after sexing?

Is this possible? I would think so, eh?

See, right now I have one plant doing pretty well in pretty good conditions. Proper PH water, x2 23 watt cool white spiral floro's / x2 42 watt red light spectrum spiral floro's, and M.Grow (No nute burn or anything, seems fine). A fan is also on everything whenever the lights are on. (Would be 24/7, but it's a stealth grow.)

Plant looks pretty healthy and is forming nice (Very tight + healthy looking.). Thing is I'm not sure if it is male or female, and I'm looking to find out before wasting (Potentially) anymore time.

So, if I switched to 12/12 and found out it was a female, could I (Gradually?) switch back to veg state by changing the hours over time? Would this cause any damage or trama to the plant? I have plenty of room for it to grow, and I would really like to make this one nice, since I would love to be able to get some clones (Healthy ones) out of it.

Edit- BTW- If the plant is forming pretty tightly (As in their is literally less than an inch between leaf sections) does this help indicate it will probably be a female? Maybe I've heard wrong, but don't males streach more then females naturally, or is that total b/s?

Hey MJ.. this is what I would do..

I would clone your plant.. take as many clones as you can.. (dont kill your plant ... LOL)
Then wait 3-7 days (let plant recover from cloning) and switch to flower cycle (12/12).... you shuldn't be growing big plants while using fluorescents anyway.... then NEVER look back..

just go all the way to harvest and pray she is a female.. ... if she is a female, you will have a bunch of killer clones and saved yourself 2 weeks without having to switch back and forth between veg and flower..

if it is male.. well then, you just wasted a few rockwool cubes for cloning.. well worth the risk for saving time!

iloveyou

Thanks for the info, as I did not know quite a bit of that.

However, since time is not a real concern to me, (First grow, I just hope I get some weed out of it ) from what you said I'm guessing I CAN switch them from flower back to veg, it would just take a few weeks? If so, thats not a problem, since like I said, I have all the time in the world.

After I get this one plant, a female plant that is, working well I plan on moving on to bigger things. (Hopefully not such a wussy floro setup, at the least. )

Just a conformation on exactly how to switch from flower back to veg would be nice. Would I just go from the 12/12 light cycle back to the 18/6 or some such variation?

Thanks in advance.

doing this will significantly increase your chances of the female turning hermie on you...

whatever your time is on now....... switch it to 12/12. when ever you see signs that it is male/female change it back to whatever time u want @ any point that you want.

kochab said:

whatever your time is on now....... switch it to 12/12. when ever you see signs that it is male/female change it back to whatever time u want @ any point that you want.

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Thanks mucho. ;D

tmusic said:

doing this will significantly increase your chances of the female turning hermie on you...

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I have heard this from many people. but I have never actually seen it happen and I have seen many many grows get switched back and forth at least once...

cheers

MJStephens said:

Thanks mucho. ;D

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