Connection between 24hr lights & males - Page 18

skunkushybrid · #**171** 02-19-2008, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by HashPlant

Does this include the small seedling leaves, the circular ones?

It doesn't include anything... the article is a load of bullshit.

Seeds are predisposed to be one sex or the other. Males will grow taller and mature faster than females... basic cultivation.

Conoclast · #**172** 03-14-2008, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Garden Knowm

Grrow 18/6 and hen switch to 12/12 whem appropriate ...

if you are usibng a 1000 watt bulb that will be when your plant is 24 inches tall..

if you are using a 1000 watt bulb and are growing 30 plants then 12/12 when they are 4-6 nodes tall..

if you are growing... with CFL's flower (12/12) when your plants have 4-5 nodes...

different situations call for different scenarios...

THE MAIN FACTOR IS LLIIGGHHTTIINNGG..

can the "light" provide enough penetration/lumens for THE GROW/PLANT...?

Most lights can not penetrate and create quality buds through even the smallest amount of foliage..

iloveyou

I'm using cfls and was going to try LST.. does this mean that you can't do it with cfls? or that's fine?

Kaya08 · #**173** 03-14-2008, 11:25 AM

am i the only one who couldnt see the picture of the 48oz producing plant??? can anyone repost it i really wanna see it!

mjgrower · #**174** 07-30-2008, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by mr_issues

So if I use the 16/8 light setting untill they flower, then drop them down to 12/12 I should get some pretty damn good buds right? Im still a little new to the way im doing this. Never used seeds before untill now.

Are you using a contactor with your timer? I got burnt by this a twice before I find out your timers always blow unless you use a contactor
search flea bay for "hydroponics contactor".

I heard that your plants grow bigger on 24 in veg but i may be wrong. you'd need to do the same test using the same seeds and conditions etc a few times over to really test the theory I guess.

Vizion420 · #**175** 07-30-2008, 11:13 AM

you should use 18/6 for veg they live like we do and everything living needs rest

homegrownboy · #**176** 07-30-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by videoman40

I just made a post, and it got me to thinking after I posted it. I was posting in a thread where he was bitching about getting all males, and rightfully so. I'd be pissed if that happened to me too.
My post included a quote from dutch passion seed company that says:

From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are:

* a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
* a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
* a higher humidity will give more females.
* a lower temperature will give more females.
* more blue light will give more females.
* Fewer hours of light will give more females.

It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions.

What got me to thinking was the line that said: Fewer hours of light will give more females. The reason I point this out is, I've seen a few debates recently about 18/6 lighting vs 24/0 lighting.

If the above paragraph is correct and true, wouldn't 24/0 produce more males?

I also posted this information a month ago...seems no1 seems to believe it. I decided to go with a schedule of 16/8 this go around as according to High Times would be the best light time for female plants. So far all my plants are females, and NO sign of hermies...YET!!

homegrownboy · #**177** 07-30-2008, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by skunkushybrid

It doesn't include anything... the article is a load of bullshit.

Seeds are predisposed to be one sex or the other. Males will grow taller and mature faster than females... basic cultivation.

It's the fact of the females turning hermie. The information is useful for not letting that happen to your females.