White hairs?

hydroponic

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hey guys pics to come soon of My plants in a diff set up I am getting like white hairs and what seem to be bud sites on my only 6 week old plant it is in a fish tank bubleponic set up with identical conditions on all 3 plants they share water,nutes, light shedule everything yet 1 seems to want to start budding? These are unknown strains from random sacks of crippy that I have found seeds.
 

Bullethead21

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Ive read about auto flowering strains that automatically start tot flower after a few weeks (3 to 6).....its possible also that some strains show sex during vegatative growth stages.....id be happpy!!
 

Old in the Way

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Sounds like female pre-flowers. Good sign. It is not likely to autoflower from bag seed. Actually 99.999% it won't. Mum #1 you can call her. Flower away or take clones from this one.
 

hydroponic

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Really! My bud who recently did a indoor dirt CFL grow and was sucsessfull said that they are lowriders that should be discarded as they will not be able to suppourt themselves. But ill take your word old in the way as you seem to be very expereienced. So I should seperate this one and put it into flowering nutes and light cycle now and hopefully in about 52 days maybe longer I will have a micro yeild? Im really interrested in this plant now as if we can clone it and it flowers this quickly and I do get a mico yeild from this I will prob only grow this strain if the bud is good too as this is what I wanted to begin with but im in the USA and cant order feminized seeds from out of the US I really wanted a small quick flowering plant that I can fill a closet with and S.O.G


ALSO forgot to mention it has yet to develop a leaf set of more than 3?
 

Old in the Way

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At 6 weeks it is entirely possible that it is showing preflowers-they usually do right around that time.

If you have someone who has grown it out he may know. You say the leaves are only 3 fingered not 5-at 6 weeks old this seems unusual to me. Lowrider is a cannabis ruderalis-as opposed to indica or sativa (if memory serves)-i might google some pics of cannabis ruderalis and see if it is a three bladed leaf. This will give you a good idea if it is or not.

As to support-just give them some if they need it-no need to bin it when you can tie or stake it up-like tomatoes ya know.

Now there are a few things to understand about bag seed before you put this one into flower.
Bag seed often comes from a hermie in a crop of otherwise sensimilla nugs. These nugs could be any variety, from skunk to white widow to diesel and so on. If these seeds come from weed that is a hybrid-of any kind (f1, f2, etc) then it will not be a stabilized strain that will match the nugs it came from-it might, but it is just as possible it could revert back to any of the 2, 3, 4 or more species of cannabis that went into making that hybrid-so if you germinated 3 seeds from the same bag, in theory you could end up with three different strains one or more of which may be the same as the bag of nugs or any of its ancestors. Also the possibilty of hermaphroditic plants are very high from bagseed since the source was often times a hermie, thus you need to keep a close eye on them in flower.

I hope some of this makes sense. The only time I have ever grown bagseed i got 2 distinct strains-from the same bag of dank, grew them till sexually mature (showing pre-flowers) and took clones, flowered the clones to see what yield, growth habit, flowering time and most importantly taste and smoke/buzz was like. From there I decided what worked (if any for my op), maintained mums of the winners and currently feed clones into flower from those i liked. It is still one of 7 strains that i maintain and grow every 3rd or 4th batch in a perpetual harvest SoG set-up. Great strains have come from unknown bagseed-just look at Chemdog. It is all about cloning the mums and picking only the best phenotypes.

As to your issue of being in the US-me too-bible belt even. Check out seedbankupdate.com-i think you will find plenty of reputable sources that ship "worldwide". I have used a couple on his list and have never had any problems.
 

hydroponic

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Ya I just may try that but they def wont be shipped to my house lol. well I am verry interrested in the genetics im reading a bit now about the difference in indica and sativa as im completelyt lost with that and most of the genetics side of this. But I did understand your point about how this could revert back to regs or a less potent bud. Also these are all just random crippy seeds saved up over time none of these seeds are the same. I guess with bagseed it is pretty much a lost cause to put the money in hydro systems and such unless you get lucky with one strain. I guess I need to go about finding some feminized seeds of some dank bud online as I dont wana waste my time with deformed unknown potentcy strains just seems to be the smarter way to go. I have decided to get some 400 watt or 150watt HPS from the home depotfor flowering as I want to see results I have spent over 300 getting this all togeather and I am not one to give up.
 

xxtoadxx

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lets just say.... all of mine are showing preflowers in 18/6 and are only 12 inches high... not too big ;) at least not the size of their mother, which didnt show hairs til like 2nd day 12/12
 
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