Female Seeds next gen c99 - Sexbud

My Sb is back to being the largest plant in the tent. This is what happened.

When I leaned the plant over and pinned it then removed the bottom fan leaves, it exposed all the nodes on the very bottom of the stem. The plant pushed out many bud sites to replace those fans that I removed.

The bottom of the plant is now full of bud sites and even growth I can now take as clones. My plant is about 4-5" tall now with 10-15 bud sites.

LST and defoliation created something of a wall of bud sites similar to a vertical grow. If that is going to equate to more weight who knows but it did produce more sites to grow bud. I also Fimmed them yesterday.

Earlyriser76 said:

My Sb is back to being the largest plant in the tent. This is what happened.

When I leaned the plant over and pinned it then removed the bottom fan leaves, it exposed all the nodes on the very bottom of the stem. The plant pushed out many bud sites to replace those fans that I removed.

The bottom of the plant is now full of bud sites and even growth I can now take as clones. My plant is about 4-5" tall now with 10-15 bud sites.

LST and defoliation created something of a wall of bud sites similar to a vertical grow. If that is going to equate to more weight who knows but it did produce more sites to grow bud. I also Fimmed them yesterday.

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When is flowering supposed to start?

I believe you're 28 days from seed and still I don't see pistils, so it doesn't look like the seed to harvest time is going to be any shorter than if you had veg time. So what's the advantage of 12/12 from seed?

fellowfelon said:

When is flowering supposed to start?

I believe you're 28 days from seed and still I don't see pistils, so it doesn't look like the seed to harvest time is going to be any shorter than if you had veg time. So what's the advantage of 12/12 from seed?

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I don't see them either but the idea of 12/12 is that while I am waiting to see pistils they are vegging. I've also screwed with them a lot. I've done some experimenting and learned a lot but at the expense of the plant I think. If I hadn't LSTed , fimmed, and removed too many fan leaves, those plants would be 12-18" tall by now and nearly as wide.

I cant' have wide plants in my tent and especially with the vertical CFLs now. I'm trying to grow 8 plants in a 2.5 foot wide tent. I don't have a lot of room for each plant, so I have to keep those plants triimed down.

It's like fertilizing your yard, you have to mow more.

Good news everyone!

Female Seeds has finally come up with a verdict as to which one of my plants is the Sexbud.

The shocking results:



Do note that the C99 has been getting like 120w of CFL sidelighting, which has certainly helped its vigor in the nether regions. The Sexbud's buds are significantly fuller and fatter and smell of delicious grapefruit.

fellowfelon said:

Good news everyone!

FS have finally come up with a verdict as to which one of my plants is the Sexbud.

The shocking results:

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Do note that the C99 has been getting like 120w of CFL sidelighting, which has certainly helped its vigor in the nether regions. The Sexbud's buds are significantly fuller and fatter and smell of delicious grapefruit.

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LOL, you know, there is a grapefruit c99 pheno right? Are you going purely by taste?

Earlyriser76 said:

LOL, you know, there is a grapefruit c99 pheno right? Are you going purely by taste?

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Not at all; I am telling you about Female Seeds' conclusion. They say they figured it out by the Sexbud's leaves being slightly thinner (though I don't think I see it :S) and by the difference in the buds.

fellowfelon said:

Not at all; I am telling you about Female Seeds' conclusion. They say they figured it out by the Sexbud's leaves being slightly thinner (though I don't think I see it :S) and by the difference in the buds.

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FS? What do they know. I think they are guessing too .: I'm just joking to keep the suspense longer

I lst'd all mine today. I have a fairly even canopy now. Each 4" pot has about 10-15 bud sites.

Lastest top down view. Looks like they are going good.

It's clear to me FS c99 LST's very well. If sex bud looked different before you couldn't tell it today. All 4 plants look virtually identical.

It's interesting how they are growing. It's as though all the leaves and secondary branches are growing at the exact same rate. It's growing like a Chia Pet into round balls of buds.

I really have no idea what will happen next. My hope is that each bud site will produce a large cola but all small buds is also a possibility.

I'm taking clones soon but hate to cut off these bud sites. Pretty much every one is at the top of the canopy and should grow a flower. I have a lot of them in each pot for sure, but you can never have too many bud sites right?

After what I saw here, I don't know why anyone would top if they could LST. Each one of my plants looks like it's going to grow 5-10 tops and all I did was lay the plant on it's side, and tie it down. The is low stress to the plant doesn't slow down the growth unless you remove too many fan leaves. I'm failing to see the downside of LST.

It could be, that I pull 8 oz or more out of 4 plants which would be more than amazing to me. 4 oz would be great. Hell, 1 oz would be better that 0.

Do you think each plant will only grow 5-10 popcorn buds?

Earlyriser76 said:

It's clear to me FS c99 LST's very well. If sex bud looked different before you couldn't tell it today. All 4 plants look virtually identical.

It's interesting how they are growing. It's as though all the leaves and secondary branches are growing at the exact same rate. It's growing like a Chia Pet into round balls of buds.

I really have no idea what will happen next. My hope is that each bud site will produce a large cola but all small buds is also a possibility.

I'm taking clones soon but hate to cut off these bud sites. Pretty much every one is at the top of the canopy and should grow a flower. I have a lot of them in each pot for sure, but you can never have too many bud sites right?

After what I saw here, I don't know why anyone would top if they could LST. Each one of my plants looks like it's going to grow 5-10 tops and all I did was lay the plant on it's side, and tie it down. The is low stress to the plant doesn't slow down the growth unless you remove too many fan leaves. I'm failing to see the downside of LST.

It could be, that I pull 8 oz or more out of 4 plants which would be more than amazing to me. 4 oz would be great. Hell, 1 oz would be better that 0.

Do you think each plant will only grow 5-10 popcorn buds?

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I've grown several of their C-99's. very uniform strain. Here's what your bud sites will amount to. Not full on colas per se, but they will fatten up nicely. I did essentially the same as you are with your LST.

st0wandgrow said:

I've grown several of their C-99's. very uniform strain. Here's what your bud sites will amount to. Not full on colas per se, but they will fatten up nicely. I did essentially the same as you are with your LST.

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Thanks for posting, and that's fine with me. I'm not looking to grow for photography bragging rights. I don't care what it looks like on the plant, only what total I end up with.

It doesn't matter to me if I grow one big cola that weighs an ounce or 10 colas from the same plant that weighs a total of an ounce. In the end, it's an ounce of bud in my jar and that's the only thing that matters in the end.

Wow...I just combed my plants. LOL I ran my fingers through them like my hair and pulled all those lower tops to the top of the canopy. This is crazy good news as long as those stems support the buds.

Should I LST one more time?

Just starting my 3rd run of sexbud, the yield from growing in coco was 3.5 O so their going back in NFT again to see if I can get 6+ again

fellowfelon said:

How did that survivor turn out?

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It turned out as my best outdoor plant this year. I've been growing some bagseeds and Holland's Hope along and this one is by far the most massive. About 2m tall and a heavy feeder. When I gave a bit stronger than regular veg dose to two Hopes, after a week the leaves on them were very dark green coloured, but they weren't that much bigger. Meanswhile, Sex bud ate it all up and grew so much more in that week, with leaves still quite bright green. I didn't try to give it 2x or even 3x dose in veg, but I have a strong feeling that she would take it all and put it into massive growth. She is in the second week of flower now, I'll see if she handles flowering fertilizer just as well, so I can try to up the dose a little. Looks promising, none the less. I'll try to post some pictures of it soon.

SexBud bud. Day 37 of 12/12.

Stop fucking with them is all I have to say.

I have one c99 that was the runt. I have abused, almost culled it a few times and it's flowering but didn't defoliate it. I barely watered the thing, left roots exposed , exposed roots to light, I bent it over and pined it and generally beat it up. It's in flower.

My others, are 10x the size, 10x time amount of leaf and stem yet no preflowers. They were all under the same lights.

Apparently defoliating too much doesn't slow down growth as much as it appears to slow down flowering time.

This is the 39th day of 12/12. When should I harvest this Sexbud?

I think it's 55-65 days. It may be that you need to check the trichs. I'm guessing at 80% milky and none clear, it might be time to chop.

I think i chopped mine at roughly 8 weeks i don't write nothing down so can't say for certain but the calyx were nice and swollen when she was harvested she has good strength too