Pre-sexing, then re-vegging?

Gquebed said:

At least a week. For me it has usually been about 16to 20 days...

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from seed ???i have never seen it that fast from germination to showing sex easy 6 - 7 weeks for solid confirmation

Darth Vapour said:

from seed ???i have never seen it that fast from germination to showing sex easy 6 - 7 weeks for solid confirmation View attachment 3516273View attachment 3516274

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It has been a consistent 35ish days for me from seed. Start to see the pair of pistils popping up at the nodes.

What has varied from strain to strain is the start of flowers after flipping to 12/12. Some strains have been quick...8-10 days. But most have been 16 to 20 days... but that is after the pistils showed around 35ish days in veg....

Gquebed said:

Why waste the time? Germinating from seed.... most strains will show sex in 30 to 35 days in veg. Cull the males then.

Whereas.... germinating from seed....it takes a couple weeks to for the seedling to get rooted enough to bother flipping to 12/12. Then it takes at least 1 week to show sex and then you have to go back to 18/6 for a couple weeks to get it back to veg. At the very least youll need 30 to 35 days to sex them but probably a lot more.

So why not veg until you see pistils then cull the males and flip?

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I did that for an experimental because to monster crop a clone the root mass is not as big as the whole plant being monster cropped, I have been lucky for it not hermie but downside is it didn't flower as quick the second time around. But worth the messing around tho when she decides to finish

Just buy a sex testing kit. Done and done,no need to flower

It's 2015 people

legallyflying said:

Just buy a sex testing kit. Done and done,no need to flower

It's 2015 people

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Link?

After the first true leaves spear we pluck and crush the cotyledons.
Easy peasy, no guess work and NEVER grow a male plant.

http://phylosbioscience.com/plant-sex-test-instructions/

So it's $10 a card and you can check two plants with each card? Hmmm

legallyflying said:

After the first true leaves spear we pluck and crush the cotyledons.
Easy peasy, no guess work and NEVER grow a male plant.

http://phylosbioscience.com/plant-sex-test-instructions/

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I think I like the old school methods... Every regular seed I had wich have been herbies freebie afghan put em all down let them grow and look for node distance the taller ones were nearly a guarantee male but stick in flower just incase or clone the bugger.. the advantages are the learning curve or to up your cloning skills it's fun why be quick when you can slowly learn things?!!! But that's just me lol plus I can't clone to save my life

Because time is money. That's why. And flipping a plant to sex it, the flip back into veg.. you will have more trannys than a Bangkok night club.

Nobody wants to see bananas on chicks...

Good point but NOT IN MY HOUSE lol and I grow for personal an more like an education for me too. Attention to detail of the plant will keep them straight... Not allways tho

bellcore said:

So it's $10 a card and you can check two plants with each card? Hmmm

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Read much? 4 plants per card.

legallyflying said:

After the first true leaves spear we pluck and crush the cotyledons.
Easy peasy, no guess work and NEVER grow a male plant.

http://phylosbioscience.com/plant-sex-test-instructions/

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Great link, but you have personal experience? Also, how the hell do I order on the website? It just keeps taking me back to the feeding of info lol

Yeah we tested with them before. Not sure on the link...I'm driving

legallyflying said:

Because time is money. That's why. And flipping a plant to sex it, the flip back into veg.. you will have more trannys than a Bangkok night club.

Nobody wants to see bananas on chicks...

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I always have a corner of the budding room where I can keep un-sexed plants in 1 gallon until they show sex, I am not worried about growing a vigorous plant at this point so residual light is ok, as soon as I can see sex I top aggressively, transplant into 7-10 gallons and veg for 7 to 15 days. I often grow 12/12 from seed too I ll plant 3 seeds in the pot, if 2 or all 3 are females I ll let them be if only 1 is female I put in veg room. 3 plants 12/12 from seed in a 10 gallons will yield as well as 1 plant that went back to veg.

if your gonna sex and reveg instead u might as well just let it start going into flower then take clones and monstercrop ur favorite plants.....heres my monster cropped buzz light gear vs the original mother llook how many more colas the monstercrop has then the original plant with just being topped 4 times

Interesting stuff here. I just popped 6 reg. I just take a small cutting from each one when they are big enough and put them in a dome under 12/12. The cuttings will show sex in about a week and now I know which are male and female without having to put the actual plant into flower. Works well for me. Actually in the process right now.

TBH no matter what even on 12 / 12 from seed will take same amount of time or pretty dam close most will veg a seedling till they can clone it then flip clones on 12 12

Sure a person can go straight to 12 / 12 but the revegging part is whats going to kill you expect pending how far you let them bloom out 8 weeks before all plant reverts back and looks like a vegging plant

2ANONYMOUS said:

TBH no matter what even on 12 / 12 from seed will take same amount of time or pretty dam close most will veg a seedling till they can clone it then flip clones on 12 12

Sure a person can go straight to 12 / 12 but the revegging part is whats going to kill you expect pending how far you let them bloom out 8 weeks before all plant reverts back and looks like a vegging plant

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it only takes about 2-3 weeks to switch back to veg

Simple fix. Sex one branch. BOOM!