Question Running Regular Seeds

KTM690sm said:

Nice I just got set up to do a perpetual photo grow now. Very happy can toss autos along with mothers and clones

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I'm very picky about my perpetual. I have four plants only in my main flower tent. I like to keep things so the plants barely touch each other. Lots of room underneath to feed (I enjoy hand feeding), lots of air movement, and it makes it very quick and simple to empty the tent if I need to.

I still use my old 2x4x5' with a 400W for veg, so I'm limited in space. I typically have two phases of plants in there. Plants that are on week 1-3, and plants that are on week 4-8. Just after I move plants from veg to flower, I have ample space. After four weeks though, the space vanishes. I usually have one extra plant per perpetual cycle in veg. When I move them to flower, I choose the best two, and scrap the extra.

My experiments operation though, I have plants at all manner of varying ages and phases. It's even worse in my veg experiment tent lol

I hear ya I over did it lol

The fastest way is qPCR detection of the Y chromosome. You mail in the cotyledon off a week old seedling and two days later they tell you what sex it is. I think there are several companies offering this service, one does it for $60 for four plants.

Observe & Report said:

The fastest way is qPCR detection of the Y chromosome. You mail in the cotyledon off a week old seedling and two days later they tell you what sex it is. I think there are several companies offering this service, one does it for $60 for four plants.

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I've heard of this and while it seems efficient don't think I'd be into it. But under different circumstances maybe. Paying someone to do my hobby is kinda backwards.

spek9 said:

About a half pound per plant, harvesting two plants every five weeks. I veg for eight weeks. 1000W HPS in a 4x4x6.5' tent.

So, yes, I do pretty well with clones. I don't run mothers for my perpetual production operation. Clones get cut from the veg plants after their third week in veg.

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You seem to have it going on with clones and perpetual growing, that's the goal. Got some things to figure out but I'll get there.

TomAce said:

I keep it simple ...I clip the lowest branch of each plant...place in water...put water bottles on 12/12...once sex is shown I toss em and pull any males if necessary.

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How long does that usually take

Dj. said:

You seem to have it going on with clones and perpetual growing, that's the goal. Got some things to figure out but I'll get there.

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Here's my current schedule. Top row is beginning of the week, second row is end of the week. I hide columns from weeks past, and just add new rows when I need to.

Is there a reason you bought regular seeds if all you were going to do was kill any males you get? You'd be better off buying feminized seeds and not worrying about it. I grow regulars because I make more seeds of every strain I grow. If I was just growing for bud I wouldn't want to waste resources growing plants I'm just going to kill. With regulars it's a 50/50 chance of getting males. Why not just skip the hassle, space, and time growing them and just go feminized?

xtsho said:

Is there a reason you bought regular seeds if all you were going to do was kill any males you get? You'd be better off buying feminized seeds and not worrying about it. I grow regulars because I make more seeds of every strain I grow. If I was just growing for bud I wouldn't want to waste resources growing plants I'm just going to kill. With regulars it's a 50/50 chance of getting males. Why not just skip the hassle, space, and time growing them and just go feminized?

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This is all correct. But I am not a breeder(yet) and there are cool strains That are not avalible to me in fem form.

I am growing some black dog and chocolate mint og from hso both fem. It just so happens GPS only offers Tomahawk in reg. I understand your point and if I had them avalible to me I would choose fem every time, at least until I want to breed something.

Dj. said:

This is all correct. But I am not a breeder(yet) and there are cool strains That are not avalible to me in fem form.

I am growing some black dog and chocolate mint og from hso both fem. It just so happens GPS only offers Tomahawk in reg. I understand your point and if I had them avalible to me I would choose fem every time, at least until I want to breed something.

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As soon as I made that post I thought about that. Usually it's the opposite and you can't get regular seeds. But if it's a strain you really want to grow and all they have is regulars then there's nothing to do but sort through them.

Observe & Report said:

The fastest way is qPCR detection of the Y chromosome. You mail in the cotyledon off a week old seedling and two days later they tell you what sex it is. I think there are several companies offering this service, one does it for $60 for four plants.

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@Aussieaceae

xtsho said:

But if it's a strain you really want to grow and all they have is regulars then

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you'll be getting a stronger mother with them.