Sad days with first grow

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #1

Seems that one of my plants in my first grow has turned out to be a male, pic attached

I think it was because I used tap water on a number of occasions to water it.

Hopefully the other one will be a female, it hasn't shown its sex yet though

 

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weezer

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #2

it is a male but i dont think it had any thing to do with tap water
good luck with the other

 

desertrat

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #3

too bad - thats definitely a male. kill it before it pollinates yur girl. not the tap water - its normal to get one male unless you started with fem clone or seeds.

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #4

desertrat said:

too bad - thats definitely a male. kill it before it pollinates yur girl. not the tap water - its normal to get one male unless you started with fem clone or seeds.

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the tap water where I live is really hard though and has a lot of calcium in it.

I already took it away from the other plant and stuck it in the garden, where it will undoubtedly die.

 

KannaBitch

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #5

riposoeterno said:

the tap water where I live is really hard though and has a lot of calcium in it.

I already took it away from the other plant and stuck it in the garden, where it will undoubtedly die.

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...if it was the water it would have made it a hermie.

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #6

KannaBitch said:

...if it was the water it would have made it a hermie.

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ah okay thanks, sorry about that I was wrong then, didn't know... first time grower.

 

desertrat

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #7

your outdoor male can easily pollinate your indoor female. why aren't you killing it???

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #8

desertrat said:

your outdoor male can easily pollinate your indoor female. why aren't you killing it???

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it isn't anywhere close, the female is at the front of the house 4 floors up, is it still risky??

sorry if I seem ignorant but this is a first time for me and I just don't know these things

 

desertrat

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #9

yea, you need to kill it. pollen can travel miles in the air and anywhere on your clothes.

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #10

Ok, killed it.

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #11

the one on the left in this picture is the now deceased.

The one on the right hasn't shown its gender yet but was planted and sprouted at the same time as the other, so fingers crossed.


Here's to it hopefully being a female

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #12

haha not all was lost.

Dried out and rolled up the leaves from the male plant


worked out nicely!

 

desertrat

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #13

i'll try that next time. i tried to make bubble hash and failed

 

mistaphuck

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #14

[Ok, killed it.]<did you take it out back with the shotgun?

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #15

mistaphuck said:

[Ok, killed it.]<did you take it out back with the shotgun?

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Almost shed a tear, atleast I said goodbye.

 

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riposoeterno

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #16

desertrat said:

i'll try that next time. i tried to make bubble hash and failed

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i'm guessing it would also work as a filler to make some nice big one

 

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KifBox

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #17

I made butter out of mine, but yeah I had a shitload of males from a bunch of bagseed, and no it's not the water just nature and you did the right thing by offing the male.

just wait a little longer when the female gets puffy. By then you will be all read up on cloning and clone the hell out of her. Then you will have a bunch of new little minions...

 

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KickToTheHead

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• Sep 1, 2008

• #18

desertrat said:

yea, you need to kill it. pollen can travel miles in the air and anywhere on your clothes.

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Bum bees can also polinate it.