Ratlady
11-28-2005, 03:59 AM
Hi guys! Got another query for you.
Started some White Widow seeds. After 4 weeks a mate with a fancy set-up offered to 'borrow' some of them to 'bring them on' for us. Fair enough. Within 4 weeks they're so big that his growroom looks like it's full of rhubarb plants! These are bodybuilding plants, of the Dorian Yates variety.
My questions are:
a) The plants are growing in a rigid geometrical formation that we haven't seen before: two side-branches at 90 degrees to the stem, & two supplementary branches growing at 45 degrees between the 'straight' branch & the stem. So you've got stem: l, branch: ___ , & a small branch diagonally in-between: /.
There's no space on the internode for preflowers! The little spurs are there (stipules?), but these 45 degree branches come out of the junction where the preflowers are supposed to be: how are we supposed to sex them accurately?!
b) Our mate's forced his own seedlings & clones too; they're all monstrous sized. But we were wondering if forcing plants in this way (not that I'm too sure what way he's doing it, other than FAST!) could make them alter sex? From what we can tell (which isn't much with these weird geometrical plants) everything in his growroom is male, which includes random seeds as well as clones taken from definite females. Could it be because of the way he's forced them? And is there any way he can make them change back because he's in despair!!
Sorry this is so long! and I hope it's clear enough. I'm now going to see if I can post you a pic of a leaf off our mutant ninja seedlings - bear in mind that the plant itself is only 7 weeks old from seed: the leaf is probably 3/4 weeks old, & 7" long already! Does it look a bit over-big to you? I'm new to forcing plants; it seems....... unkind (well, I AM a woman!).
(Zandor: just to show there's no hard feelings, here's one I thought you might appreciate -
'Perfect efficiency is impossible: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.'
:D)
Started some White Widow seeds. After 4 weeks a mate with a fancy set-up offered to 'borrow' some of them to 'bring them on' for us. Fair enough. Within 4 weeks they're so big that his growroom looks like it's full of rhubarb plants! These are bodybuilding plants, of the Dorian Yates variety.
My questions are:
a) The plants are growing in a rigid geometrical formation that we haven't seen before: two side-branches at 90 degrees to the stem, & two supplementary branches growing at 45 degrees between the 'straight' branch & the stem. So you've got stem: l, branch: ___ , & a small branch diagonally in-between: /.
There's no space on the internode for preflowers! The little spurs are there (stipules?), but these 45 degree branches come out of the junction where the preflowers are supposed to be: how are we supposed to sex them accurately?!
b) Our mate's forced his own seedlings & clones too; they're all monstrous sized. But we were wondering if forcing plants in this way (not that I'm too sure what way he's doing it, other than FAST!) could make them alter sex? From what we can tell (which isn't much with these weird geometrical plants) everything in his growroom is male, which includes random seeds as well as clones taken from definite females. Could it be because of the way he's forced them? And is there any way he can make them change back because he's in despair!!
Sorry this is so long! and I hope it's clear enough. I'm now going to see if I can post you a pic of a leaf off our mutant ninja seedlings - bear in mind that the plant itself is only 7 weeks old from seed: the leaf is probably 3/4 weeks old, & 7" long already! Does it look a bit over-big to you? I'm new to forcing plants; it seems....... unkind (well, I AM a woman!).
(Zandor: just to show there's no hard feelings, here's one I thought you might appreciate -
'Perfect efficiency is impossible: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.'
:D)