Is Transplanting OK when your Genitalia are Exposed?.

Got 8 bagseed plants at day 90 under Flos. Only now are they showing nobules at petiole crotches. . If 90 days sounds late for sexing to show - I went with 24/0 during first 8 weeks. And switched over to 18/6 only about 3 weeks ago.

Meanwhile - during research on wtfluff might be taking so long - I read StickyAtticâ??s great piece on transplanting. Sure enough I saw how fast the plants wanted to another transplanting through the stupid clear OJ containers I put them in. But I figured hey, should see pistils any day after day 70 - at which point I transplant mother into fresh 5gal - and then phase into flowering.

Stickyâ??s advice about transplanting was/is nothing short of pure gold.
I get the feeling Cannibis just loves the hell out of good transplanting. Next time I will plan to at least one more intermediary upsizing transplant for the roots.

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So - root rought risk/odds issue, aside for a moment - how important do you guys think it is to just keep plants calm during the sexing phase.

Hoping some of you guys might help with this decision. Because tho I had read some info about which side of neutral pH 7 encourages preponderance of females, I couldnâ??t find info again to confirm which so I spent like 8 weeks zeroing pH at 7. Last few weeks I targeted 6.6pH.

After reading Stickyâ??s piece I got some of those gallon grow bags and want to do a transplant now. But...shrug.

Again. This question is posted just as sex nobulettes are beginning to show (I should really take pics of how indeterminate these nubs looked yesterday under a 30x loupe. But, relative noob that I am (2nd grow here), I think I outta not stress the plants out with a photoshoot. Not right now anyway. So afraid I am already on track for choosing between Herms or root rought. Or even better, Herms WITH root rought.

Seems to me the plants would prefer to aim next couple of days energy at the hormonal thing. Rather than recover from a much, nay, !MUCHMUCH!, overdue transplanting.

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Now the other thing is this. Can you bump in a few nights of full 12/12 to induce sexing and then revert to a few more weeks of 18/6 vegging, then officially into full flowering. Iâ??m still fuzzy on that call.

[Notes: Re: Grow Method Specific (sorry)
My stealth flowering method of choice is a one plant, well ventilated (w/ new 48â?� T5s x 6Bulb, HEPA intake (challenge is negative air pressure, I hope resolved by filter find online) plus OdorSok, dragged by Elicent 6â?�) - horizontal 60cf cabinet grow. (Thanks out to rhizome for calculations. Helped emensely, sir.) Only 28â?� deep.

Height for this new cab will go about 47 inches. However overall cab width will be about 70â?�, to include smallish compartment for DIY cloner with fogging. So call it 54â?� wide mock SCROG, trelissed at 14â?� off cab floor, incorporating an EXTERNAL 5gal down underneath, in a wider tupperware drainpan, supported by 2x4 pieces, on bare concrete floor with a drain hole for measuring and purging full H2O flushings.]

Oh. One more thing. Newish concrete basement, at 44.91 parallel, means dry. And night temps were dropping to 63F. Annd - just for everyoneâ??s amusement - without the cabinet online I was forced to open air grow (vertically) in same dry coldish basement. So, in lieu of a half tank of heating oil, I had a cheap small electric space heater 30"s away, opposed by a small other-side agitation fan. I gather the cheap circuitry of the variable adjustment got confused. The heater had a melt down one night. Complete with a really 85F+ blow. Plants lower 7 nodes or so all got nuked off. Currently working on plans for an intake lung curtain to resolve humidity, temp and any negative pressure issues during cabinet flowering. Tanks, ppl.

Just need to know if I should transplant or wait till after Sexing runs it's course. Even then I think I will do one more intermediary transplant of the - fingers crossed - mother plant. Out.

Transplant now. Forget all the theories about increasing ratio of females. I have never had a negative ratio (more males than females) when using 10 or more seeds, regardless of environment. I've also never experienced transplant shock and I do nothing special for them. Transplanting during sexing is fine, if not beneficial.

grey1223,

Thanks.

Completed transplanting 6 of my 8 yesterday. Other 2 bagseed sprouts were runts from get go.

Big news is, after one night, whether purely coincidental or not, I do believe I got myself a girl. And whatâ??s cooler is, sheâ??s the one whose lower 7 nodes best survived that cheap space heater meltdown.

Sheâ??s a little bit shorter than the original champ (canâ??t say that guyâ??s got verifiable balls as yet but it looked sufficiently horny to me to take the all but confirmed dame upstairs for the overnight.

Just a couple a things I might still be pretty doofy about here.

Please factor my following, other â??winging itâ?� mistakes here:
9 days on new 6 bulb mix T5â??s - close in (?) - approx 4â?� - and too mild leaf agitation
Normal vertical plant orientation.

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Meanwhile a mixup with Tek lamp distributor left me with a mix of T5â??s (3veg+3flo) and without the extra set I now gotta reorder for full flowering set --- not to downplay full veg thing I want to increase staulk bendable height/length enough, so that from final pot soil surface level, to the lowest usable secondary node, ends up giving you the 28â?� of stalk you need to bend it into a good temp 90deg vegging nesting cycle profile until you unleashed your SCROG of one or two plant seccondaries all over the place.

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Canâ??t the AtticOdor or somebody automatically rechannel all this typing into my own personal grow log intro or something. Or we really really have to start all over and describe the intended technique from anew?

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Swear to Ghawd. Okay then whatevr to Cheney, what the heck, Iâ??d rather be makin up for lost years of gardening non-doofiness here, if some one among you doesnâ??t mind. Work with me guys. Please. Gotta pretty neat cab concept going on here. Dang it but I am really pretty psyched someone resembling a real lady showed up here this afternoon.

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Stellar call, greg. Hindu genuflection bow thing inserted (here).

I so appreciate it. Long time street bud broker is relo-ing offshore. So this grow (and cloning) has to go right. :thumbsup: