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Lets see... it's here in my grow log somewhere... they were cut on the 27th of May, so about 25 days. It took forever to flower because they were very small cuts, about 3" average and the parents weren't alternating nodes yet.. still immature. It went into 12/12 directly from cutting and started flowering June 12.
o wow, directly from cutting? I thought they were supposed to get morethan 12/12 during the initial stage to develop a root system.. if that's not the case I might trythe same for my clones
Well, unless you have a lot of clones I don't recommend it. I am only making clones for sexing purposes. I don't care about yield ATM, and I may have to move before too long so I don't want to have some huge amount of bud that I would have to cut too early. I just wanted to sex them ASAP and get some mothers.
I have an update BTW. Another male and another female showed up. The male was tapwater H and the female was spring water B, so that's two males and two females for spring water, tap water has produced two males and one female. There is one tapwater plant left which hasn't sexed, so mineral concentration in the water seems to not influence the sex of cannabis much if any.
Something is a bit strange with the seeds I grew. All the short stubby super-branchy plants were male, and all the tall skinny lanky plants were female. Does anyone know of some strains that show this odd characteristic? I am glad I didn't use plant shape to "pre-select" which plants I thought were likely to be females cause I would have been screwed. Here's a pic that shows the comparison before I started cutting them, the male plants are all towards the front because I put the tallest ones in the back, and that little sativa-dominant on the left is still unsexed, but it's from a different bag of nasty shwag anyways: Cannabis Forums Message Boards - Medical Marijuana, Cannabis Club, Dispensary, News
Here's pics of the male and female, the male now being roasted and ready to roll in a joint. Not too tasty but will give me a buzz I think, if past experience is any indication. After the pic of the male flower is a pic of the branchiness of his father. I've never heard of anything like that before. I also have some new pics of my current starlet, Spring G. She is really looking a lot nicer, and has TRICHOMES like I never thought I would see without shelling out $20/g for it!! The third pic is Spring G's little bud taken without the flash, the fourth is the same shot but with the flash, and that blue color doesn't show in regular light which is why I take a flash picture and non-flash. The flash looks unrealistically "juicy" like it's been photoshopped or something. The last pic is an extreme closeup taken with the flash (That fakey juicy effect IS kinda fun even if a bit misleading :D).
Most of the trichs on Spring G which was my first girl to show sex are cloudy now. :) I was going to start using Jack's African Violet Food on it because the lowest leaves are turning a sort of orangy autumn color and I think the MG soil has run out of nutes but I guess if it's mostly cloudy it won't be too long before I start seeing some amber and it will be time to chop. Looks like I might get .5-.75 g from her although I may be overestimating quite a bit lol. It'll definitely be enough to know whether she's good or not.
My other females aren't developing much crystals yet. The sativa-dominant hasn't sexed yet, if she doesn't sex soon I may get rid of it, but I kinda want to see what happens with it.
I wonder if it's too late to start adding molasses to my water... hmmm.
I have a picture update on Spring G. She sure is pretty especially to be so small. I'm definitely going to veg my next clone and use LST to at least get a stem looped around the entire circumference of one of my pots. I think that'd be about the right amount I want per plant from her. Anyway, here's pics.
The closeup pic is what I see all the way from the bottom to the top of that little bud. Mmm, can't wait for those trichs to start going amber! I did use some nutes, I used the jack's classic african violet food at 1/4 tsp. per gallon of spring water. If I start seeing amber trichs I'm gonna flush the hell out of her with plain distilled water I guess. BTW, my tapwater averages 8.5 pH with a range between 8.1 and 9.5 throughout the water distribution system, and a ca/mg hardness of 115 if I remember our water quality report correctly.
So much information in this thread to try to digest in one helping but one thing that is sticking out in my mind was something i read early on in the thread about trichromes.
I realize that you smoked vegging plants out of necessity not desire, but you said that you saw trichromes on them and something about small leaves having slightly less or something.
The bottom line is that the entire plant, with the exception of stem and root, contains thc and other cannabinoids. Thusly getting you stoned, albeit unpleasant getting there, but there none the less.
Trichromes don't appear until flowering. The exact week will depend on the strain, but in my experience, it's usually around week 3 that they begin to push hard. Trichromes are the most CONCENTRATED storage center of cannabinoids in the plant which is why we all want frosty nugs. They swell up with rich resin throughout flowering, until they start to oxidize and turn rust colored, signifying that your smoke has reached ripeness.
I just wanted to put this in here in the event that someone else may have been confused reading in here. I'm gonna linger for a minute, but if you have anything for discussion, i'll try to keep my eye on here.
Your mango looks really nice irydyum. :)
Shit's looking frosty! :thumbsup: Looks to be like it's going to be some nice smoke! Kudos my man!
Oh yeah! I just can't wait until I actually grow that one out some before flowering.... mmm. :)
The little sativa just flowered. That took forever, but I guess that's what sativas do. I hope it turns out good smoke.