i looked at what was gonna be my mother today and had sum ??

[the image reaper]

I don't switch to 12/12 to determine sex, as I have seen recommended in various sources ... I just wait it out, patience ... the ONE time I did switch back and forth between veg/flower/veg/flower for sexing, it caused weird mutants, resulting in one-leafed branches, from the light-stress ... (it was a 100% sativa, which I suspect , 'may' be more sensitive to light changes, just a theory) ... there's no replacement for patience, when growing plants ... :smokin:

the image reaper Reviewed by the image reaper on 09-29-2007. i looked at what was gonna be my mother today and had sum ?? ok first off i had a mother or was gonna be one awhile back i switched to 12/12 to show sex so i could cut the males of the bunch and they showed and the 1 i kept the mother i switched it back to 18/6 well the ? is i looked at her today and she has alot of other growth around the white hairs/nodes is this normal?? or could it be a hermie? i'll try to get sum pics just wondering if it was normal since i had it in 12/12 then back to 18/6 and she was starting to flower. Rating: 5

[Weedhound]

Reaper is right I'm afaid....there's no real shortcuts and it is one of the chances you take. My point was that I wouldn't write the plant off for hermie-ing in response to a stress like that....I'd consider it a fairly normal response so I woudn't put a plant that hermies for that reason out of my stock......but if it hermied because it was Wednesday afternoon and it was just feeling manly I might think again.

Palerider.....make sure what you "sense" isn't your own fear.

Pharma Can I tried to rep you for that very nice sentiment but I must have done it recently because I can't.....thanks for the comment.

[palerider7777]

I don't switch to 12/12 to determine sex, as I have seen recommended in various sources ... I just wait it out, patience ... the ONE time I did switch back and forth between veg/flower/veg/flower for sexing, it caused weird mutants, resulting in one-leafed branches, from the light-stress ... (it was a 100% sativa, which I suspect , 'may' be more sensitive to light changes, just a theory) ... there's no replacement for patience, when growing plants ... :smokin:

this is true and i did wait it out on my others and it took 9 weeks and still did'nt show sex. so by that time the roots were matted together as there in the same res so i did'nt get to take a mother, and that was my whole point was to really get a mother going. so i planted 5 more and i tried the switch as i've read on here alot, some say it's the only way to go and others say it's the worst. so i was at a point where i needed a mother and btw i don't have much room as if i did i'd for sure do it the way i wanted to. but im in a 5x5 area and i blocked off a 1.5ft by 3ft area to make a mother in. but thats all the room i have right now. so im limted to what i can do unless i drop everything and just seek a mother. but i was trying to grow and get a mother if that makes any sense.

[palerider7777]

palerider - When you switch the plant back to 18/6 it is going to re-veg; which means it is going to go through a metamorphisis during which it will get all sorts of strange growth that hardly even resembles an mj plant.

A hermie plant just grows balls, it doesn't drastically change its appearance. If your plant has strange looking growth, and if you have changed the lights to 18/6, most likely what you are seeing is the re-veg growth. If this is the case, it'll take about 2 weeks for the plant to complete the re-veg and get back to normal.



Not very well, you can't. Weedhound is a sweetheart and was only trying to help.

PC :smokin:

thats what it looks like i don't see any balls just weird leafy growth

[palerider7777]

Reaper is right I'm afaid....there's no real shortcuts and it is one of the chances you take. My point was that I wouldn't write the plant off for hermie-ing in response to a stress like that....I'd consider it a fairly normal response so I woudn't put a plant that hermies for that reason out of my stock......but if it hermied because it was Wednesday afternoon and it was just feeling manly I might think again.

Palerider.....make sure what you "sense" isn't your own fear.

Pharma Can I tried to rep you for that very nice sentiment but I must have done it recently because I can't.....thanks for the comment.

lol it's ok but btw i have no fear. i can do all things through christ which strengthens me so no fear here. and u did'nt quite word it that way b4 now what u wrote makes better sense.

[Weedhound]

Palerider.....what about some sort of feminized seeds? Then you know you have a female. May cost a few $$ at the start but I bet you'll be happy you did later.

[Weedhound]

lol it's ok but btw i have no fear. i can do all things through christ which strengthens me so no fear here. and u did'nt quite word it that way b4 now what u wrote makes better sense.

Far be it for me to interfere with a man and his religon. And are you saying it's the responsibility of the AUTHOR to make sure he is understood? :stoned:

Good luck with your grow palerider.

[palerider7777]

Far be it for me to interfere with a man and his religon. And are you saying it's the responsibility of the AUTHOR to make sure he is understood? :stoned:

Good luck with your grow palerider.

no not at all lol but i get that alot in here myself i just thought that was the normal way of being on here as people say it to me all the time. not that i was trying to be a prick or anything iv'e just become alil more on the defensive side as i get attitude alot around here so to say in a way this site has hradened me alil more but really im a softy for the most part lmao. and i've heard mixed things about fem seeds whats ur take on them i would buy them if i knew that were better but i hear they hermie more than most or something like that is that true?? whats the pros/cons of them over the reg seeds u buy??

btw stinky gave ma an email to a guy she buys from some times and he made up a real good deal i can't say no to, some crosses he's bread together like blonde/ ww and others but i'll ask him if he has the fem seeds.

[Weedhound]

Personally I've been very happy with feminized seeds myself. X-Crispi turned me on to them and I have to say that KNOWING you have a female going in is the way to do it imo. Talk about saving time and space! I use Reverse on my plants so don't have a problem with hermies but I don't clone or anything else either so I really don't know whether you'd want to use it or not for your plants.....Stinky or somebody probably knows.

I do have some unsexed seeds that I want to germinate.....but honestly palerider since going with the X-seeds I'm having a VERY hard time making myself plant them. :wtf:

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[palerider7777]

so whats the % u get using fem seeds is it 100% for sure every time gonna be a fem? and i have a gal of the dutch master Penetrator i got free from the dro store but it don't really say much other than it's for spraying them with it do u use reverse with this??or do u do 1 at a time?