lordsoth, thanks for the offering of your recipe for the nutes. sure i'll take them when you have the time to put it in here. i just started using the nutes 3 days ago and i can see the buds are already reacting nicely to them.

Zandor, thank you for the long detailed idea on how to get male flowers. i just finished my 10th day of spraying gibberellic acid, so i already did that. i really need to get some seeds....

so i have a question about this letting it flower longer. can i go ahead and harvest all the buds that are done and just leave the leftover leaves and stem and just keep it in the 12/12 light cycle and it will bring out the male flowers? i have other girls getting ready to go in the system after this is done so if i can at least get some pollen, that would be excellent....yes, so if you could advise me on if i can harvest the buds when i want and if i just keep the plant going...

also, what is the percentage of success with this method? i know gibberellic is iffy sometimes and i would rather not stress it with light or nutes. does this have a high rate of success? thank you very much