Question for the experienced

[purpleskunk777]

I have many bag-seeds that I've planted that are now in the seedling stage. Is there a reliable way to determine flowering time based on the seedlings' characteristics?

For example, one seedling has close nodes and is wide-leaved. Does this necessarily mean that the strain is indica/indica-dominant and will therefore have a shorter flowering period?

In other words, are a plants' characteristics mutually exclusive from its flowering time?

purpleskunk777 Reviewed by purpleskunk777 on 12-09-2010. Question for the experienced I have many bag-seeds that I've planted that are now in the seedling stage. Is there a reliable way to determine flowering time based on the seedlings' characteristics? For example, one seedling has close nodes and is wide-leaved. Does this necessarily mean that the strain is indica/indica-dominant and will therefore have a shorter flowering period? In other words, are a plants' characteristics mutually exclusive from its flowering time? Rating: 5

[purpleskunk777]

Oh, please, 21 views and no replies??! This question isn't that stupid, is it?

This is quite disappointing...

[GaGrown]

With my years of growing indica. I have found that most of them have a 6-8 week flowering time and sativa's are longer up to 14 weeks.

To answer your question.. Most of the time unless it's a hybrid.would follow it's traits as flowering time.:thumbsup::jointsmile:

[canniwhatsis]

My Grand daddy Purple is a pure indica, however the leaf structure is very sativa.

White Widow is a sativa dom (60-70%), however my seed grown girl has fairly fat leaves very similar to my Blueberry (indica dom 80%)

Is there a way to tell how long the flower will be on bag seed? No, not really.

Even tho I keep my room clean and free of males and hermies, I do have a male in flower in a separate area. A single grain of pollen on my shirt from that WW male could get on my Vanniluna Female and create a cross that might exhibit completely different growth/flowering characteristics.


Point is, if you don't know the strain the seed came from, and don't know the source of the pollen, you cant really judge flowering time based on the shape of the leaves.

[canniwhatsis]

Concerning the #views vs # responses, I've got a thread on a strain 273 views, 11 responses. 9 of those are me bumping the thread up. :wtf:

[purpleskunk777]

Thanks Ga and canni. Appreciate it! Cross your fingers that the bag seeds are female indicas

Also Canni- I know, but the squeaky wheel gets the oil; am i right?

[GaGrown]

My Grand daddy Purple is a pure indica, however the leaf structure is very sativa.

White Widow is a sativa dom (60-70%), however my seed grown girl has fairly fat leaves very similar to my Blueberry (indica dom 80%)

Is there a way to tell how long the flower will be on bag seed? No, not really.

Even tho I keep my room clean and free of males and hermies, I do have a male in flower in a separate area. A single grain of pollen on my shirt from that WW male could get on my Vanniluna Female and create a cross that might exhibit completely different growth/flowering characteristics.


Point is, if you don't know the strain the seed came from, and don't know the source of the pollen, you cant really judge flowering time based on the shape of the leaves.

Hey Canna,

I see that all my Big Bud plants have different leaf structure,yet have the same flowering time. Soo... I guess it would be easy for someone to be fooled.

[purpleskunk777]

Interesting GA. Were all these plants grown under the same conditions/soil too?

I wonder what drives these phenotypes. Perhaps light intensity and/or spectrum?

[GaGrown]

Interesting GA. Were all these plants grown under the same conditions/soil too?

I wonder what drives these phenotypes. Perhaps light intensity and/or spectrum?

If I had to guess.. I would say that it had to do with coming from different mothers and not so much light intensity. That came into play when I started to flower. I had a 1000 watt MH with the ballast turned as low as it would go during veg. Then swapped lamps to HPS and turned the ballast to 100%.. These are all the same strain. Same soil. Nutes too.. You just made me take a closer look at why? Other than different mama's.

[WashougalWonder]

That is way too complex for me to describe, you may look at some writings on the topic by a dude with pen name Greg Green.

Rusty Trichome is pretty good at genetics and OM is super smart too. They are not your only local experts.

But from what I understand a given set of parents will put out a given set of phenotypes. Through breeding programs this can be concentrated to get plants that are consistent in providing that specific phenotype.

For example, I crossed a pair, one strong sativa, just showing indica leaves, the other a stable cross and that phenotype showed mostly sativa traits with indica height. That developed 5 distinct phenotypes. I gave up at that point as I don't have room to perpetuate the whole event and stay within the law.

So, when I want a given phenotype from the seeds I have of that cross, I germinate several and only keep the phenotype of the one I prefer and toss the rest of the seedlings.