Quote Originally Posted by emilya
#4 was stressed from the very start. He was a J root when "dummy me" plopped him in the dirt upside down. :upsidedow[*]The second factor is that I am an inexperienced grower. Not only did I stress these plants from the very beginning, I kept terrorizing them throughout at least the first half of their lives. It is possible that I took a perfectly good little girl and scared her so badly that she switched sides. [/LIST]
More experimentation is needed.

Here are the pictures... please discuss. I am here to learn.
Emmie
Just one growers opinion, but I don't think anything you did actually caused it to be a male. Possibility I suppose that you could have influenced the outcome, but typically when people talk about stressing plants into becoming male it's on a plant that had already shown itself to be female.

Odds on this one are that it was a male from the very start. IMHO, looks to be a happy healthy male to me too. It doesn't look to me like you stressed it all that much.

In my experience putting seeds in dirt with taproot down is a wives tale. Maybe it causes them to emerge from soil a day later than they would have, or possibly may cause underground entanglement of roots or something crazy to that effect, but I have put plenty of seeds into dirt haphazardly and never had any issue with it. Thankfully MJ DNA recognizes gravity and automatically grows in the opposite direction for us:thumbsup:
irydyum Reviewed by irydyum on . Emmies Grow Log - White Widow Grow Log (pics coming when I get the ability to post them) 12/06 - Started germination 12/09 - 10 5/5 seeds germinated and transplanted to 6? pots. Light set to 24/0. Light is bare minimum at this point, 4? shop light with standard grow bulbs from hardware store. Ordered $500 of new lights online. 12/13 ?? got programmable thermostat and light timer today, now set to 77° day, 70° night. Also set light timer for 18/6 and added a fan to the closet to evenly distribute heat Rating: 5