Ya know that "third" plant I was holding in "reserve" in case one of the other two turned out to be a male? Well, last night I checked for flowers and (drum roll) of COURSE I found pollen pods on that "third" plant. I cut his testicles off last night right before I went to bed..... At ground level. SHIT! or should I say SNIP?

So that brings me down to two plants{again}... All I can do is HOPE that one that suddenly started growing - height wise - ends up proving me wrong and is a female.

Now understand, it's not the end of the world if all three turn out to be males. I have more soil, more nutes, and plenty of time to start over. I just hate finding out that I have wasted the time I have already invested by vegging males plants. Well, that IS why I grow the "extra" one.

I guess it's time to start learning about cloning. I can take what I have vegging - which actually isn't vegging anymore since - I took the lights in the veg room to 12/12 and start cloning one of them as soon as they prove to be female. Not that I'd actually GROW the clones... I'd just be doing it to learn the process and become half way proficient at it so I can clone the MK when those seeds arrive. I already top my plants to produce at LEAST 4 main stems, so stripping one of them to learn about cloning shouldn't be that big a deal. {Can you see I'm trying to talk myself into raping one of these females for clones?} All it will take is a 'little' patience to see which one of these, or should I say IF one of these are female.

Say Pushit - do you buy "standard" seeds or feminized seeds? If you're buying feminized seeds, what's your success rate on them actually proving to be female? I seem to be reading mixed reviews on feminized seeds. I bought "standard" on these MK - simply because I get 10 seeds instead of 5 for less money, and I'm not experienced enough to want to throw an extra $7 at something that I may very well kill anyway.

And how the hell do they determine the sex of seeds in the first place?

Oh well.... I saw a thread on cloning and how to make a "bubble cloner' somewhere in here. I guess I better go and start reading up on it.

And GaGrown: I think I gave up my rights a long time ago - or I never knew about them to begin with, cause no one has ever been supplying me with weed. I've always had to buy anything i wanted to smoke. I dunno about street prices where you are, but mid-grade mexican brown headache weed is going to $30 a quarter here now. And you'll be real lucky to actually see a full quarter. To think, I paid, $10 an OZ in Cal in the early 70's and $5 for a grocery bag in S.E. Asia, then $200 a key in Texas in the late 70's. Now headache brown is $120 an OZ??? Well, that doesn't surprise me 'that' much as when I left Ga in 69, a matchbox was a "dime bag" here - and of questionable quality.

It's amazing how much pricing fluctuates depending on where you are. I thought the prices I saw on TV from the dispensaries in Cal was out the box. But now, as I look at the cost of seeds, soil, nutes, and equipment to grow that medical grade stuff, I can why they're as high as they are.

Oh well, time to wake the wife. Be safe, stay stoned and I'll be watching my email all day <again>....:rasta: