sexing?

[mrabrego]

If you dont have a pot to piss in, then piss on your pot?

mrabrego Reviewed by mrabrego on 03-10-2006. sexing? Well im going to start sexing my plants so i can seperate the females and the males. And so i was wondering when i start the 12/12 will the plants still grow? or will they just stay at the same hight? and how long does it take for them to sex? Rating: 5

[SENSESFAIL]

Well i checked on my plants today and now my biggiest one, the leaves are almost the full 5 blade.

And so about puttin piss in my water. will that make my weed taste like piss?

[DoctorFeelGood]

Well i checked on my plants today and now my biggiest one, the leaves are almost the full 5 blade.

And so about puttin piss in my water. will that make my weed taste like piss?

No it wont you will flush your plants 2-3weeks before harvesting to flush out any ferts, chemicals etc.
The piss is for nitrogen which is good for female cannabis and remember 1 teaspoon per 1gal of water any more than that and you risk damaging or killing your plants from to much nitrogen.
How old are you and why is buying ferts out of the question?
DFG

[SENSESFAIL]

Im 17, and the reason is because no cash.

[karmaxul]

Got any cow farms around you?

One love
c

[SENSESFAIL]

yea, i do

[SENSESFAIL]

Hey im going out of town for a day, and there is no way for me to control the light and dark. so would it hurt to just leave the light on and then turn it off for 12 hours when i get back?

[karmaxul]

grab some shit. it is hot meaning a high ph but look for some old dry patties and make a tea. I would use one cup for 5 gallons but thats just a guess.

It will not kill them but the dark light should be regimated. Timers are cheap at the local pharmicy. 6 bucks or so. the worst thing that will happen is you may get stress seeds if you continue to flower.

one love
c

[SENSESFAIL]

Hey everyone. I tried the whole piss thing and my plants are growing faster and really healty. I hat to leave the light on for 24 hours. but tonight im going back to 12/12.

[jamstigator]

Plants will certainly show signs of sex before 12/12 - preflowering. I just culled a male and am certain another is female, out of eight plants. The other six have calyxes, but not developed enough for me to determine their sex with certainty yet. I probably will know them all, one way or another, this week, and when I have culled all the ales THEN I will go to 12/12. Or maybe I'll keep vegging a bit longer while I clone the best of each type and make sure the clones are good (White Rhino and AK-48).

Here are some not-totally-reliable ways to determine sex:

1) Taller plants are often males
2) Males usually display their sex first, so an early calyx, likely male
3) If the calyx has a stalk, probably male

If you see a calyx develop into multiple banana-bunch looking pods, that's definitely a male. (This will happen regardless of photoperiod, 12/12 not needed.) If the calyx spews out some white strands, that's definitely a female. Use a 30x jewelers' loupe or something to look for calyxes. You can get a cheap microscope from Radio Shack, or a 30x loupe from ebay (that's what I got, works great).

If you don't want to wait for the calyxes to develop naturally to the extent that sex becomes obvious, you can take a cutting, plop the stalk in water, and expose it to 12 hours of light followed by 12 hours of darkness and it should flower and display sex definitively. This won't work unless the plants are mature enough to display sex though, and sex isn't determined until around the 3rd week of vegetative growth.

Final note: you desperately need more light for those plants. I mean, badly. I'm not saying you won't get anything from those plants - most likely, you will. But you really need more light. The plants aren't stretching because the lights are too far away; they're stretching because they're desperate for more light, period. And yes, they will grow significantly during the flowering phase.