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[Krogith]

the way you said it was calling it a HIGTH factor NOT SIZE my auguement was just that a 3ft plant will not grow to 6ft-9ft TALL it may get like 4.5 FT and 3X size buddage not 6-9FT tall

[LIP]

I know i said hight, and for me, its high AND size. It's both, Admit you ARE WRONG. What is it with these kids....

And you still havnt told me how you came to the conclusion that i dont use fans, and that i "lied" about my males?

Looks like your the only lyer here.

[Bong30]

I used to go by.....veg grow for 8 weeks, flower for 8 weeks give or take depending on strain, did you start from clone or seed and was a clipping taken from that plant. :rasta:

[FLORIDA MON]

Krogith and lip... chill out... this is floridas post about sexing.. not about lips weird growing style................... rofl :dance:

That being said florida mon are you saying that when the plant is 6 inches tall you change the light cycle to 12/12 untill it shows signs of sex then you switch it back to a veg light cycle let it grow 1-2 feen then switch it back to 12/12 and then completly flower it?? :smokin:

Yeah, Sandman, instead of vegging the plant for until it is ready to actually flower for crop purposes.

If you have 10 plants like that in big containers (soil) you will have to toss about 4 of them into the trash.

That is allot if space displaced when you could have been using small containers in a much smaller area while existing flowering plants thrive on the extra space & light.

Downside is it does take about a week to effectively revert it back to vegging. This stunts growth as it is a shock to their system.

[Sinsemilla Jones]

Downside is it does take about a week to effectively revert it back to vegging. This stunts growth as it is a shock to their system.

Some plants/strains might tell you their sex, anyhow, under reg veg, in the same amount of time that it takes to stress it out with a sex/reveg routine.


And, of course, by cloning you can still keep an eye on sexual expression by the parent at the same time.
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Some strains, apparently, show sex in veg earlier than others. I don't know why breeders don't advertise that fact more often.
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[Zandor]

Krogith & lip both of you please STOP. Your actions are rude to Florida Mon Hijacking a thread is not cool.

FM to answer the question.

The clones are rooted under 24/0 to push them. You are not going to finish them so don't worry about stress at this point. It will take about 10 days for them to root then switch them right to 12/12 and you will know the sex in about another 7-10 days.

The original plants keep growing and you can clone in a closet or cabinet so room is not an issue for cloning for sex.

Your original plant should be around 35-45 days old when you know the sex.

Sexing by clone is the most efficient way to determine the sex from seed. Very little to no stress on the plant. When you sex the whole plant then reveg you are sending mixed signals to the plant and that is not good.

You can get hermies from stressing the plant, not saying it will but it sure can. As if the seed was from a hermie mother then the chance of that seed being hermie is increased. That little stress of sexing the whole plant could be enough to trigger the hermie trait in that plant.

[Sinsemilla Jones]

I agree with Zandor.

you can do either, but i supose sexing a seedling is better, cos then your not wasting time growing a big plant and then having to kill it.

You CAN wait, but 3 foot sounds a tad tall. They will finish at atleast double that size, so you gotta be sure theres enough room in the grow room.

lip you have no idea what his grow space is? Dude once he swiches to 12/12 there not going to dubble higth + thats stuiped. Claiming a 15-35% at most is more reasonable when budding your shits not shooting up 2X+ lip thats rediculas:smokin: so IMO 3ft will get 4ft at MAX during 12/12 it wont be 6ft + rofl

A plant may increase in height by less than a third or more than triple after going 12/12, depending on its strain, the growing method, the growing particulars, and how tall and healthy it is at the time.
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BTW, I think flaming people is stuiped.

[Krogith]

Pyromaniac =( :smokin: Everything must Burn! Sorry about that tho...