So I've grown a handful of regular seeds out and would like to know what would be the simplest way of determining the sex of the plants without putting the entire plant into flower. I read that putting clones in water under 12/12 would work but my plants don't seem to stay alive for more than a week in that condition and that wasn't enough time to determine sex. Do I need to just do a regular cloning in a medium and then go right to flower?
The method I have been using the past 6-8 months may not be fastest method, but has been working great for me. I take clones of each but use a aero cloned to get some roots, then I’ll put 8-10 X 3 inch rooted clones (the best from each “mother” plant) into a small 3 gallon (approx) rectangle tote... make sure you know the placement of each, then after giving them a day or 2 to get roots moving, I’ll flip to bloom and can sex every one within 2 weeks or so..
I use coco but this could be done with dirt or in DWC likely just as easily... after I sex them, I kill the clones and the males and have just my females left to clone out and switch and by this point they are usually a good size to transplant to the final container...
From seeds, I can usually take 2-4 clones of each within about 2.5 weeks, tho it varies a
bit, about 10-14 days to root, 2 days after transplant to single container, 10-14 day to sex... so usually I have my females separated ready take clones from and/or switch to bloom about 45-50 days from seed. At this point, the females are usually ready to be transplanted from their 1-3 gallon pots, into their final 5-7 gallon pots which they finish in, or larger to hang onto for mass cloning.
May not be the fastest way, but it works well for me. And since I am not a fan of monster cropping as it just takes a bit too much space and time to revert for my style, it works well and leaves me with my nice healthy, usually still symmetrically growing(seeds) females/mothers
Hope all goes well!! Happy growing
