Hey everybody. Im new to growing bud in general, but a friend of mine gave me a pot with reggie seedlings. They sprouted but they're all together. Im going to try and put a pic of it tomorrow. My plan is to obviously keep it outdoors. But i dont even know if they'll survive because they're all growing in the same pot! Hoping y'all weed gurus can tell me what i can do, if there's anything i can.
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JoeBlow5823
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yup males have to DIE
JoeBlow5823
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I think you fucked yourself. Those look pretty bad as it is. I dont think they would survive being separated but stranger things have happened.
JoeBlow5823
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U got drainage holes in that pot? they look like they are drowning.
GlassJoe
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Just transplant the whole deal into another pot/bed/the ground. You've got 4 plants so if they live there's a 93.75% chance at least one is a female if they all live. You have to be very diligent about looking for male pollen sacs.
JoeBlow5823
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75% chance one is female. I just planted 3 reggies that were all male.
GlassJoe
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0.5 chance the first one is male * 0.5 the second is also male * 0.5 the third is also male * 0.5 the fourth is also male = 0.0625 * 100%= 6.25% chance all four are male.
LOL I just cut down and composted six plants last night because I specifically want a male of the strain. All six female from seed. Planted another six seeds today, solely for a male.
Seems as though I only get male plants from reg seeds when I'm specifically not doing a seed run.
JoeBlow5823
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I planted one female just in case none of them turned out to be female. Even going 12/12 from seed, she is looking like she is going to be well worth the time.
JoeBlow5823
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Not that simple. There are probability equations that could better explain this than me. No matter how you look at it, If you planted 1,000 seeds, getting strings of 4 females or 4 males would happen frequently. You will even see strings of 5,6,7,8......
GlassJoe
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It's not about order, let me explain this in terms of permutations.
With two plants, there are four possible outcomes (where M is male and F is female):
1) MM
2) MF
3) FM
4) FF
Thus, in 1/4 outcomes you get two females, in 2/4 you get one male and one female, and in 1/4 you get two males.You have a 75% chance to get at least one female plant (FF, FM, MF).
With three plants, there are 2^3 = 8 possible outcomes:
1) MMM
2) MMF
3) MFM
4) MFF
5) FMF
6) FMM
7) FFM
8 ) FFF
Thus, in only 1 of 8 permutations do you get all male plants. You chance of getting at least one female plant is 7/8, or 87.5%.
With four plants, there are 2^4 = 16 possible outcomes:
1) MMMM
2) MMMF
3) MMFM
4) MMFF
5) MFMM
6) MFMF
7) MFFM
8 ) MFFF
9) FMMM
10) FMMF
11) FMFM
12) FMFF
13) FFMM
14) FFMF
15) FFFM
16) FFFF
Thus, only in 1 of 16 possible outcomes do you end up with all male plants. Your chance is getting at least one female plant is 15/16, or 93.75%
JoeBlow5823
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Your not factoring in all the outcomes like fffff or mmmmm or mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Its an equation.
GlassJoe
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https://math.stackexchange.com/a/428515 here is someone explaining, with coins, the probability of getting at least 1 heads when flipping "n" coins. With these unknown plants, n = 4.
You cannot have an outcome like FFFFF or MMMMMM with four plants.
You cannot have an outcome like FFFFF or MMMMMM with four plants.
JoeBlow5823
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No but choosing 4 seeds is relative to choosing from an infinite number of seeds.
GlassJoe
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Right, but it doesn't matter how many seeds you're choosing from, or the results of any prior seeds or successive seeds. Germinating n seeds is like flipping n coins, where heads represents one sex and tails represents the other. There's a reason you don't see that explanation talking about picking out a sequence of arbitrary length form an infinite number of coins. It doesn't matter, your chance of getting at least one heads (female) from n coins (plants), is 1-(1/2)^n.
Skunkcabbage
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The joe’s are going at it . Definitely going to have to agree with joe here. The glass one.