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Dr. Greenhorn

Dr. Greenhorn

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kkday said:
greenhorn a next time i can give you one lift no need rent car if you make it out.
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much mahalos kkday!!I going do my starters the way you did yours....your plants were nice, full, and tight!!good way to get a jump on them before you plant outside....couldn't believe floros could do that much!!:peace::joint:
 
Dr. Greenhorn

Dr. Greenhorn

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howzit random....did you put your lights to use yet?!I got my clone station and seedling station set up with some floros:)I got a new project that I'm so stoked on starting this long season..should be awesome if all goes well....*crossing fingers*:)
 
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RandomKindness

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luckily i run 400w lights too!!

imma have to pick up another reflector/ballast but might end up just getting 600w's from now on



this rack is what i use for seeds/clones/moms/early veg, this is what it looked like when i first set her up, now every rack is in use someway or another

glad to hear you got the station goin, for me when i started early veg indoors is when i started having alot less problems with weak plants that are not ready for the hawaiian sun!

hope to have you come over here again, or maybe some of us can take a trip to your island, its the oldest island too so im sure it has a buncha sweet spots !

we all will be sharing genetics very soon... been talking with a few other folks and we would like to start sharing freely
 
Dr. Greenhorn

Dr. Greenhorn

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when you got the strawberry cough+deep chunk clones going, let me know!!!looking at your station just gave me some sweet ideas!!!and yes......we gotta have the 4/20 cookout over here one year........or we could hold an "overgrow the countryside" workshop here in the fine and lush mountains and valleys of Kauai!!LOL:)
 
grassified

grassified

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hahah Im a dare graduate, man I remember back then I used ot think weed was evil and bad for you. Just goes to show you cant keep the truth from the public, well some of them atleast.
 
kkday

kkday

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Ok took 4 clones today from 1 plant and 2 from another, both from the same strane. The doners will go in the mountain tomorrow I'm going to Whate untill these clones root then put one of each into flowering and see if there mothers or fathers. And kill the male clones and doner in the hills hopefully all 2 are ladies but I think there males cuz there kinda growing faster then the others but will see.

Random my question to you is when plants sex during veg is it the obvios hairs and balls or is it somthing else I look for? And will it show sex in 24 hour light?

Every time I grow it showed sex and continued to bud it always gets a cuple feet taller during this process (root space allowing)
 
Dr. Greenhorn

Dr. Greenhorn

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I think I can answer this kk....yeah you'll see pr-sex and its pretty obvious..gotta wait till its mature though...mid season maybe....but yeah during long season it will pre-sex as compared to short season where it goes straight to flower....you log on late yeah?:)
 
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RandomKindness

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The time taken to form primordia varies with the length of the inductive photoperiod. Given 10 hours per day of light a strain may only take 10 days to flower, whereas if given 16 hours per day it may take up to 90 days. Inductive photoperiods of less than 8 hours per day do not seem to accelerate primordia formation. Dark (night) cycles must be uninterrupted to induce flowering.
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The first sign of flowering in Cannabis is the appearance of undifferentiated flower primordia along the main stem at the nodes (intersections) of the petiole, behind the stipule (leaf spur). In the prefloral phase, the sexes of Cannabis are indistinguishable except for general trends in shape.
When the primordia first appear they are undifferentiated sexually, but soon the males can be identified by their curved claw shape, soon followed by the differentiation of round pointed flower buds having five radial segments. The females are recognized by the enlargement of a symmetrical tubular calyx (floral sheath). They are easier to recognize at a young age than male primordia. The first female calyxes tend to lack paired pistils (pollen-catching appendages) though initial male flowers often mature and shed viable pollen. In some individuals, especially hybrids, small non-flowering limbs will form at the nodes and are often confused with male primordia.
Cultivators wait until actual flowers form to positively determine the sex of Cannabis
The female plants tend to be shorter and have more branches than the male. Female plants are leafy to the top with many leaves surrounding the flowers, while male plants have fewer leaves near the top with few if any leaves along the extended flowering limbs.
*The term pistil has developed a special meaning with respect to Cannabis which differs slightly from the precise botanical definition. This has come about mainly from the large number of cultivators who have casual knowledge of plant anatomy but an intense interest in the reproduction of Cannabis. The precise definition of pistil refers to the combination of ovary, style and stigma. In the more informal usage, pistil refers to the fused style and stigma. The informal sense is used throughout the book since it has become common practice among Cannabis cultivators.
The female flowers appear as two long white, yellow, or pink pistils protruding from the fold of a very thin membranous calyx. The calyx is covered with resin exuding glandular trichomes (hairs). Pistillate flowers are borne in pairs at the nodes one on each side of the petiole behind the stipule of bracts (reduced leaves) which conceal the flowers. The calyx measures 2 to 6 millimeters in length and is closely applied to, and completely contains, the ovary.
In male flowers, five petals (approximately 5 millimeters, or 3/16 inch, long) make up the calyx and may be yellow, white, or green in color. They hang down, and five stamens (approximately 5 millimeters long) emerge, consisting of slender anthers (pollen sacs), splitting upwards from the tip and suspended on thin filaments. The exterior surface of the staminate calyx is covered with non-glandular trichomes. The pollen grains are nearly spherical slightly yellow, and 25 to 30 microns (p) in diameter. The surface is smooth and exhibits 2 to 4 germ pores.
Before the start of flowering, the phyllotaxy (leaf arrangement) reverses and the number of leaflets per leaf decreases until a small single leaflet appears below each pair of calyxes. The phyllotaxy also changes from decussate (opposite) to alternate (staggered) and usually remains alternate throughout the floral stages regardless of sexual type.
The differences in flowering patterns of male and female plants are expressed in many ways. Soon after dehiscence (pollen shedding) the staminate plant dies, while the pistillate plant may mature up to five months after viable flowers are formed if little or no fertilization occurs. Compared with pistillate plants, staminate plants show a more rapid increase in height and a more rapid decrease in leaf size to the bracts which accompany the flowers. Staminate plants tend to flower up to one month earlier than pistillate plants; however, pistillate plants often differentiate primordia one to two weeks before staminate plants.
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"Marijuana Botany" quote time :D
 
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RandomKindness

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Dr. Greenhorn said:
I think I can answer this kk....yeah you'll see pr-sex and its pretty obvious..gotta wait till its mature though...mid season maybe....but yeah during long season it will pre-sex as compared to short season where it goes straight to flower....you log on late yeah?:)
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yups! you will have like 1-2 weeks to pull the males before they jizz so i really dont worry about it too much anymore :spew:
 
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