Super short Plant and Flowering---Male :( ???

[jerbremser]

I think i have a male plant in my grow. This is my first grow and the plants were transplanted a week ago into the 5gal deeps that their in now. One of them decided to start flowering and i believe it is a male.
The plant is no taller than a shampoo bottle. Is this right for a first grow. I didn't use the correct light until a week ago as well. I now have a 250hps on them and this one plant took off and started but my other 2 are still in veg i believe.

 

[superbak3d]

Yea its a male

 

[smithdav]

Yes, it's a boy and wow are there a lot of pollen sacs on that small of a plant...Is he on steroids??

 

[thewinghunter]

ugly boy. yuch

 

[jerbremser]

Sorry no steroids. Im just using a nute in a white rectangle bottle that says Micro 4-0-0. I did leave them in their smaller containers though for a long time like 3 months. I thought that the plant needed to be taller before transplanting but i was wrong and it needed room to grow in order to become taller.
I dont know why it is so short and starting its flower process or whatever that process is called for males. I hope my other 2 still grow before flowering.

 

[bighomey]

3 months..lmao...if i Vegged a cloned it would look like that (without the balls) in 4 days ...lol

 

[dbyrd]

Its got balls strange that it is so short though

 

[darkdestruction420]

your correct, its a male. Did you flip the cycle to 12/12 or did it start flowering on its own?

 

[jerbremser]

It just started flowering on its own. I thought that whenever the plant was ready to flower it would. I didn't know that you can "MAKE" it start flowering.
Can you do that? How.

 

[darkdestruction420]

Are you inside or outside? a plant flowers based on the light cycle. their are 2 stages of growing, veg and flowering. You want and need long days(24/0,20/4, 18/6) for veg and short days for and to trigger flowering(12/12).

 

[jerbremser]

I am doing this inside. I dont really have a set time for my lights. I turn them off when i go to bed around 11pm and i turn them on when i wake up around 7am. I i guess i am giving them light for about 16 hours on a daily basis.

 

[lowrider2000]

yeah thats no good at all wut happens when you get hung over and dont wake up till 1pm? get a timer its like 8 bux set it to 18 on and 6 off .......... at least you got a male out consider it a blessing from the weed gods..........and why would you transplant them was it a space issue? why transplant if you can just start with a big pot and avoid the shock

 

[darkdestruction420]

yeah thats no good at all wut happens when you get hung over and dont wake up till 1pm? get a timer its like 8 bux set it to 18 on and 6 off .......... at least you got a male out consider it a blessing from the weed gods..........and why would you transplant them was it a space issue? why transplant if you can just start with a big pot and avoid the shock

Because its easier to water than a small plant in a big pot.

 

[lowrider2000]

why is that? not being sarcastic or anything............. its pritty easy to water my plants wont you have to water them more frequently

 

[darkdestruction420]

yes, but it works better for root system development to have the wet dry cycles like that instead of only watering once a week.

 

[lowrider2000]

cool i might just try that next grow.......... when should they come out of the cups?

 

[Bosson26]

id take it out the cup in 1 week

 

[darkdestruction420]

sometime between 1-2 weeks is normally when i transfer from the starting container to the next stage, 1 gallon containers, 4 weeks later i transplant to the final one 3 gallons. I've been thinking lately of working in another transplant into 5 gallon bags and see if it makes as much of a difference from when i went from using 1 gallon final pots to 3 gallon final pots.