12/12 from sprout???

I actually managed to get lucky with 25 females out of the 50 plants I started. How did you get hermies? Was there light issues or something? Bet you were pissed. I would-of been and will be if mine turn on me. Good luck, and stay safe everyone.

-Dude

theratfords said:

I actually managed to get lucky with 25 females out of the 50 plants I started. How did you get hermies? Was there light issues or something? Bet you were pissed. I would-of been and will be if mine turn on me. Good luck, and stay safe everyone.

-Dude

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i beleive i got hermies due to heat stress. i had a hard time keeping room cool in middle of summer. yes was very pissed, lost about 3 days sleep over it. then decided that i still had time to complete the 2nd half of grow by recovering those neglected plants from outside. the reason i think heat stress is during the second grow early on in the 12/12 i still had heat issues for a short time. i had 1 early on go hermie and i was thinking not again. so instead of cutting it down i relocated it outside and transplanted in the ground and picked off all nanners and i didnt get anymore after that. what a learning experience this year. glad it was only bagseed.

again nothing but troubles, within 10 days after putting it outside i saw much difference in the plant. started getting real dense and sticky and smelled real nice. a month later weather started turning on me. had major storm for 2 days, very warm and humid days and cooler nights. everything wet in the morning. 1 of my top colas started getting bud rot due to it just wasnt able to get dry enough during the day. not full sun unfortunatly. clip that bad cola and trashed it, and inspected the rest of the plant looked good so i cut it down. cured real nice, and pretty good smoke.

will carryover this years knowledge and learn more here and will be better next year.

sorry for such a long post.

The two plants on the left in this pic were sprouted on my deck, after 5 days I repotted them, and started all three plants in the pic on 12/12 at the same. The one on the right was mature, you can see she only has a few weeks left till harvest. The other 2 did not show signs of sex for 30 days, then they started growing 4 inches a week, and continue to at an alarming pace. they both turned out to be females, and they are both in the beginning stages of flower.

Pic taken @ 40 days of 12/12, so the 2 on the left are 45 days old.

I also had this in a few. Nothing really wrong with them now, they just look like their only in early flower. I used bagseed for my experiment so I just figured some strains must not be able to reach sexual maturity that early. Maybe the flower hormones are increasing, hense the burst in growth; But not actually mature for 30 days or so.

I sprouted mine and immediately put them in the flower room at 12/12 under a 150,000 lumen 1000w hps. Still a few took, like yours, around 30 days just to show sex. They're fine now but I wonder if it affects yeild or not. Do you think the 30 days was actually flowering time and the plant just didn't grow buds? Like the plant wasted 30 days sorta. That would suck, but it was only the case in about 3 out of 25 of mine. Hopefully it's no biggie.

-Dude

OverD0se said:

By using just 12 h light for sprout,You just decrase the grow rate ... You can use 24/7 and after about 2 weeks change it to 12..It will give you much better result than starting with 12

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dude, using more than 24 hours is never reccomended. 18/6 or 20/4 is always best in my opinion. if he's trying to flower after sprout what good is the 24/7 for two weeks? might as well go with 18/6 for two weeks. .

waldocat420 said:

dude, using more than 24 hours is never reccomended. 18/6 or 20/4 is always best in my opinion. if he's trying to flower after sprout what good is the 24/7 for two weeks? might as well go with 18/6 for two weeks. .

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his 24/7 was really meant to be light on 24 hours a day 7 days a week or really 24/0

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his 24/7 was really meant to be light on 24 hours a day 7 days a week or really 24/0

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24/7, i feel like a fool! i cant belive i let that one get by me. . must be some good kush! either way. . i would still recommend 18/6, 20/4 vs. lights on all the time.

If i wanted to use the seed method. Couldent i just keep a male out of the ones i weed out. Put it in another room and grow it for the seeed. Do this till i have a stock pill and wait till needed again.

BubbaBlaze said:

If i wanted to use the seed method. Couldent i just keep a male out of the ones i weed out. Put it in another room and grow it for the seeed. Do this till i have a stock pill and wait till needed again.

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yes you can to a point. do some research on breeding. you just start making beans and at some point youll end up with batches of seeds without any thought into the genetics and a shitload of different phenos.

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yes you can to a point. do some research on breeding. you just start making beans and at some point youll end up with batches of seeds without any thought into the genetics and a shitload of different phenos.

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I appreciate the info. thanks bro

check it out bro that's how i did my first grow. i wouldn't recomend it to somebody who wants a big yield just because basically you grow dwarf plants they don't get enough light to grow big so they put all their energy into their leaves and stocks which kinda worked for me.