Does a plant sexually mature from size or age???
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The Gram Reaper
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He had some good info, we should piss him off more often.
Dumbguyneedshelp
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Hahaha I always google first but get very vague answers so I post here and still get shit lol....my thought are if I have a question. I'm going to ask it. If some gets mad at a question on a forum... Don't answer it
Deadhead13
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My thoughts too.
Budzbuddha
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Grass on the field ... Play Ball ....... As they say 
The Gram Reaper
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Using google is like going down a rabbit hole some times lol.
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ttystikk
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Ignorance is bliss...
Dumbguyneedshelp
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You got mad that someone asked a question on a forum that's designed for asking questions. You took time out of your day to flip out on a "newb" just tryijg to learn a few things..and for you to sit here and chastise people... You're being a real piece of shit if I have to be completely honest. You must be one of those old guys just pissed off at the world... ...this is supposed to be a peacedul community and here you are shitting up my thread. So yourself a favor and quit being such a douche bag. Ignorance is bliss.. But who's really being ignorant... There. We can both rant
Blue back
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"Does a plant sexually mature from size or age?"
Neither. In a photoperiod sensitive strain of cannabis, sexual identity is in the genes of the individual plant but aren't expressed until the light period changes in a very specific way; when uninterrupted darkness extends beyond a minimum of 10.5 hours.
A specific 'timer' hormone is produced in the plant when darkness falls. The level of this hormone builds up in a linear relationship with the length of darkness. Once the level of this hormone exceeds a certain threshold due to length of uninterrupted darkness, the plant begins the process of sexual maturation, switching from vegetative growth to blooming growth.
It makes little difference how big or how old the plant is; I've seen fully formed and finished plants weighing one gram. A crying shame, to be sure! On the other hand, I've seen moms in veg that were several years old and had grown to be several feet tall in spite of many rounds of cuttings being taken from them.
What's important is the length of uninterrupted darkness; the reason growers use 12 hours is because the signal is unmistakable. In the wild, the plant needs to be well along in its bloom cycle by September 21st, or it may well be killed by frost before its seeds mature.
Y'all may have heard of 'gaslight' or 'gas lantern' timing, where a light is turned on in the middle of the night cycle. This is done to reset the production of that timer hormone and keep the plant from blooming in a greenhouse setting in the winter months. Interrupting the dark cycle and hormone buildup is how it works.
Yes, larger plants often do show signs of sex before encountering the appropriate length of darkness- but that isn't the same as sexual maturity.
I tried to explain it the exact same way way back on the first page. But got hit with they show sex from age. True some strains will show sex from age but I thought the question was sexual maturity oh wait it was.lol Either way the OP got knowledge about way more than the actual question asked.
Neither. In a photoperiod sensitive strain of cannabis, sexual identity is in the genes of the individual plant but aren't expressed until the light period changes in a very specific way; when uninterrupted darkness extends beyond a minimum of 10.5 hours.
A specific 'timer' hormone is produced in the plant when darkness falls. The level of this hormone builds up in a linear relationship with the length of darkness. Once the level of this hormone exceeds a certain threshold due to length of uninterrupted darkness, the plant begins the process of sexual maturation, switching from vegetative growth to blooming growth.
It makes little difference how big or how old the plant is; I've seen fully formed and finished plants weighing one gram. A crying shame, to be sure! On the other hand, I've seen moms in veg that were several years old and had grown to be several feet tall in spite of many rounds of cuttings being taken from them.
What's important is the length of uninterrupted darkness; the reason growers use 12 hours is because the signal is unmistakable. In the wild, the plant needs to be well along in its bloom cycle by September 21st, or it may well be killed by frost before its seeds mature.
Y'all may have heard of 'gaslight' or 'gas lantern' timing, where a light is turned on in the middle of the night cycle. This is done to reset the production of that timer hormone and keep the plant from blooming in a greenhouse setting in the winter months. Interrupting the dark cycle and hormone buildup is how it works.
Yes, larger plants often do show signs of sex before encountering the appropriate length of darkness- but that isn't the same as sexual maturity.
I tried to explain it the exact same way way back on the first page. But got hit with they show sex from age. True some strains will show sex from age but I thought the question was sexual maturity oh wait it was.lol Either way the OP got knowledge about way more than the actual question asked.
Go go n chill
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That’s how you help man, nice going. BUT occasionally members do need some tuff love.... ie.... when they ask a question but already seem to know all the answers but their plants still look like shit. But good going bro
ttystikk
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Nah, you totally missed the whole point if that's all you got.
There's an enormous amount of bullshit shoveled onto newbies here by people who don't take the time to read authoritative sources and find the answers.
There's not one single damned thing about growing weed that's new. Period. Full stop. It's been done- very well- by millions of people for over ten thousand years and counting. So why the fuck is everyone working so hard to reinvent the wheel?
Lighting is new. Legal issues are new. But growing the plant? That's not new at all.
Dumbguyneedshelp
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Curve ball. One plant has....id guess calcium problems???
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ttystikk
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It would be better to see the whole plant but calcium deficiency is a good first guess.
Since calcium is an immobile nutrient you'll have to make the correction and then watch the new growth to see the results.
Dumbguyneedshelp
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I ordered calmag just waiting for it to show up this week.
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Budzbuddha
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Surprised nobody made this into a wall poster .... perfect noob gift
Dumbguyneedshelp
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Using 10-5-15 dry amendment top,dress fert.
Ya out of 4 all getting the same,regiment. Only this 1 plant showed this deficiency.
Dumbguyneedshelp
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Next run I will be using a base grow nute for veg and bloom for flowering. Instead of winging it with random stuff like this run.
Dumbguyneedshelp
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Is that a hair I see?
