Hey MTGirl,
Nice work this has been an entertaining and informative thread...i'm also newbish to this whole thing...just a quick question, and sorry if i missed the answer in the prior 7 pages but did you do a 24 or 36hr dark period before going into 12/12? I'm in that phase now hoping to jumpstart flowering...just a curiosity
Be easy,
Dr.J
Whoops....I didn't. Was I supposed to? Hmmmm...I actually went straight from 24 hrs on to 12off/12on and am still doing that... This plant had some noob abuse. I kinda didn't pay much attention to her, as I heard that 30-50% of bag seeds end up being male anyway. I initially sprouted 4 seeds. Out of the 4 of them, 3 were eaten by my cat. She got potted in African Violet soil and didn't give her any more nutes until she was around 4 weeks old. She had stretched a lot by 6 weeks.
So, with the odds of her being a female were, or so I thought, totally against her. I don't know if maintaining a low humidity level had anything to do with it...but I remember reading a post about low humidity and the possibility for higher percentages of females emerging, when humidity is maintained at lower levels during veg. He had like 11 seeds and only 2 were male, I think and his humidity was kept at under 30%. I actually replied to the guys old thread...but haven't heard anything yet. Actually, haven't even checked if he has, gotta do that now.
Lots of good luck with your grow! Is it your first? How many do you have that you are trying to flower? Take pics...I wanna see!