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Sexing your plants!
Alright, so you're growing from seeds, and you want to chop the males, or at least isolate them so their pollen doesn't fertilize your female plants,
making them produce a lot of seeds, ruining your hard work of growing nice sinsemilla (seedless bud).
Or...
You might be, however, wanting to raise a male for breeding. This can be done by moving your plant to another area to mature,
or you can put a plastic bag over the plant with some small holes to provide enough air for transpiration and something to absorb the moisture created by transpiration.
Moving the plant is probably the best idea, as unwanted pollen in the female grow room can be a nuisance,
or, if you have multiple males, you can select ones that display appealing phenotypes (characteristics).
Certain plants may be pollinated by isolating only certain females, or only certain branches.
This helps cause only the breeding you want and also limits seed production so that there is still sinsemilla produced.
One plant could produce hundreds of seeds.
Pollen can be released by using an artist's paint brush to touch the pollen on the pistils of the female plant.
Doing this with limited to no air movement works best to help make sure the pollen fertilizes the pistis and doesn't collect on yourself,
so that pollen doesn't follow you back to the female grow room and cause unwanted pollination.
Separated females that have been pollinated should remain out of the main grow room for a few days,
and be blown well to remove any extra pollen not collected by the female during pollination.
When your male flowers are mature, you may collect the pollen.
Pollen must remain completely dry in order to be viable.
After drying the collected pollen for a few days, store them in a cool, dark, dry place for months, or even years.
A great idea is to make an envelope of wax paper, and store the dried pollen inside with rice, or some other dessicant, in the freezer.
How to Sex Plants?!
With either situation, determining the sex of cannabis is done by identifying the males or females by their reproductive parts.
Males have pollen sacs, and females have pistils.
Preflowers begin to develop when the plant becomes sexually mature (a good sign of this is when the plant begins producing alternate nodes),
which usually happens around four to six weeks of vegetative growth.
You don't need to be in a hurry to chop your male plants if you are unsure of their sex and don't plan on keeping them for breeding; pollen sacs before maturity are just filled with water and won't ruin your grow.
It's better to wait to be absolutely sure that the plant is a male than to get rid of it at the first possible sign of male reproductive parts -
wait to see a few of the male preflowers bunched together on the internodes or at the growing tip of the top of the plant.
It is also possible that a plant will become a hermaphrodite.
This is when the plant produces both male and female reproductive parts, usually as a response to stress.
Certain strains may be more prone to hermaphrodite than others under the same growing conditions, and feminized seeds may be more likely to go hermie as well.
One common thing that might stress the plant into going hermie is being exposed to light during the dark period of flowering, for instance.
Hermaphrodites will pollinate itself and other females, ruining sinsemilla and producing seeds that are likely of no use for breeding.
Alternating Nodes
Male And Female Preflowers
Male And Female Flowers
Hermaphrodite
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Topping a Plant
1. Locate the very top of your plant and cut through the main stem just below the newest growth. (This should be done after the 3rd or 4th leaf set but can be done at any time after the 3rd leaf set)
2. Plant with top cut off, this is where the 2 new Branches that will form a "Y" on the main stem.
3. Newly topped plant after 2 days of growth, notice the Y Forming on the main stem.
Fimming a Plant!
Fimming is exactly like topping, accept your leaving part of the new growth.
taking off only part of the new growth by topping the most recent growth.
What this end up doing is, making 4 new tops right next to eachother
its actually 2 at the very top (like topping) since it was cut closely to the next newest set of fanleaves
the 2 branches which would have formed there will turn to 2 new tops.
1. Locate the very top of the new growth
2. With a clean sterilized scissors, Fold the fan leafs over and cut approximately 80% of the new growth off the plant.
3. View from the top showing the Cut
4. View of the Cut section after 2 days growth, showing the 4 new growth shoots (branches)
Enjoy Topping and Fimming of your plants.
SOG
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There it is, my Coil is complete
now all is left it to put this in a 12 inche'r duct
plug on side of the coil inline to the chiller as part of its exit cycle,
other side of the coil drops the actual end of the cycle into the res
chiller pulls up for re chilling from the res,
that's the plan,
now all is left it to put this in a 12 inche'r duct
plug on side of the coil inline to the chiller as part of its exit cycle,
other side of the coil drops the actual end of the cycle into the res
chiller pulls up for re chilling from the res,
that's the plan,
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