when should i bring this little plant in. shes got seeds and they are not developed yet. i was just going to wait untill they were ready to bring it in.then i would cut off all the buds and make a mother plant out of her.
louis
09-14-2007, 11:31 PM
Make a mother plant? I didn't think you could do that after it's been flowered.
stonedsmithy
09-15-2007, 09:01 AM
why would you want to make a mother plant from a plant that has seeds ,so its not a muma its a daddy an making this into a dady plant would be a waste of time wouldnt it an louis yes you can make a mother plant which is flowering a mum you just revert it back into veg
jjsunderground
09-15-2007, 11:21 PM
well i figured i cant be a male and since it has bud and seed it must be a female. so why couldnt i revert her back to veg and make a mother plant from her?
stonedsmithy
09-16-2007, 02:58 AM
sorry i lead you astray its not a male its a hermie or hermaphrodite (not sure if thats how ya spell it) but if you make this a mother all her offspring will be hermies to so i think its a waste of time ,you want a female to make a mother so you dont have seedie bud you dont wanna be growing an smoking hermies
jjsunderground
09-16-2007, 04:35 AM
oh thank you smithy. i appreciate your advise. i also heard incandescents have an unusable spectrum if this is true i may be out of luck.
stonedsmithy
09-16-2007, 07:13 AM
hey no worries mate an yeah go buy some cfls or hid lights if possible
Hick
09-16-2007, 01:46 PM
WHAT.."jj", you think "I" would pull your leg??
Why?..do you suppose you don't see any incandecents used anywhere in the journals?
...Because they don't work...
Rather than asking for "opinions"..research the answer for yourself..
a very simple "google" search will return pages of answers "if" you doubt.
Reading up on the lighting facts here, would educate you tremendously.
BASIC (http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1968)
More on lights.. (http://http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=231)
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq3410.html
All light is not the same as far as plants are concerned. In order to photosynthesize (i.e. make food), plants need light of the correct wavelengths. You can slam a plant with all the photons you want, but if they are of the wrong kind, the plant can't use them.
It would be like trying to feed grass to a lion, or clumps of mud to your little sister. (Except in the latter case, at least it would be fun.)
The kind of light that plants require is called "photosynthetically active radiation", or PAR. Sunlight is rich in PAR; if you are growing your plants under adequately bright sunlight, the quality of the light is fabulous.
If, however, you are using artificial lighting, you must indeed worry about the quality of the illumination from your light source.
The most valuable wavelengths are primarily in the short to midrange (blue through orange) parts of the visible spectrum. Lighting specialists claim that the orange and red portion of the spectrum enhances budding, flowering, and fruiting while the blue end of the spectrum encourages strong vegetative growth, but that might be information specific only to certain...crops (see the last paragraph below to decode what I mean).
Immediately rule out the idea of using incandescent lighting. Incandescent lights are the classic light bulbs of the kind that appears over the heads of cartoon characters when they get ideas. Incandescent lighting is useless for carnivorous plant horticulture because it contains a large amount of heat and very little PAR. (In other words, the spectrum from incandescent bulbs is weighted too much towards the infrared.) These bulbs will only cook your plants. Not good.
