Gordon said:
I am Germinating 6 seeds as I Type this.
Bingo; several at once and them sex them later. One at a time might take you a while to find your girl.
Gordon said:
Question: Once they " POP " and I plant them in my Soil ,.....is it 24/7
Light ( i'm using Flourescent ) from the very start?
Or should I be using 18 on 6 off , .....which I read somewhere
means less stress for the Plant later on when I go to 12/12...Any Tips?
You will find as many opinions as you can find growers on this subject. Like legal, I used to go 20 & 4, 18 & 6, etc.. and finally just went to 24 & 0. For me it was simple: If anything is significantly stressing my girls, it's gonna be observable in some way. If I can discern no negative impact between any one regimen or another, I will go with the one that produces observable positive impact.
I hear folks arguing the most arcane posits and theories regarding the growing arts and I must admit I find a lot of it kinduv silly and largely speculative. It's what happens in closed societies of enthusiastic hobbists though, and god bless 'em for it
. Be that as it may, however, I have yet to hear a coherent argument for allowing plants to "sleep," and have had zero observable or manifest problems. In my opinion the "sleep" argument is a total non sequitur.
Legalize freedom said:
yeah...well you are going to want to clean your grow area very thouroghly using hot water, with a couple caps full of bleach. Make sure you scrub everything down, to be posotive that you get all the pollen. You don't want that stuff hanging around to fertalize your fems when you do grow them
Agreed, agreed, agreed. One other thing you might consider, if you can get your hands on one, is a negative ion generator. They're great for keeping micro-particulates like pollen out of the air. The deal is that no matter how stringently you clean your now-contaminated grow space, you're
gonna miss some of it, period. It only takes a tiny amount of pollen to ruin your grow, and it can remain viable for a long time; as long as the inert exine layer, and tough, cellulose intine layer both remain uncompromised, the protoplasm inside will remain alive. The good news is that, short of you accidentally pollinating your girls with your own meathooks, pollen must become airborne in order to reach the female's stigma. Enter the negative ion generator. This will knock down any airborne particulates between 15 to approx. 100 microns, including pollen. The negative ion attaches itself to the more positive neutral pollen grain, giving it a negative charge. Now the negatively charged pollen grain will act as a magnet, attracting other more positively charged particulates to itself, quickly becoming too heavy to float in the air. This also helps to inhibit the "sticking" of the pollen grain to the stigma simply because it's got a bunch of crud stuck to it. I use one not because I have a contaminated grow space, but I happen to know that there's more than a few growers in my area who frequently start new strains and are therefore cultivating males in the process of finding females (like you
) and I don't want to chance their wayward pollens floating into my grow. A pollinating male can be a threat from miles away. So far so good.
~Snax (he Who Lurks)
