dutchpassion84
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So, I did more research on sexing since I am over a week into flowering and had preflowers I wasn't quite sure about. I now have positive ID's on all six of my plants: 5 male and 1 female. Obviously, I am disappointed and was hoping for 2-4 females. Now my 'only child' is all by herself under a 400W HPS (vegetated w/ MH...switchable ballast). This is my first experimental grow with seeds from somewhat varying qualities of unknown strains (about half the seeds germinated were the same kind of very high quality and the rest should have all been at least fairly high quality but were simply the most useable seeds picked from a random batch of older seeds). I have been investing in this grow as I have gone along, and it has certainly all added up. I was also just about to install an inline fan and make my own carbon air scrubber. I guess I still will, but I certainly won't have as MUCH of an odor issue as I thought I would.
I will definitely be showering my attention on this girl, as she's my only hope. All I can say is that she better put out well. One question I have is about the two plants that I topped in the later part of vegetation. They both ended up male, and I guess their initial growth above the rest was probably just a result of their sex. However, I was also wondering if high-stress training like this could cause back-sexing. I'm just trying to understand how 5 of 6 plants could be male.
Also, does anyone have any suggestions of what to do with the males? Are they usable for cooking or anything like that if I let them continue for a while with a bit of fluorescent light in another room. I just hate for them to go to waste if there is anyway at all to make use of them, considering I've put so much into them.
BTW, I am positive on the sexing. The males all had small clusters of 2-5 pods at their tops, and I know females never have clusters. And the female is certain, thank goodness, as I spotted a few small pistils.
I will definitely be showering my attention on this girl, as she's my only hope. All I can say is that she better put out well. One question I have is about the two plants that I topped in the later part of vegetation. They both ended up male, and I guess their initial growth above the rest was probably just a result of their sex. However, I was also wondering if high-stress training like this could cause back-sexing. I'm just trying to understand how 5 of 6 plants could be male.
Also, does anyone have any suggestions of what to do with the males? Are they usable for cooking or anything like that if I let them continue for a while with a bit of fluorescent light in another room. I just hate for them to go to waste if there is anyway at all to make use of them, considering I've put so much into them.
BTW, I am positive on the sexing. The males all had small clusters of 2-5 pods at their tops, and I know females never have clusters. And the female is certain, thank goodness, as I spotted a few small pistils.