Light ???

BobCajun said:

I only grow fems anyway now

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me too. don't have the time or space to waste or the plant counts either.

rkymtnman said:

pretty sure seeds are genetically imprinted male or female. enviro does nothing to change that.

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Totally not true, just as with us humans all babies start out female and deciding to be male happens later

Shirley Mitchell said:

In desperate need of advice... my other half composts , tables scraps, coffee grounds all that stuff , then he puts in grass clippings. Oh ok buddy, now I have more weeds in my flower beds than ever. Please tell me what I add or do

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personally I wouldn't do anything at all, theres plenty of soil in there for all, besides grass tends to attract the correct types of bacterial microbes that cannabis likes.
past that the only option is to induce another thermophilic stage of the compost to "cook" the seeds.
but I wouldn't sweat the grass at all, treat it like a companion crop
in my experience the "usual" sprouts I get are from the tomatoes I throw in the compost, or maybe the seeded bread ends or what not, either way I wouldn't think twice about just leavin them there.
they won't hurt a thing

RM3 said:

Totally not true, just as with us humans all babies start out female and deciding to be male happens later

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This is not correct.

The chromosomes are present at conception. The male/female parts just don't develop right away.

MichiganMedGrower said:

This is not correct.

The chromosomes are present at conception. The male/female parts just don't develop right away.

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Ding, ding, ding! we have a winner

In china, they can have only one child. Use warm water to make sure they're all males.

MichiganMedGrower said:

This is not correct.

The chromosomes are present at conception. The male/female parts just don't develop right away.

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You really are a stupid bitch

"Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4470128

RM3 said:

You really are a stupid bitch

"Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4470128

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That is a 1974 article written by a sex marital therapist.

There is more info on orgasms in that short article. And no reference to any actual research or even a geneticist.

I can't believe you even found this outdated needle in the haystack. Try again.

RM3 said:

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Says some call it gender neutral right in the beginning and then goes on to explain what I said in the first place to you.

The chromosomes are present at conception.

ttystikk said:

You definitely need some airflow.

Also, 5W doesn't deliver enough intensity to make the dark cycles necessary or worthwhile. That's more for high power veg situations.

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I've seen benefits of running 6/2 with my t5.

I've also noticed environmental effect on the sex of cannabis plants.

There is literature out there that supports it.

If environment can make one hermaphrodite then why is it not plausible for it to effect the male female ratio?

You can argue the difference in true herms and stress ones but at the end of the day environment had something to do with it changing sex.

I won't go as far as the thing about birth control but blue light, cool temps and short days have shown more females for me.

whitebb2727 said:

but blue light, cool temps and short days have shown more females for me.

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my argument would be if enviro causes male/female, then in the proper enviro, there should be no males. which is impossible.

i think you get 10 regular seeds, those 10 are already male or female before germination.

i'm not sure though. hard to find any evidence just yet either way.

whitebb2727 said:

There is literature out there that supports it.

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i'd love to read it. gotta link?

whitebb2727 said:

I've also noticed environmental effect on the sex of cannabis plants.

There is literature out there that supports it.

If environment can make one hermaphrodite then why is it not plausible for it to effect the male female ratio?

You can argue the difference in true herms and stress ones but at the end of the day environment had something to do with it changing sex.

I won't go as far as the thing about birth control but blue light, cool temps and short days have shown more females for me.

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I'm not convinced that environment can make a plant herm -- unless the environment creates stress for the plant.
Right now our weather is in the shitter and my outdoor plants just started to bloom. We haven't had any rain since June so it's super dry. Also super hot -- which is rare. I know, I know, I'm a wuss. Anything over 90 sucks ass. Highs of 75 are expected this time of the year in the Northwest. (It's our tourist season.)

All I can do is keep em hydrated & lower the PPM...

They are stressing but hopefully won't herm.

whitebb2727 said:

I've seen benefits of running 6/2 with my t5.

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I really liked the results, myself.

rkymtnman said:

my argument would be if enviro causes male/female, then in the proper enviro, there should be no males. which is impossible.

i think you get 10 regular seeds, those 10 are already male or female before germination.

i'm not sure though. hard to find any evidence just yet either way.


i'd love to read it. gotta link?

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Chunky Stool said:

I'm not convinced that environment can make a plant herm -- unless the environment creates stress for the plant.
Right now our weather is in the shitter and my outdoor plants just started to bloom. We haven't had any rain since June so it's super dry. Also super hot -- which is rare. I know, I know, I'm a wuss. Anything over 90 sucks ass. Highs of 75 are expected this time of the year in the Northwest. (It's our tourist season.)

All I can do is keep em hydrated & lower the PPM...

They are stressing but hopefully won't herm.

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Ill dig for it. A lot of the studies and info I had were on a computer that crashed. Give me a day or two and ill find it.

RM3 said:

You really are a stupid bitch

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says the guy who grows with T5 and boils his roots.

churchhaze said:

says the guy who grows with T5 and boils his roots.

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Lol. But the bro science behind it all........

thanks for the info on the light sced..
i had a feeling the male/female thing would bring problems...
my opinion is that enviroment determins gender as w alligator eggs,, but i could be wrong,, the thing is there is no way to prove the enviromental thing,, plant 100 seeds under the same enviroment a few times every time the ratio will be different,,,however i think more seeds are female than male as 1 male can pollinate a hundred females..over thousands of years i think the plant knows this so on a single plant most seeds would be female...once again it cant be proven either way,,so whatever each of us believe is true to ourselves.. just like if u grow verticle or sog, like gh nutes or advanced, doesnt matter as long as we grow and happy doing it whatever u like is best for u..argue,debate, ive found once a person believes somthing nobody can change their mind...

ive grown both feminized and reg seeds,, havnt had alot of feminized or regulars herm out..the guy in high times sais regular seeds are best for finding mothers...idk if this is true tho,, i think both have advantages and disadvantages,,reg's are better if u want males for breeding, feminized better if u dont want to wait to determin sex,,u pretty much know its female.....grow well and be well to all