preflowering in 18/6

weRideVRods

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hello everyone, so I finally just went ahead and did the responsible thing... made a profile lol. so here is the situation I currently have 4 feminized plants, 2 are clones from a reliable source and they are Wonka bars and the other 2 are both mother plants germed from seed bought from Nirvana seeds and they are Zittles feminized. So we were using some "full spectrum " super purple type LEDs and after a month or rather 3 weeks I felt something was up as far as growth rates so we went ahead and bought a ViparSpectra p4000 and that was a week ago. I started the light at 40% the first day, the second 50% and day 3-5@75% and since then I have kept it at 85% the foot print is 5x5 the growth rates of all plants since introducing the new light has been insane, but I noticed yesterday on the 2 mothers what was clearly pistles forming on a few of the typical preflower sites then I noticed it on the Wonka bars too! my set up is in soil and nute supplemented when needed and consists of a 4x9x6.5 tent, the above mentioned light, a 7,000btu remotely operable a/c that is in said tent that controls humidity and temp that is set at 75-76deg. and a 690cfm air pump that pumps in non scrubbed but cloth filtered air in every 30 min for 30 min and everything is generator backed up in case of power failure and all of this is in a large work shed. so my goal was to keep these ladies in a perpetual type veg, clone then flower the clones and continue that process until degradation is apparent. my long winded question is this should I continue with my plan and keep them in 18/6 or should I restart everything from feminized seed so as I may continue with above mentioned cloning plan. I have included a pic of one of the sites with preflowering hairs on the zittles, any tried and true advice would be great as I have not had this happen before.
 

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weRideVRods

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the zittles are about a month and a half old from seed and the clones Wonka bars were cut from a mature mother who was definitely mature, I've heard of ppl bumping up their lights to 20/4 but I rather not do that if not completely necessary. My uncle swears to just let it ride and that they should be fine and that they are just showing they would like to dance lol.
 

JimmyJackCorn

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My clone came from a mature female and has been showing "crotch pistils" all along. You should be fine.

Ones from seed sometimes show sex before flowering. The original plant did that before I took the clone.

It's nice when plants do that for us so we don't have to flower a cutting to find out.
 

Rsawr

Weed Gremlin
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what's waiting in flower? are you saying that you think they will all herm?
Just focus on keeping them happy and healthy. If you have solid genetics you should be okay! But no way to know until you flip, in the end.
 

weRideVRods

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harm? I would like to keep these in veg and just clone away. The zittles are feminized seeds and am hesitant on cloning them but I've got a buddy who has a pretty much 100% success rate on cloning from feminized seed so I'm like what the hell, im not a new grower but it's been about 8 years since I last grew and I was t-5's and h.p and im loving l.e.d's I would just like to put these thoughts of hermies to rest lol
 

Rsawr

Weed Gremlin
Staff member
Until you get through the entire life cycle of at least one of the clones there is no way of knowing if it will herm for sure.

You are fine to clone from feminized plants, lots of folks do. Just go with your plan, it sounds reasonable to me!
 

weRideVRods

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I will keep everyone posted, i will also upload and take pics of new and ongoing issues and achievements. I would like to say thank you to everyone for the info and words of assurance, I'm thinking I'll be able to pull clones in one one week and I'm going to put them in 12/12 as soon as they are rooted and start my true observation...I also added 2 feminized green poison into the mix they are on day 3 from sprouting which I will be cloning and doing an outside scrog setup for this summer here in Az
 
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