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Nice work! How do you manage pests?
Nice work! How do you manage pests?
I'm in northern Virginia a few hundred miles south of you. My photo period fems outside start showing pistils in late July and really get going mid-August. Male parts might appear a little earlier so I'd be out there with an inquisitive nature mid-July looking for rowdy fellas to accost and wrap in garbage bag sized condoms, if I weren't sure of their pronouns beforehand. So I'm thinking you want to be sure who's who my August 1st, and everything should be apparent by then.At what point should I be concerned about having a male around? Do I have awhile to go? I don't want to be a bugaboo or worrying for no reason.
Sorry, my bad. There is an assumption that the male plants will need to be disposed of, which is what I was referring to. Cutting them down and stuffing them into plastic garbage bags so no pollen leaks out. Pollen, if available nearby would fertilize the female flowers and end the possibility of producing sinsemilla. My first grow I sowed 4 bag seeds. 8-1/2 weeks later I found out that 3 of them were male and so I destroyed those 3 and harvested seedless flowers from the one female plant. It was pretty good smoke but I was hoping for more when I started. You get what you get when you plant unknowns. That's why feminized seeds are so popular. Male plants have no THC and are fairly useless unless you want to pollinate females.I will need to look more into what to do if I do suspect a male. Other than separating, I really don't know what to do. Wouldn't they get really hot wrapped up or do you mean if they are being culled?
I started mine, seeds in the ground 5-5. They should be ready for harvest say late September to mid-October depending on how they do and the weather. It doesn't matter too much when you start them outside. I mean if you start them earlier there is the potential for them to grow bigger of course, but the timing of the shorting day will dictate when they flower and mature. On August 1st the daylight in our latitude will reduce below 14 hours which will signal photo period cannabis plants to get busy and start to produce flowers and the best harvest time will depend on the strain and the conditions.Again, thank you for the heads up on a timeline. Gives me a time frame. How old are your plants when they go out? I was fairly late starting these. They sprouted on 5/1. They are 2 months now.
Prop that little one up and in a few weeks you'll never know it happenedMan down. I thought I killed this seedling a few days ago. Qhwn putting it under the light, I snapped the stem. When I checked in the am, it was standing up. It stormed where I am and the seedlings were exposed to the elements.
I will leave it alone, but I'd say the stem has been compromised, even if it stands again. May use this one for the juglone experiment, if it survives, but struggles with a weak stem.
Prop that little one up and in a few weeks you'll never know it happened![]()
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Thank you very much.Your pictures may need some magnification to really see. The calyx and the pollen sac are very similar, so until the pistils appear you need to be right up on them to see anything meaningful. You can look on all the nodes but look at the top one first. All the nodes will have stipules and growth tips so you need to focus your picture on that tiny little nub between them. This illustration shows the magnification that you want.
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This plant is feminized so no surprise here but the photos show a calyx before and after a pistil grows. I got these pics with my iphone using a macro lens from Alloclip. Check Amazon for different manufacturers for your phone. Steep discounts for lens for older model phones.
I've used the app Magnifier Plus. It's an app so if it doesn't work for you you can just delete it. Check the free apps before spending any $Thank you very much.
The jewelry loupe that I keep seeing referenced would work or do I need something else?
I have a macro clip, but when I used it someone said they weren't clear enough. I had an iPhone and now have a Samsung. Maybe it isn't compatible with this phone's camera. I'll do research.
Thanks again.