need help with sexing.

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colinut03

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pretty much i don't see any balls or anything but inbetween the trunk and stems are more leaves or at least that's what's going on in plants 1 and 2
 
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cookin

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yeah that'll happen to all of them its between the stems of the new leaves and the original stem that you should start to look for ball or drop shaped things with hair
 
Twistyman

Twistyman

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Not showing yet from those pics......... male balls usually show in clusters...where female more often single pods...
 
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cookin

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the plants stretch when they aren't get much light, what type of light have you got and how many watts. oh yeah and stetching isn't good
 
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colinut03

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well for 8 weeks i kept light on 24 hours. i used those cfl's (spiral bulbs) but the temp was getting to hot and it was burning them. they were surrounded in aluminum foil. now i have 150 watt lights and three of them. they are about 6 inches now from the tops where as they were like 2 feet
 
Twistyman

Twistyman

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Vegging with 2 X 26W CFL's on a Y splitter works well... placing plants between bulbs in the Y helps avoid stretching....
 
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colinut03

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my bad it says its a "plant gro n sho" 120 watts. it's one of the blue bulbs. they look like big spot lights
 
Kingb420

Kingb420

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cfls best light output is the sides, not tip, i seriously have the cfls so close you can only put two fingers between the lights and top, real thick plans not tall and skinny
 
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colinut03

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see i heard switch to a stronger wattage since they're bigger. so i went from a 40 watt cfl to a 120 blue light
 
GlassFreak

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Kingb420 said:
cfls best light output is the sides, not tip, i seriously have the cfls so close you can only put two fingers between the lights and top, real thick plans not tall and skinny
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i have heard from many people that have used light meters on cfls and say for spiral type much more light comes off the end of the bulb than the side, this is because the light from the inside of the spirals goes out of the tip too.

heres a picture of my 6 26w cfl light setup. its from when i first started investing in decent grow suplies, now i have a 400w mh/hps system so i dont really use them any more... i will for starting off clones or seedlings tho. usint only 2 of the 3 hoods you see there i got 3 plants veged out with less than half an inch between nodes, and i didnt even have the "right" spec. i was using 6500k lighting, worked fine but when i got the 2700k it really started to grow fast.
 

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GlassFreak

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you should be able to have those cfls like an inch or two away... unless they are real 150w cfl, then maybe 6 or so inches away. just as long as they dont toutch them.
 
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