Regular seeds
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CallinCarRamRod
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There is NO way to tell, until you start flowering. Its a gamble. I always plant 2x the seeds.
If you want to know earlier, take a cutting/clone, And force the flower
If you want to know earlier, take a cutting/clone, And force the flower
You either pay to have them tested, or do like most, and play the waiting game until the plant tells you once they reach sexual maturity, or you start the flower cycle.
There is no "this is a female seed, this is a male seed" with regular seeds.
I play the 50/50 game when I plant regs, 2 seeds of each strain, sometimes I get 50/50, sometimes 2 females, sometimes 2 males, like I said, you have to play the game and let the plant tell you.
There is no "this is a female seed, this is a male seed" with regular seeds.
I play the 50/50 game when I plant regs, 2 seeds of each strain, sometimes I get 50/50, sometimes 2 females, sometimes 2 males, like I said, you have to play the game and let the plant tell you.
twentyeight.threefive
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There is no method to force a female out of regular seeds. That's why they are regular. If you want a guaranteed female grow feminized seeds.
jondamon
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Grow seed until you can clone it.
take clone and throw it in a 12/12 lighting schedule.
wait to see pistils or balls.
when sex is determined you know the donor plant was either male or female.
PopAndSonGrows
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I advise ponying up for test kits. It makes quick easy work of what's what, and you can figure out the females before week 3.
jondamon
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And how would one go about getting those kits in the U.K.?
PopAndSonGrows
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Email Farmer Freeman or check their site if they send kits international.
jondamon
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Don’t you have to send them back for them to run the tests?
xtsho
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If you don't want males then grow feminized seeds. If all you have is regular seeds then just grow them and pluck the males when they show which is usually sooner than the females. You'll have plenty of time to remove them before they drop pollen. Or just do the logical thing and keep a male to pollinate a female and make your own seeds so you don't have to keep buying them.
I wouldn't bother paying for a test. You might as well just spend the money on feminized seeds instead of paying for a test. That way you're assured of a female plant. All a test is going to do is tell you if it's male or female. What if you send in samples and they all test as male? You're out $20 a sample to find out. You could end up having all your samples testing male. Then you're back to square one.
I wouldn't bother paying for a test. You might as well just spend the money on feminized seeds instead of paying for a test. That way you're assured of a female plant. All a test is going to do is tell you if it's male or female. What if you send in samples and they all test as male? You're out $20 a sample to find out. You could end up having all your samples testing male. Then you're back to square one.
xtsho
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Yes. And international mail can be spendy unless you're sending a standard letter. Even a small package can cost a decent amount in postage.
jondamon
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Not to mention getting caught sending cannabis material through the mail system in the U.K. to international borders where you need to declare who sent what lol.
I will grow some mexican jalisco so i don t know if it s femenised
xtsho
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Well I hope you find some females. If the seeds are the real deal I would definitely want both male and female plants so you could make more. Did you get the seeds from TLT?
I like starting regular seeds in 3” pots, up-potting them into half gallons when they pop out of their container easily, around three- four weeks, then starting flower a day later. Typically a couple weeks in a half gallon in flower they show their sex (five-six weeks from germination). Selections are then transplanted into 2 or 3 gallon containers. The plants seem happy with this method, it is a way of avoiding over committing space and resources and time to plants that turn out to be male, but you can still take advantage of what regulars offer. I actually move a select male and keep it in the half gallon under a separate light, harvest the pollen and dust the lower branches of females in the 2-gals. The best female or two can be revegged, and larger plants grown next round. I like popping regular seeds. The space issue can be navigated by keeping the plants smaller and flowering earlier
Yeah i will buy from them
Fluffy Butt
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If you were growing a fair amount of regular seeds, a spectrometer wouldn't be a bad investment.
link.springer.com
"Our findings show that Raman spectroscopy enables differentiation between male and female plants with 90% and 94% accuracy on the level of young and mature plants, respectively. Such analysis is entirely non-invasive and non-destructive to plants and can be performed in seconds using a hand-held spectrometer."
Raman spectroscopy enables highly accurate differentiation between young male and female hemp plants - Planta
Main conclusion Hand-held Raman spectroscopy can be used for highly accurate differentiation between young male and female hemp plants. This differentiation is based on significantly different concentration of lutein in these plants. Abstract Last year, a global market of only industrial hemp...
link.springer.com
"Our findings show that Raman spectroscopy enables differentiation between male and female plants with 90% and 94% accuracy on the level of young and mature plants, respectively. Such analysis is entirely non-invasive and non-destructive to plants and can be performed in seconds using a hand-held spectrometer."
xtsho
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If you were growing a fair amount of regular seeds, a spectrometer wouldn't be a bad investment.
Raman spectroscopy enables highly accurate differentiation between young male and female hemp plants - Planta
Main conclusion Hand-held Raman spectroscopy can be used for highly accurate differentiation between young male and female hemp plants. This differentiation is based on significantly different concentration of lutein in these plants. Abstract Last year, a global market of only industrial hemp...
"Our findings show that Raman spectroscopy enables differentiation between male and female plants with 90% and 94% accuracy on the level of young and mature plants, respectively. Such analysis is entirely non-invasive and non-destructive to plants and can be performed in seconds using a hand-held spectrometer."
Those things are pretty damn expensive. Seems like a waste of money. Commercial outfits are not running regular seeds and spending $5000-$10,000 on some device to find out if a plant is male or female makes no sense for someone growing at home. I grow regular seeds almost exclusively. I don't see the need for that device.
Babalonian
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I like to time the date with a numerically pleasing and easy birthdate, better if timed with a good full moon and a super high tide. I like to open the fridge where I keep my seeds and grab the package out reverse-underhanded while playing some Barry White in the background. Then have a loved and trusted female/wife/friend select the seeds the be planted.
It’s better luck, duh
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