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Old 06-03-2004, 09:19 AM
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Yes mircale grow soil will work for growing. But it already has nutrients in it that are a bit too strong for mj. You plant could be nute burned very early on. (Because seedlings don't even need nutes from the jump, they get there nutes from the first set of leaves).

Um about the female to male to hermie ratio. You're going to have males it's more or less unavoidable if you start from seeds (although it's rather easier starting from clones). Basically to get a better male to female ration you just have to keep the idea conditions going. To much stress can lead to more males, or worse hermies.....

As long as your grow is in check with heat, cold, humitity, etc you should be fine. MJ is fairly resilant.

The one thing that will make a female turn hermie in a heartbeat is a fucked up light schedule during flowering. That stresses the plant out horribly.

One personal idea of mine is that co2 might play a factor into the male to female to hermie ratio. I've never seen it proven or anything like that. But, the basic idea is to keep idea conditions for growing plants, and all plants need co2 to survive don't they?..... I've never heard anybody say that co2 makes a difference in the ratios, but I've never heard anybody say that it didn't either....... I'll let you come to your own conclusion.

Also one more little pointer. Don't waste your money of feminized seeds. Feminized seeds are made by taking desirable females and making them hermies to produce seeds. The basic idea is that there are no male genetics there so you'll never get a male..... That may be true, but they're have a far greater tendacy to turn hermie right quick on your ass.

Sidious is a mod here and an exceptional grower and even some of his feminized seeds went hermie. So, if it happened to him, it'll happen to you and don't waste your money.
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