sexing seedlings!!

yes a clone or clones can be taken from a plant at 30-40 days veg, as long as it is developed enough........as for flowering a clone after only 7 days days rooting, i'd say no, it's too early and flowering it will cause some stress, when it's allready stressed out developing a good root structure, but i may be wrong, woody is the best to answer that one, as he only grows from clones..........as for the 10 week old plant showing sex, some strains will show sex when they're good and ready, even indoors, and the other 95% of strains will need to be forced to flower, unless grown outdoors..........and the advantage of force flowering is that you can keep a plant in a constant veg stage in a seperate chamber, and use it for clones only, this is known as the mother.......(obviously it has to be a female in the first place)....and in another room or chamber you have flowering room.................hence 2 rooms one on a light schedule of 18/6 or 24/0 whichever you prefer and this room will have the mother plant and all the rooting clones, and in the other room you'd have a light schedule of 12/12 in here would be all the clones that have a good root structure and are being flowered..........hope that kinda answers your question...........ps what's the hurry??...............Peace out.............Sid

 

ps forgot to say most growers prefer to have 3 rooms 1 for rooting, one for vegging and another for flowering for a continuous growing system..........as most growers like to root their clones under fluros..................Peace out..........Sid

 

here's what i'd do.......if you take clones they're going to take approx 7-14 days just to root and then you'd have to force flowering and if you were lucky you'd be able to tell sex in approx a further 7-10 days.......hence all in it would take approx 14-24 days to tell the sex of the clones and then know what plants to remove and what to keep..............a faster way is to put the 30-40 day old seedling plants into 12/12 and wait approx 7-10 days till they start to show sex and then remove the males and also the male clones (which should all be well marked, or you may lose your females as well like i did stoned one night)........it takes less than 2 weeks to do, and tells you the sex of both the seedling plants and the clones, and then if you want both the clones and the seedling plants to veg longer you can....... it tells you which to bin and which to keep so can grow in confidence that all are female..........as long as you don't get a hermie.........that's a transexual to all non growers.........every grower hates them.................Peace out.........Sid

 

a plant can turn hermi when its stressed, normaly its from bad lighting cycles but it can happen other ways.

there is a way to keep getting buds from the same plant its called reveging. u flower the plant and then harvest it early leaving a lot of the plant still growing, then u turn the lights back to vegging, 18/6 or 24/0 till u get new growth then u can flower it again, mite b an idea to let it grow a bit 1st tho.

warning, this can stress the plant and cause it to throw a few male flowers.

 

why not keep the biggest female, as a mother, keep her for clones. that gives you chance to free up some space, and gro some others.

 

where did you hear this? im sure it may be true, but even a 1st generation from seed should be pretty potent if grown under ideal conditions. clones after a time will degenerate

 

okay this is what i would do. if space was limited, then i would take my biggest female that appeared to be the best genetically, and keep her in veg state, maybe even 2 if i was torn about killing a girl. from that point, you could take clones basically whenever, from that point you could start your flowering 2-3 weeks after the clones have vegged. 6-8 weeks later, a harvest. and so fourth. i would not clone from clones.