So I'm setting up a stealth grow and have a question about discovering the sex of a plant. If I just throw the plants on a 12 on off cycle from the jump, will the pistils an stamens develop or show any faster? VS. having a 24 on veg state till they show. Because I obviously want to keep the plant short an flower right away
If you start 12/12 from seed then the plants will start showing sex at the first moment they are ready to. But, you will end up with much lower yield per plant because you did not veg to let the plant develop side branches and such.
Switching 12/12 alters the hormones. So you really don't want to do that until you veg for a few weeks. You can Clone-For-Sex or have it on 18/6 (this schedule shows sex faster) It really doesn't take long. My White Widow showed it's sex exactly 1 month after it entered the Veg stage. 1 Week seedling, 3-4 weeks later pistils.