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showing sex after 26 days of veg?!

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showing sex after 26 days of veg?!

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I have 4 Lemon Haze started, I was LSTing last night and 1 of the 4 is showing balls. They are only 26 days old and have been under 20/4 light cycle, never got dry, cold or otherwise stressed. Is this a genetics thing? I really only have room in my flowering tent for 2 of the 4 so I'm not unhappy, just curious on what causes this?
 
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I would think there must be some auto [ruderalis] in the genes?
One of my autos last year flowered at 21 days old.
 
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I only see the one. You can pop it off and hope it’s just a random genetic thing rather than a male or hermi.

I grew the one male I had in a closet and saved the pollen, just for the heck of it.
 
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Um... it looks like you have both vegging & flowering together?
 
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Zen_Seeker said:
Um... it looks like you have both vegging & flowering together?
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Yes, the others in that tent are autos, I'm vegging the Lemon Haze in there. I was getting ready to move to flowering closet when I saw the male
 
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Zen_Seeker said:
I only see the one. You can pop it off and hope it’s just a random genetic thing rather than a male or hermi.

I grew the one male I had in a closet and saved the pollen, just for the heck of it.
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there were a couple, I haven't chucked it yet so I'll pinch them off and see. Thx!
 
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The 20/4 lighting or long days will stimulate male hormones in some genetics. Doing the opposite can give one more female. Starting a light photoperiod under 14/10 with slowly increased hours will produce female hormones. In my latest garden using this method I got 12 females out of 13 reg seeds. That's using 4 seeds from 3 different reg. strains in this grow and still got 12 females.

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Trixie said:
The 20/4 lighting or long days will stimulate male hormones in some genetics. Doing the opposite can give one more female. Starting a light photoperiod under 14/10 with slowly increased hours will produce female hormones. In my latest garden using this method I got 12 females out of 13 reg seeds. That's using 4 seeds from 3 different reg. strains in this grow and still got 12 females.

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thats a good result! I popped 3 of these seeds in the Fall and ALL 3 were males so I figured my chances of a couple fems in this batch of 4 was pretty good...
 
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My plants normally start showing preflowers in 4 weeks, but those male flowers are a little better developed than what I have on my plants now. I'd have to use a magnifier to take pics of them now (popped their heads above the surface on December 29th and 30th, so they're 28 and 29 days old today).

Anyway, I'd just chop it, unless you want pollen.
 
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GreenGalaxyFarm said:
citing your research please. note that some plants can flower under 14/10
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Good point GreenGalaxy however the trick is in the "increasing hours" and that is key. Plants have time clocks inside them and know if the photoperiod is increasing or decreasing. If one plants a seed in late Summer after Summer Solstice the plants swing more into producing male hormones. Where the same seed is planted in Spring with early photoperiod the plants will have more female hormones.
 
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Trixie said:
Good point GreenGalaxy however the trick is in the "increasing hours" and that is key. Plants have time clocks inside them and know if the photoperiod is increasing or decreasing. If one plants a seed in late Summer after Summer Solstice the plants swing more into producing male hormones. Where the same seed is planted in Spring with early photoperiod the plants will have more female hormones.
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very interesting. havnt seen this in my experience usually 50-50 when you plant seeds enmass, grown under the sun from spring
 
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Trixie said:
Good point GreenGalaxy however the trick is in the "increasing hours" and that is key. Plants have time clocks inside them and know if the photoperiod is increasing or decreasing. If one plants a seed in late Summer after Summer Solstice the plants swing more into producing male hormones. Where the same seed is planted in Spring with early photoperiod the plants will have more female hormones.
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The only thing I can find easily on this is basically some blog post on some random weed site. Got any sources citing this and showing that you'll get more females this way? White paper? Research article? Text book? Anything that isn't some sketchy weed blog site? Sounds like someone took some basic knowledge, and applied some random "fact" to it.
 
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