Gato’s Grow Closet

[George]

Do you want to make seeds in case of having a male?

[Gato]

I wouldn’t be against having seeds but I want some flower to smoke

[George]

Then you should wait until sexed and separate the male(s), I always have this in mind:

@Upstate

I’d consider starting to flower the males a bit after the ladies( 2 weeks maybe) so the females are a bit developed before pollen interrupts flower formation. Females make flowers to reproduce, and if there is no hanky panky, they react by improving their odds…which means making more flowers to catch pollen. Once pollination is occurring, the plant starts concentrating on growing seed( to an extent) rather than 100% of its energy going towards floral production. This is why I allow the females a head start. Bigger flowers at the start of pollination means more seed ime. I like pollinating pinky nail size flowers. If you fully pollinate too late( thumbnail size flowers) the plant will be trying to make too many seeds at once. And the result will be that it will abort some, or make small seeds.
What you don’t want is your males petering out before the females are properly flowering. If you flower males early I’d plan to collect pollen for later…just in case.
Of course, there’s lots of ways to do this and there are no wrong answers.

If you flip them at the same time, the ladies will not be ready when the male starts to drop pollen …

[Upstate]

Nice to see you posting buddy.
@Gato if you just want a dozen seeds per plant, separate and remove the males so they don’t drop pollen in your tent or grow space and give you headaches later. You can even pull off the male flowers before they ripen until getting close to pollination if you don’t have a safe space for them to dump pollen… Once the ladies have preflowers on each leaf set, put them in with the males (stop removing ripe flowers a few days before this)and a fan on oscillate for one full day. Then wash them off good in the shower or another way. You should get 2 seeds at each leaf set if you time it right. As George mentioned, males kick off before the ladies by a week or two. If you have no other place to keep males but yur grow space for the ladies, you can wait until they are nearly dumping pollen and then snip off the top and put it in a vase with waxpaper underneath to catch pollen. Pollen can live for 30 days or more just laying in a room… so you have to be extremely careful not to fully seed your crop. Just let George know what you are doing before you do it and he will keep you from making more seeds than you want. He’s become quite the seed maker himself…

@George

Then you should wait until sexed and separate the male(s), I always have this in mind:

This is ideal if you can do so.

[George]

@Upstate

As George mentioned

I was mentioning you , thanks for chiming in …

[Gato]

@George @Upstate thank you both, very informative I appreciate immensely. I’m still waiting for preflowers currently, they’re being shy . From what I’ve been reading online and in here (also from George is predicting) I know I have 1 female. Maybe 2 if I’m being optimistic.

[SoilSorcerer]

Looking healthy, dude!

[Gato]

Thanks brother, I’m trying my best being that this is my first grow!

[Gato]

Just dropping some mid quality pics sorry lol! The NGxSB looking more like a dude so I might cull soon. The TFxSB 1 might be a dude @George what do you think?

[George]

@Gato

The NGxSB looking more like a dude

Hi ,I think so, but better wait a bit before taking some action, try to snap a pic of the preflowers on the rest, this is how a dude looks, no pistils …

[leetdood]

Hey @gato your plants look good.

Don’t worry about the budget setup, what works is what works. We all pick up more tools as we go along.

[Gato]

Im starting to notice some deficiencies in all three of the plants, they still haven’t preflowered… thinking of feeding them 4 tsb of 444&284 Gaia green and some worm castings later today.

[Gato]

While I was getting ready to feed I noticed something growing on the nodes of NGxSB and TFxSB 1 and I have a feeling that they are in fact dudes. Help me out if you can @George or anyone that stops by, should I hold off on the feed and cull or feed and wait?

NGxSB

TFxSB 1

[George]

The second one is a dude, that preflower on the right is far from the axis. The first one also looks like one but anyway I would wait for further developing and others opinions, I have culled more than one lady for not being patient enough…

[Gato]

I was thinking of waiting until tomorrow to feed and cull the males, going to see what others think.

[George]

You can post it here so more people will see it…

Male, Female or Hermie? Official Sex Identification Topic

This is official identification thread. First post is wiki and you are welcome to update this post. First post should serve as a tutorial or guide featuring most illustrative examples of plant sex. Post your photos as a reply to this topic to get your plants identified. All replies will be automatically deleted after 30 days. Good photo examples should be moved into this wiki post before reply expires. Female Showing white pistils coming from the preflower. The …

[Nugslinger]

No reason not to wait it out

[Gato]

Well I just got home from working some over time and just checked all three plants… here’s one of the better pictures

Yup. All 3 are dudes 🥲… @George you got 2/3 right lol…

[Gato]

I guess I should start planning what to try next right? My small collection and still hard to decide.

We got flips from @stiffy @Nugslinger @joheimgrohen and pucks from @THCeed @Ottafish , decisions decisions.

[Ottafish]

Nobody has run the Trop Fuel x Sour Bubble. Those will be