thanks @toastyjakes – that much? crazy. I’m used to twice the height going in, so this is definitely different. OK, will scrog for sure then. They were transplanted out of infected DWC a few days ago, and are looking way better, I was going to give them another few days to establish their new root systems - should I bother or let them do their thing as they flip?
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if you wanna give them a couple days to be safe then go ahead, you’ll be fine
I know that my first encounter with sativa heavy plants was beyond what I’ve seen in growth… from 16" at flip to 52" when I chopped… sometimes they get psychotic haha
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I am with Toasty, you should err on the side of caution and flip them asap. Have they shown sex yet?
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Oh yeah their mother plants were showing and these have had pistils since day 1. I would say they are mature.
Ok will get ready and flip shortly
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Yeah Haze get’s tall and is hard to controll LOL
I am about to flower some C5 x Mango haze, in planing 12/12 from clone, in hope to be able to controll the height.
Will be interresting to follow your haze grow, a little a head of mine
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Ugh. Still not flipped. Need to move the seedlings out to another space that has 18/6. Haven’t gotten my shit together to do that yet. They may end up big…
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As long as you have fewer than four branches per square foot of canopy space you should be fine. If they get too tall you can flop, top, pinch or fim em to fit your plans. Just make sure to be done before the end of the stretch period, preferably before day 2 of flower
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Good to know @Worcestershire_Farms; just one clarification – did you mean “week 2” of flower? I think i’m getting to that limit already; my topping and training has made many tops. OK, on Monday I flip, i promise.
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Well with a true haze, the stretch has a good chance of lasting 3-4 weeks. Sativas tend to react differently than Indicas when stressed at the beginning of flower, and until you’ve tested a technique on them it’s hard to know what will happen.
I just liquified a male Zamaldelica today that started throwing hairs when I topped him three weeks into flower. I’ve seen females throw balls when stressed, but a male throwing hairs?
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Odd indeed… I have never grown this haze before, nor any haze for that matter, so the super-stretchies are new to me.
The moms i took these cuts off look almost exactly like hedging cedars - super tall with short little side branches that turn almost vertical immediately
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ooh, dude, off topic but we took down thirty 30-foot black cedars this spring that smelled like mint/blueberries. I can’t imagine the essential oils yield we could have pulled with a pot still.
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there have been a couple males that hermed female that I’ve heard of on here… one by @99PerCent was a beautiful little it…
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Nothing better than the smell of cedar, i agree! A close second is pine sap on a hot summer day.
Funny you mentioned the smell of that tree - the firewood we get at the cabin washes up on the lake, and vast majority of it is cedar that drifted off the log barge. This is what i had my nose buried in earlier today, mostly western red, some yellow and some loose spruce:
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My understanding of plant hormone theory is stress blocks ethylene production and the plants revert to male by default. The idea that stress can force a male to hermie to female makes no sense in my mind.
Not to insinuate the stress isn’t the cause of the problem. It just doesn’t fit what I was taught.
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I think it’s more to the true intersex trait… where it may start growing one way and still grow the other as well…
i had a blue dream auto recently that have gave me balls with pistils coming from them…
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Bahahaha I forgot that song existed
EDIT: also forgot how cavernous his mouth is…
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Yeah that’s the conclusion I came to. It doesn’t fit the circumstances of the situation though, because there were 14 or so branches all 100% Staminate Flowers. When the plant was reduced to its lowest 4 branches one of those turned completely Female. No pollen sacks at all.
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well my thought is all plants will try to save their genes and grow again if compromised and in order for a male to do that it has to throw out female flowers
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