Exactly what they are
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Regulars.
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Wow, I will check them all. But all I looked at were females 
I will be dropping one tomorrow
It will be part of the 1 gallon grow 
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You can tell by looking at a seed?
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@Not2SureYet If I put 4 plants in a 32"x60" tent. One of each DP/GC/TW/BH am I looking for problems outside of being crowded. Never grew more than one plant at a time for the most part.
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@Nicky, So far, every one I have sext have been correct. So I think you can. @TLC, I think as long as you have good air flow. You could do it ok. I would think once you started a little defoliating early in flower. That would help a lot as well. My main issue for me is getting to all to trim a little. If you can deal with that. I would have a dehumidifier ready to use in flower if needed as 4 in a little room in flower will raise your humidity quiet a bit.
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Thats the whole idea behind APâS for me spend more time gardening less time watering. Climate control top of my list to the best I can do. Thanks
How do you tell the difference
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I still go by this. It hasnât failed me yet. Some are easier to tell than others. I dropped a Big Rig replacement seed a friend grew. His are a lot harder to tell. But I think I have a female dropped
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I donât have any more regulars to try but I remember us having a thread based on this and very mixed reviews.
I talked to a friend of a friend who said he tried it with no luck but I know your skills and donât know his so now it makes me wonderâŚ
I will keep it in mind for when I get a bunch of norms one way or the other.
Keep track of it for us, how many have you sext correctly so far?
I think until we get into the hundred seed mark itâs unreliable data as well as you do need to use a bit of magnification in order to be sure.
Some seeds are deformed and donât fit either profile I find at least.
@TLC heed the warnings, I grew 4 plants in a 4x2 and lots them to bud rot due to humidity issues.
Lots of airflow, dehumidifier and exhaust old air outside of the house/garage or whatever.
Once one plant gets mold they will all get them so defoilation is key at about week 2 of flower and again at week 4 or so
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@Nicky 
The rest is gardening
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Hey dude, I havenât had time to catch up on your thread yet, but things are finally settling down a bit at work. I just wanted to show you this Six Shooter because I know you were interested in the strain. No doubt itâs the real deal, lol. This girl is in a 2 gallon fabric pot, had no training whatsoever, and been neglected because of my work schedule. Sheâs the first plant Iâve ever had problems getting through my closet door, and thatâs including all my big photo period girls. I canât even imagine if I had put her in a 5 gallon pot and trained her, lol.
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the thing about crowding is that i think it makes herme more possible. in my first 3 grows with 6 plants in a 4x4 i had some seeds in each. i am attributing that to crowding which i know is a possibility with that. as long as you keep an eye out for male parts you might make it okay.
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I donât think thereâs any scientific evidence for that. Cannabis growing in the wild grows in crowded conditions, and I have 40ish plants in a 4x4. I respectfully disagree.
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you have 40ish plants in a 4x4, all at the same time? that is possible, i can see a way for that to work. but they wonât be this size and they wonât be in 3 gallon pots.
i just read thru the guides again about stress and no where in it does it say that crowding causes stress. i also searched âwhat effect does crowding have on plantsâ and it also does not say anything about causing some seeds in your plants. i then asked âwhy do i get some seeds in each grow that i am growing of feminized plantsâ and there was no response to the question. i also typed âwhy do i get seeds in my feminized plantsâ and got nothing but different seeds for sale. i am sure that there is a way to phrase what iâm trying to find out but i donât know what it is. but reading thru what i found about overcrowding of plants proves to me that it is not something that you want to do if you are trying for top notch buds. to me having ten or twenty seeds per a 4 ounce plant is not that big a deal. but i would never use those seeds to grow more pot, i always throw them out. i believe the same about breeding dogs, cats, horses, orchids, or any of a bunch of other things that you try to have an effect on by breeding. you donât want to perpetuate bad genes.
i did find this in my wanderings.
Bisexual Plants
Plants that become hermaphrodites due to environmental factors such as stress, are known as bisexual plants. This happens on the female plant, when it begins to detect factors that can induce stress, it then begins to produce stamen along the pistils. By doing this, the plant shortens its flowering time, ensuring that it is more likely to pass its genes to its offspring. When this happens, you should move the plant away from the others in your crop. In most cases, it should be harvested immediately.
but no where in that article did it say the crowding would cause the stress.
@TLC
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Iâm a big time offender when it comes to overcrowding my grow spaces. Iâve never had hermies. I did end up with WPM once, but that was due my lack of experience. I treated it with Green Cleaner, added more fans, got a bigger dehumidifier, and havenât had any problems since. Iâm not suggesting overcrowding, itâs a preference like many other things.
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They could be that size if I chose to veg longer. Theyâre almost that size now. The advantage is to have more plants, and smaller plants and flip sooner. If âsizeâ of the plant is the determining factor to success, then I certainly could veg longer to prove a point.
Overcrowding, in my opinion is maximizing canopy sqft, I can get top quality nugs as long as I do proper pruning techniques. Bottom 1/3 of the plant should be stripped away.
Either way, nug quality, yield, wasnât the discussion, it was seeds.
I believe whole heartily that genetics is the determining cause and effect of seeds. @monkman Feminized seeds are likely to herm, because theyâre from a hermed plant to begin with.
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I agree I would SOG photo clones if I knew what strain I wanted to grow but I am still exploring so I just keep to the autos for now
Easy explanation is you have plants going hermaphrodite. Maybe you have light leak, maybe light stress, temperature, training methods, maybe its even genetic in a line that youâre running.
The only thing I can confidently say about crowding plants is that it seems to cause them to compete for space. Usually ending up in a little more vertical growth.
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Also, if running feminized seeds, genetics for vigor are likely already compromised and we know are prone to hermaphrodites.
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thats the cycle I want