After a long and difficult vegetative stage, these lockdown plants have flipped into flower, and a spot of luck has graced my crop! All 5 of my MK Ultra adults - AND my big Mango Kush "Beau" - are female!
Spot the pistils (aka "white hairs") in each of the photos!
And of course, if all the plants are female, all the clones I took are, too! Check out this little darling:
She's small, but I'm going to flower her out anyway since she won't take up any room in the corner, and won't cost me anything. Nothing wrong with getting a really nice joint out of a tiny plant. (Too bad I don't have room for all of them!)
Luck
I've had some good luck and some rough experiences when dealing with unsexed (natural) cannabis seeds, and I do understand the draw to using clones and/or feminized seeds.
But this time, wow, I really lucked out! 6 plants for 6 is pretty darn good! Normally about 4 in 6 would be female, statistically.
So all those clones I took, to fill up my garden in case I got a bunch of males? Waste of time and space! I chopped my plants up, succeeded at cloning quite a few, and then didn't need the clones. Woops.
Apparently, my luck was better than it needed to be! Hahaha!
Grow in peace.
DRutter
Ah, but by Murphy's law, if you hadn't taken clones, you'd have had all males ;) I have had batches which turned out to be all male: 4/4
Dude, 4 males for 4, that's horrible. Did you immediately go out and NOT buy a lottery ticket? Jeez.
I'd say "better luck next time", but it couldn't possibly be worse!
I've also been in a vegetative state this July. It was a good Harvest Moon; I'm ready to flower.
We sure embrace the seasons, here in Canada, eh?!
It's great to have a little good news (even if it's a bit TOO good). All females is a nice problem to have.
Seeing those pistols come through is always a joyous occasion. Good luck on the flowers!
Well said. It's a bit like tasting that first delicious tomato of the season, knowing your hard work will result in a harvest (and your genetics back again). I've actually shed a tear at that moment, a few times, hahah.
Thanks! :))
We're glad that Beau is female :)
Will you in the future only have females now? Or how does the seeds work?
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Great question. The plants I have right now are all female. If I were to pollinate them with some regular pollen, they would produce seeds that were both female and male (at the natural rate of about 60% female). If I take clones (cuttings) from these females, another way to propagate (reproduce), they will be genetically identical to the original plants (ie: the clones will be females).
But these ladies aren't going to be pollinated, or cloned (any more than they already were). I'm just going to flower them out, as Nature intended, and harvest the seedless buds for medicine. :))
Okay cool :D