starting the first week of flowering today, after transplanting 3 plants into 3 gal fabric pots i decided to just sex them before transplanting the rest, nothing much to see here, moved the light up some to compensate for the plants height as i haven't adjusted it since day 1, i'll try to take some snaps throughout the week as they start to show sex
update: thursday - added a photo of the first male, i had the plants labeled from a to i and this was the "I" plant fwiw, also confirmed at least 3 females (didn't make a note of which) so still 5 plants of unknown sex, will post further updates as things develop.
update: sunday - culled 2 more males throughout the week, the 6 plants i have remaining look to be females with 1 still yet to reveal their sex. grow room has been through some changes: the veg slash flowering tent (vivosun 24x48x60) is fated to become a veg-only room as i build back out my perpetual, and with an eye towards a new flowering room i scored 3 gavita 1000de pros from a bankrupt hemp farm and have swapped in one to replace the marshydro sp-250, piped in ac from a whynter arc-14sh i also scored on a budget a few months back so everything stays nice and cool under the sweltering blue-tinged orange radiance of the gavita (currently running at minimum dimming of 600watts, effectively double the draw of the sp-250 running wide open). whatever your thoughts on the HID vs LED debate it's hard to ignore these HID deals that are everywhere on marketplace, ebay and craigslist for a fraction of the price, these 3 gavitas with newish bulbs and extra long 30' power cables cost me a total of 0, 3000watts of 1000+PAR covering 6 square meters...less than a nickel per watt, ill post up some pictures with the weekly update tomorrow
@Hempface86, same thing happened with "king's banner f2" from this same genetics company, and needless to say it was also straight fire herb, aside from the "gamma berries" ive tried from dark horse, they have all been top-shelf kind bud. cheers!
a final thought: from this run i can honestly say that yields were in line with those from previous scrog-type runs and resulted in less larf and more nugs, i feel, because they were just left alone to set bud early and start stacking without being weaved into a trellis net, i kept good airflow to the underskirts so my hand's off approach to defoliation of only removing visibly dead leaves had no adverse side effects. at the end of the day this marshydro sp-250 pulling 300 watts from the wall can only flower out 9-12 ounces regardless of training methods...i knew that light was the prime element in a grow but confirmation is always nice to have.