Can you identify the sex of a plant and then keep it from flowering?

[adrenalytic]

Or are they one and the same? Once you see it's a female, flowering is inevitable?

 

[xtsho]

Or are they one and the same? Once you see it's a female, flowering is inevitable?

You can induce flowering with a 12/12 light schedule and when the plant shows sex you can put it back on a veg light cycle. It will extend the growth cycle as the plant has to revert back to vegetative growth.

 

[adrenalytic]

You can induce flowering with a 12/12 light schedule and when the plant shows sex you can put it back on a veg light cycle. It will extend the growth cycle as the plant has to revert back to vegetative growth.

And you can keep it in veg indefinitely to take clones from, correct?

 

[Chemically altered]

Yes sir!

 

[adrenalytic]

Thanks!

 

[adrenalytic]

Sorry. One follow up question. If you keep the plant in 18/6, it will never show its' sex organs?

 

[klx]

A plant will show sex in veg once it reaches sexual maturity which usually takes at least a month from seed. Do a search for sexing plants and you will see examples what to look for. Its a bit tricky at first but once you have some experience it gets easier.

Basically you are looking for 2 white hairs on the pre flower (female) or a little pod on a stalk (male).

 

[Chemically altered]

Sorry. One follow up question. If you keep the plant in 18/6, it will never show its' sex organs?

Yes it will it just takes a few weeks in veg.

 

[adrenalytic]

Ok, a friend of mine is telling me you can't see the sex until you go into flower. Is she dumb?

 

[xtsho]

Ok, a friend of mine is telling me you can't see the sex until you go into flower. Is she dumb?

No she's not wrong. Some plants will show in veg. Some won't show until light induced.

 

[CannaBruh]

She is inexperienced.

The longer in veg they go the more pronounced the pre-flowers will become. Give them time they will show what they are.


Have never found a plant that wouldn't eventually show, maybe they exist but they must be very very elusive and an exception/outlier.

 

[Chemically altered]

Ok, a friend of mine is telling me you can't see the sex until you go into flower. Is she dumb?

She’s not dumb. Lol but that’s not true.

 

[xtsho]

She is inexperienced.

The longer in veg they go the more pronounced the pre-flowers will become. Give them time they will show what they are.


Have never found a plant that wouldn't eventually show, maybe they exist but they must be very very elusive and an exception/outlier.

I've had them go three months without showing until they were in 12/12. But then I've also had males start flowering after a month under 24 hours of light. Since I want males I just grow them to the size I want and then flip them.

 

[adrenalytic]

No she's not wrong. Some plants will show in veg. Some won't show until light induced.

How do you know which are which?

 

[CannaBruh]

How do you know which are which?

They all will show... eventually, it might take many months however typically by the 5th or 6th node in veg they can be identified in veg.

 

[adrenalytic]

Thanks for the answers yall. My friend is very humbled to find that she was incorrect regarding sexual identification of marijuana plants.

 

[NeWcS]

I've never been able to spot a male in veg. But females. yes. totally possible.

 

[adrenalytic]

I've never been able to spot a male in veg. But females. yes. totally possible.

Why are males harder to spot than females? From the vids I've seen on youtube, it looks pretty obvious what's male and what's female.

 

[NeWcS]

Why are males harder to spot than females? From the vids I've seen on youtube, it looks pretty obvious what's male and what's female.

It is, in flower...

 

[adrenalytic]

Alright man, be cryptic. I'll ask elsewhere.