Dude really?! Another male?

Weouthere

Weouthere

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Hey guys. I’ve got 2 plants running outside and now 3 indoor, had to cull one of my Icicles because it was a hermie.
Im pretty sure this ones showing me male. Just want some assurance before I chop it.
Farmers Fire (strain) in ffof/hf/EWC raised indoor until 5is weeks, then outdoor, getting just water.
 

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rob333

rob333

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Weouthere said:
Hey guys. I’ve got 2 plants running outside and now 3 indoor, had to cull one of my Icicles because it was a hermie.
Im pretty sure this ones showing me male. Just want some assurance before I chop it.
Farmers Fire (strain) in ffof/hf/EWC raised indoor until 5is weeks, then outdoor, getting just water.
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that is not male and if it is it to early to tell they look more like a pre follow as sacks hang and turn more into a ball
 
Weouthere

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Kassiopeija said:
but youll have a better genetic base if you use regs. indoors start them with 12/12 and youll know their sex withi week 3-4, sort them out, veg for an additional month, flower... easy...
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Yeah it was a seed from my buddy’s last grow. The one in my tent is female and doing pretty good so I have one at least :)
I’ve been running bagseed but I got a pack of Archive seeds finally for the next couple grows and I couldn’t be more excited to have real quality genetics.
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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Weouthere said:
It was most definitely a male haha. After looking under 60x there’s no way in hell those were female preflowers. Clusters of balls on almost every node.
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guess you are right but one needs to be careful when examinating pre-flowers - for example stress (like topping) could cause herming...

Experienced that one time, too - did top a fem strain (during veg ofc) and it fully grew 2 spade-like sacks OVER NIGHT in response to that. (to add, @ that particular toped node)

But the other pics on nodes already displaying an alternate leaf phyllotaxis are more strongly evident of the plant being a true male... :peace:
 
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Weouthere

Weouthere

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Kassiopeija said:
guess you are right but one needs to be careful when examinating pre-flowers - for example stress (like topping) could cause herming...

Experienced that one time, too - did top a fem strain (during veg ofc) and it fully grew 2 spade-like sacks OVER NIGHT in response to that. (to add, @ that particular toped node)

But the other pics on nodes already displaying an alternate leaf phyllotaxis are more strongly evident of the plant being a true male... :peace:
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I mean, even if stress did herm the plant, wouldn’t I want it gone anyway? Or would I just pick off the balls/nanners and keep going? genuine wonderment :)
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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Weouthere said:
I mean, even if stress did herm the plant, wouldn’t I want it gone anyway? Or would I just pick off the balls/nanners and keep going? genuine wonderment :)
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it depends... you could remove these balls and be nice to the plant and flower it successfully. However, a plant that reacts to stress like this may do it again and pollenize itself or your other plants.
It's a risk you are taking and no one can tell you in advance what to do.

I'd pick away the balls and continue, but be on the hood and control daily. A male flower can grow over night, but they still need some days to open....

also seeded MJ gives another high... some growers collect pollen, freeze them and manually pollenize the bottom branch to get this effect + keep the plant from herming from alone. For a female cannabis plant it's sort of quite unusual to carry weeks n months of unpollenized flowers (in a landrace cannabis field there's pollen everywhere anytime...)
 
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