Possible Male Plant?

[nj12nets]

Hey, I recently switched the light cycle to about 16-18 hrs on/day and I'm seeing some nice growth (about to transplant because of size anyway) but on one plant I noticed a possible set of "balls" from the male cannabis plant...The other ones have the little stick type things(can't remember name right now) but what I'm worried about is that I'm still trying to do veg growth for at least anouther 3 weeks to a month at least before flowering. I don't want to mess my grow up at this point in. So here's two pics of the possible male plant, let me know what you guys can tell and if you have any advice.

If you notice some of the leave damage on bottom of the plant, I'm currently waiting for soil and pots to transplant into much bigger containers, I think being root bound is slowing down my plants.

Thanks in advance for the help guys.

 

[Sgt.Sly]

Get a closer pic of those nuts with the MACRO on on your camera, but, yup it looks like balls too me.

 

[nj12nets]

here's a few closer pix is there any way to convert em to female or do I just toss the plant?...I thought this doesn't take place until flowering, should I extend my light cycles? I don't want to accidentally start the flowering process too early and not provide a worthwhile yield.

 

[redivider]

it's not too close. but if you don't see white hairs, no goody....

 

[JahRoots]

Yea that first pic clearly shows a male plant. Yup tear him up and start again

edit: Also thats a preflower it wont actually flower untill you switch the light cycles.

 

[johnny961]

Def a male sorry man. Start over

 

[DoeEyed]

It's a boy, nope no way to change it to female.

 

[nj12nets]

grrr....how should I go about it? just cut the plant at the base and toss it?, should I be worried about the male having already messed up the other plants?

 

[Twistedfunk]

That's a male, sir. You have my condolences. Unless you want seeds in your crop get rid of him now. He will begin to pollinate any day now.

 

[nj12nets]

I guess I'll just toss all the soil and plant into a black garbage bag and say goodbye to one of my babies

 

[nj12nets]

all gone now...and the roots looked all perfectly round too...he looked so healthy ...hopefully the rest are just females

 

[DoeEyed]

all gone now...and the roots looked all perfectly round too...he looked so healthy ...hopefully the rest are just females

I know it sucks, I feel for ya - not too long ago I wound up tossing 18 out of 20 plants - I cried.

 

[nj12nets]

o man that's gotta feel horrible losing so much time invested...tossed that bastard...too bad we couldn't castrate lol

 

[svchop889]

make butter with it still has some thc

 

[nj12nets]

make butter with it still has some thc

would it have enough to be worthwhile in it and how would I?

so here's pics of my other plants, slightly out of focus(my camera won't focus well on the little pistil areas)but you can see the outline of the preflowers. I was just curious if you guys could make sure for me that they're not male or pollenated(if there's any way to tell)

 

[KiLLeR RiP 420]

here's a few closer pix is there any way to convert em to female or do I just toss the plant?...I thought this doesn't take place until flowering, should I extend my light cycles? I don't want to accidentally start the flowering process too early and not provide a worthwhile yield.

looks like a male ball on a stick thats usually easy way to tell if its a male before a group of balls start to show. Dont change your light cycle cause its natural for it to show sex after 4 weeks or more.

 

[nj12nets]

so in short, if you see little balls around the nodes its a male and if you see little spikes coming off instead its a female?

 

[KiLLeR RiP 420]

would it have enough to be worthwhile in it and how would I?

so here's pics of my other plants, slightly out of focus(my camera won't focus well on the little pistil areas)but you can see the outline of the preflowers. I was just curious if you guys could make sure for me that they're not male or pollenated(if there's any way to tell)

If it did get pollenated you could tell by looking at the white hairs. If your in early buding/flowering and all you see is white hairs and it gets pollinated then the hairs will turn red/brown and die fairly fast.

 

[arcticvapors]

sorry about the male...sux, i've dealt with enough males myself. i usually cut the plant at the base then send it down the garbage disposal, then dump soil in a bag and throw away.

a quick tip on autofocus cameras: all you have to do to get it to focus where you want it to is hold out a finger tip right at the point of focus, depress partly your shutter button to get the camera to focus on the area where your finger tip is, then remove your finger tip and finish pressing the button to take the pic. the issue when you're trying to focus on a small part of a larger image is that the algorithm in the camera that handles auto focus does not consider the subject matter your trying to focus on to be the focus point due to it's overall size, so it defaults and focuses mostly on the background, or a larger area of similar distances. I learned this through rial and error, i may be completely wrong in my explanation above, but that was what i could deduce from the behavior of my camera.

peace

 

[KiLLeR RiP 420]

QUOTE=nj12nets;3139224]so in short, if you see little balls around the nodes its a male and if you see little spikes coming off instead its a female?[/QUOTE]

The female part only has (one) spike/cone shape/pear shape. Its (tightly) atached on each side of the new branches next to the leafs branch on the stem. Should equal four on each node. It doesn't always show sex on each side.

The male part grows in groups. Early sighns of a male is a stem with a ball on the end or a group of balls. The female part/preflower dosn't grow in groups on each node and is (tightly) conjoined with no stem what so ever.