does a male grow faster than a female ???

this is my first time doing this and had a few questions

or is this just here say?

fuzzy roots? good? bad?

purple in roots


just wondering if there were any early signs of being able to tell if its a female

you cant tell untill you flower it.

evanpower said:

you cant tell untill you flower it.

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r u sure?anyone else?

you cant tell until you flower it.

Yep you can't tell till you put it into flowering or it shows pre flowers. But preflowers won't show up for atleast 4-6 weeks of age. Even preflowers might be hard to spot or make out though.

If you plant the seeds at the same time, the males grow faster and taller, to be ready to fertilize(polinate) the females when they are ready.

I planted 2 plants at the same time and the male was twice the size of the other plant when it started to flower...I threw it in the garbage when I noticed and I am hoping the 2nd is a nice lady.

Just because one plant grows faster then another is not a sure fire way to determine sex. You need to wait for preflowers or wait for it to go into flowering. Growth rate is not an accurate way to tell. Not at all.

I planted 3 plants and one of them was a male and while it didn't grow faster or bigger once it started showing sex it grew way faster than the females. I am sure that it is different for other strains I have seen people wait months after all their other plants have flowered just to find out it is a male. So like everyone else is saying just wait for the preflowers, even though I am not sure that you were asking about sexing plants in the first place. I am not a root expert but I do know that there are certain bacteria and fungi that you want around your roots and others you do not. I would look around RIU, usually hairy is a good thing and as long as your plants are fine I would not change anything. I also know that roots are suppose to be a healthy white to a pale yellow I have never heard of purple roots but who knows look around this site long enough and you can find the answer to anything.

brick top is right and very accurate.

Welp this is an old post.... But I'll throw in my 2¢. I planted 3 green crack regular seeds... And the seed that germinated last has now tripled the growth of the other 2 seeds under exact growing medium, nutrients, and conditions. I will know in a few weeks the sex, but I can only guess from previous experience... My biggest, fastest growing plant has always been a male, other than one time I was tricked by a hermaphrodite (sounds bad out of context) but non the less, I took it away from my females.

Brick Top said:

For one nothing about growth rate and plant sex is 100% across the board but in the 37 years I have grown, when I grew from regular seeds instead of feminized seeds often times males would grow faster than females. Often times they grew much faster.

As I said it is not something that is 100% across the board because the differences in strains and genetics so you cannot really rely on that to tell you what a plant is or is not because there can be any number of mitigating factors but if all is equal and you use regular beans and a plant or some plants are outpacing the others in the vegetative growth stage by a good bit it is at least likely it or they are males.
　
But the only way to be positive is to wait until you see pre-flowers. It was said you will have to put your plants into flower to find out but in many strains if you veg your plants long enough they will show their sex while still in the vegetative growth stage. Most people do not veg their plants that long so they believe a plant is incapable of showing its sex until they have been put into flower but that is not totally accurate.
　
Even in books written by some so-called professionals it will at times say plants will not show their sex until after the light cycle changes/is changed to a 12/12 cycle and that it can take up to two full weeks in a 12/12 light cycle before the hormones in plants that begin flowering will fully kick in and only then will the plants show their sex but they are also not totally accurate. Some strains are different from others.
　
Many, many, many, MANY times in my 37 years of growing my plants have shown their sex while still in the 18/6 light cycle so I know without any doubt that some strains can and will show their sex while still in the vegetative growth stage if you veg them long enough.

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This. I've had females shoot out preflowers and pistils under 24/7 lighting. Took about 6 - 8 weeks to show on all of them but they WILL in fact show. That was on indica dominant plants. If I worked with regular seeds and wanted to know the sex I'd personally just take a cutting and throw it into 12/12 asap.