How to tell male frome female early as posible?
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FlipAPenny
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The males start to grow balls. You will know it when you see it.
Spittn4cash
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Ive found that males usually grow faster than females.
I was told the same thing from other growers as well. They explained they do this bcuz males need to be more mature than females during flowering in order to produce mature seeds at the end of their life cycles..I dunno if that part is true but in my grows the males were always the largest, healthiest looking and fastest growing.
I was told the same thing from other growers as well. They explained they do this bcuz males need to be more mature than females during flowering in order to produce mature seeds at the end of their life cycles..I dunno if that part is true but in my grows the males were always the largest, healthiest looking and fastest growing.
mogie
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You can tell by preflowers. This describes them.
What are preflowers?
Preflowers, as opposed to full blown flowers, generally appear after the fourth week of vegetative growth from seed. Check carefully above the fourth node. Please note that preflowers are very small and and almost impossible to differentiate without magnification. A photographer's 10x loupe is handy indeed when examining preflowers.
As the images below demonstrate, the female preflower is pear shaped and produces a pair of pistils. Frequently, the female preflowers do not show pistils until well after the preflowers have emerged. Thus, don't yank a plant because it has no pistils. Pistillate preflowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Also, some female preflowers never produce pistils. A female preflower without pistils is difficult to distinguish from a male preflower. Thus, hermaphodite issues should not be resolved by the appearance of preflowers, without pistils, on a plant otherwise believed to be a female.
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of MrIto
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of Uncle Ben
The male preflower may be described as a "ball on a stick." However, its most recognizable feature is its absence of pistils. Sometimes, a male plant will develop mature staminate flowers after prolonged periods of vegetative growth. These appear in clusters around the nodes.
The following image shows a male plant in early flowering. Staminate flowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Male (staminate)
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Image courtesy of PLAYn
Image courtesy of PsycoXul
What are preflowers?
Preflowers, as opposed to full blown flowers, generally appear after the fourth week of vegetative growth from seed. Check carefully above the fourth node. Please note that preflowers are very small and and almost impossible to differentiate without magnification. A photographer's 10x loupe is handy indeed when examining preflowers.
As the images below demonstrate, the female preflower is pear shaped and produces a pair of pistils. Frequently, the female preflowers do not show pistils until well after the preflowers have emerged. Thus, don't yank a plant because it has no pistils. Pistillate preflowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Also, some female preflowers never produce pistils. A female preflower without pistils is difficult to distinguish from a male preflower. Thus, hermaphodite issues should not be resolved by the appearance of preflowers, without pistils, on a plant otherwise believed to be a female.
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of MrIto
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of Uncle Ben
The male preflower may be described as a "ball on a stick." However, its most recognizable feature is its absence of pistils. Sometimes, a male plant will develop mature staminate flowers after prolonged periods of vegetative growth. These appear in clusters around the nodes.
The following image shows a male plant in early flowering. Staminate flowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Male (staminate)
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Image courtesy of PLAYn
Image courtesy of PsycoXul
Spittn4cash
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also if you gently caress the underside of the fan leaves on a male plant they will become stiff. so thats another way to tell males from females..
j/k
j/k
Spittn4cash
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lmao!
skunkushybrid
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Usually during the 6-8 week veg' mark, your plants will begin to show preflowers.
courtcourt420
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one thing that ive been watching since i started growing, is the growth rate between males and females . If you cant see pre-flowers yet , you can see that males are more "lanky" than the females . and when you put them into flowering, they're growth goes crazy. it gets much bigger and the branches subdivide a lot more than the females.
