plants devoling sex during veg stag?

My plants are still in the veg stage but are already showing signs of sex. I had two plants with balls and seven with hairs.
Plants are about 18 inchs tall so they are mature.
Am I doing something wrong?

theyre called preflowers..what do you mean what are you doing wrong..get rid of the males if you dont want seeds..

If they are not autoflowering strains, and they are grown from seed, not clone, then plants show PRE-FLOWERS around 6-8 weeks veg time (varies by strain I'm sure, but this is what I've seen). PRE-FLOWERS are indiciations that your plant is sexually mature and is ready for flowering. The balls are males, the hairs are female. Cut the balled plants and remove them from the garden unless you plan on breeding. Once the pre-flowers are showing you can easily identify what sex the plant is, and you can then change the light schedule to 12/12 and begin flowering as the plant has shown it is now mature enough to flower.

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almost all plants will start showing preflowers of their sex when they get above 4 weeks of age, some a bit longer. It is completely normal, you are doing nothing wrong.

Thanks for the help guys. I'm still new at this and have never had the results I've got going right now.
The males have been removed, I did that last night. My next question is can I still try to clone the plants that I decide to keep or will I have to flower all of them now?

PREFLOWERS homi but get rid of those dudes

as long as you haven't switched the lights to 12/12 they are still vegging. Clone away if you want.

Thanks guys.

Kerovan said:

almost all plants will start showing preflowers of their sex when they get above 4 weeks of age, some a bit longer. It is completely normal, you are doing nothing wrong.

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yes but its strange indoor that all plants showed under a veg cycle, my guess is there was a power failure at somestage forcing plants to throw a flower.

*BUDS said:

yes but its strange indoor that all plants showed under a veg cycle, my guess is there was a power failure at somestage forcing plants to throw a flower.

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ignore this. there is nothing strange about what happened. it would be strange if it DIDN'T happen after that long of a veg.

I'd guess over 95% of my plants show sex in veg. Perfectly normal, will happen under 24/0 and 16/8, it's just a normal thing... Once they start to bud you will see the difference between preflowers and buds