Male or female or hermie?

Unless you are seeing some balls somewhere, I'm pretty sure its a girl. You might wanna check to see if there might be a light leak near the plant- if all else fails isolate it in dark for 36 hours and that should help push it to flower.

Going from the spacing of the nodes, the plant is mature. We need a closer picture of the stipule, or preflower area in order to tell the gender
Look into it

Is there a trick with the camera? I was told once before cause I had the same issue with another plant - to put a piece of paper behind the plant. I did it this time and it still doesn't bring in the preflowers clear. If I bring the camera closer, it can't focus.

Guess I'll just keep waiting for hairs or balls. Theres lots of little things growing in between the nodes but they don't look like bananas and they don't like like female flowers either. This plant is so behind schedule with its flowering I might just chop it down. But its lower branches are so full, I'm just worried the delay might mean its a hermie. It shouldn't take 4 weeks of 12/12 for it to flower I don't understand what the plants deal is. Almost like it doesn't wanna go into flowering stage.

Originally Posted by Bojangles69

Is there a trick with the camera? I was told once before cause I had the same issue with another plant - to put a piece of paper behind the plant. I did it this time and it still doesn't bring in the preflowers clear. If I bring the camera closer, it can't focus.

Guess I'll just keep waiting for hairs or balls. Theres lots of little things growing in between the nodes but they don't look like bananas and they don't like like female flowers either. This plant is so behind schedule with its flowering I might just chop it down. But its lower branches are so full, I'm just worried the delay might mean its a hermie. It shouldn't take 4 weeks of 12/12 for it to flower I don't understand what the plants deal is. Almost like it doesn't wanna go into flowering stage.

Your camera if it's worth half a toke should have a setting on it called macro, you can change it with a little button that actually looks like a flower. The autofocus setting doesn't work so hot real close up. Select the macro setting, get close up, then use the zoom to get even closer. You should be able to get better pics than you got unless you are using a cell phone.

Originally Posted by rombomb420

Your camera if it's worth half a toke should have a setting on it called macro, you can change it with a little button that actually looks like a flower. The autofocus setting doesn't work so hot real close up. Select the macro setting, get close up, then use the zoom to get even closer. You should be able to get better pics than you got unless you are using a cell phone.

Agreed, macro is the word to look for

when it starts to flower you will know...if you cant tell then its too early.after the first set of hairs appear they grow more and more everyday..same thing with the male balls.if you are ever unsure on the sex..then its too early...theres no doubt when its flowering.till you see hairs or balls you cant be sure...could always be new growth.just give it some time and it will tell.i used to hate waiting for a plant to sex...now i buy only fem seeds...and ive had 100% success with fem seeds...not one male or hermie out of all the seeds ive gotten.since i dont do any breeding i dont need reg seeds....seems pointless to waste the time and money on growing a plant for a month or two for it to turn male

Taking that long to show gender is not a good thing. Chances are this is either a poor performing strain, or one of the phenos in your strain is weak. When I've had a situation like you, the particular plant that was late showing, ended up being a poor producer. That being said, usually when it takes this long to show, it is female.

Originally Posted by 9867mike777

Taking that long to show gender is not a good thing. Chances are this is either a poor performing strain, or one of the phenos in your strain is weak. When I've had a situation like you, the particular plant that was late showing, ended up being a poor producer. That being said, usually when it takes this long to show, it is female.

your right about all but one thing...if it takes longer to show sex dont mean its a female...its true that males will show sex before females...but as it comes to hermies...they have the longest hangtime...it can sometimes take a hermie 1-2 months on 12/12 to start showing sex.but like ya said...the longer it takes to sex and even forcing it to sex dont work..its not going to be a good producer.if after 3 weeks it dont show..you have a bad strain/seed or its not getting the right light spectrum