2-Month Plant: Is this sexing already?

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mikecanada

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Newly registered to forum - but have been a reader for a while. Growing my first plant outdoors for the last two months. Plant is super small due to the lack of light and bad temperature where I live - been a tough summer with bad weather. This is more of a social experiment grow. Not taking it too seriously.

Bit worried though, as my plant is only about a foot high after two months - solid green leafs though and looks super healthy. But is not growing as it should. Note this is not the problem or question I have, but thought I'd mention it's specs as it might be related...

My question is - is this plant starting to show sex already? is this male? Pics are not very good but there's a "ball" like growth - that's about 1/3 the size of a cannabis seed. In fact, it's shape is quite similar as well. Has some sort of "whitish" pointed top if you look close enough. Is this a male? Or potentially a female? Or is it not sexing at all. Will the plant even sex at this stage and at this size? Hopefully the pics give you (and me) some insight.

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Holylander

Holylander

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Hi Mike, plants will sex according to their age not their size so no worries about that and 6-8 weeks is enough time from seed to start maturing . As for those nubs, they are in the right spot but that is too early I think to see anything. I'd keep watching, and good luck guy!
 
jkahndb0

jkahndb0

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Those are pre-flowers.
Which appear to be female pre-flowers but it is Very hard to distinguish between male and female pre-flowers at first so I wouldnt make any important decisions based on this...


PRE-FLOWERING AND EARLY SEXING
Recall that during pre-flowering, plants start to exhibit their sex. As a grower, you should be hoping for as many females as possible. Pre-flowering occurs at the node regions. Towards the end of vegetative growth you need to check your plant nodes for what is called calyx development. A clone will carry the exact same genetic makeup as the plant it came from, so if you know your clone's history you will already be able to predict it's sex.

CHECKING FOR CALYX DEVELOPMENT
Choose a plant. First of all examine the node regions of the plant where the branches meet the stem. You are looking for very small pod shaped organs here at these regions.* If you don't find any here then move outwards along each branch checking each node region until you come to the tip. If you do not find calyx development then your plant has not reached its pre-flowering phase yet. You need to wait for it. Calyx development will come in time.
There are three early indicators of plant sex, but they are not 100 percent accurate.So remember, these methods can fail, but are often accurate predictors of your plants' sex.

First Early Sexing Method
If you've been growing the same strain and all the seeds were started at the same time, then you may notice that some plants are taller than others: the smaller plants tend to be female and the taller ones tend to be male. You can separate these plants into two sections in order to see how good your guesswork was when you do definitively identify sex. The other thing to note is that male plants generally start to pre-flower before females. If you have taller plants that are producing new growths before the smaller ones then the taller plants are probably male.

Second Early Sexing Method
A good way to identify plant sex at an early date is to examine the calyx* with the aid of a very fine magnifying glass. If the calyx is raised on a small, short stem then it's probably a male. If the calyx isn't raised on a small short stem then it's probably a female.

Third Early Sexing Method
'Force-flowering' is probably the best early-sexing method. To force-flower a cannabis plant, simply take a cutting and place it in a cup of water or a cloning medium, such as rockwool. Expose the cutting to 12 hours of light followed by 12 hours of total darkness. The cutting should flower and display its sex — however the plant must be mature enough to present its sex. An immature plant will not show sex because initial calyx development is not photoperiod-related. Plants normally mature around the forth week of vegetative growth because sex is not genetically determined until the third week of growth.This also applies to 'feminized seeds,' which can, and often do, turn out to be male.** If your plants are exhibiting calyx development, then this is a suitable method of determining the plant's sex.

These methods are NOT 100 percent accurate. Later in this Chapter we will explain how to definitively identify the sex of your marijuana plant.
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*http://www.420magazine.com/forums/budding-cycle/81272-female-pre-flowers-flowering.html
 
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mikecanada

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Thanks for all the feedback guys - much appreciated!! This is my "test" plant - where I learn, make mistakes, and educate myself. Next year I'll go full swing. I left my plant in 2in radius plastic seedling cup during it's seeding stage for about a month (probably just under) - my biggest mistake yet I think. It really stunted the growth. Plant would have been much bigger by now if I transferred it sooner. Oh well. Live and learn.

I'll post some more photos when it starts developing more. Thanks again!
 
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