male or female ??

jenafire · #1 11-13-2006, 08:38 PM

How do I tell the difference between a male and female plant and how old does the plant need to be to tell?

Merciless_One · #2 11-13-2006, 08:47 PM

The way to tell , is that when the plant starts to flower , you will either see little white hairs popping up (this is a female), or you will see little small round sacs (this is male).

The age of the plant doesn't really do much to tell you the sex, you have to wait until it starts to flower (outdoors...this is usually sept-oct.), indoors...it's whenever you change the light cycle to 12/12.

jenafire · #3 11-13-2006, 09:04 PM

ok, thank-you!

Teknique70 · #4 11-13-2006, 09:06 PM

once you start the 12/12 cycle it will take at least 7 days to tell but most likely 10 days and the longest 14 days to tell male from female

-Tek

teamsamson888 · #5 04-06-2007, 02:07 AM

mine have white hairs and few little balls there like 3months old is that a hermaphrodite???

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3598/dsc00201rr2.jpg

heres a better view on that same plant.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1461/dsc00202qp7.jpg
herm??
and will it bud?

joekikass · #6 04-06-2007, 02:12 AM

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Those are definitely ballz get rid of it ...

Al B. Fuct · #7 04-06-2007, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by teamsamson888

mine have white hairs and few little balls there like 3months old is that a hermaphrodite???

Sure is.

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Originally Posted by teamsamson888

and will it bud?

Yes, but the buds will be sparse, have poor potency and will have seeds from self-pollination. Seeds from self-pol may or may not be viable, more often than not are sterile or simply hollow.

Compost it!

babygro · #8 04-06-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Al B. Fuct

Yes, but the buds will be sparse, have poor potency and will have seeds from self-pollination.

Where do you get this stuff from?

Why will the buds be sparse? Why will they have poor potency? Why will it have seeds from self-pollination if he removes all the pollen sacks before they can open?

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Originally Posted by Al B. Fuct

Seeds from self-pol may or may not be viable, more often than not are sterile or simply hollow.

Eh? How do you work this out? Did you know that feminised seeds are actually produced from hermaphrodite plants? On what basis can you say self-pollinated seeds will be sterlie, non-viable or hollow?

babygro · #9 04-06-2007, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by jenafire

How do I tell the difference between a male and female plant and how old does the plant need to be to tell?

As others have said, females produce 'hair like' pistils and males produce sacks or balls.

Regarding 'when can you tell' this really does depend on two things 1) Variety and 2) How long the plant has been vegged for. The longer the plant is in vegetative growth, the more chance you have of it producing differentiated pre-flowers. Most plants will produce pre-flowers by the third or fourth week of vegetative growth, but usually these are so tiny you simply cannot differentiate them into male or female preflowers. Some varieties will show you in vegetative growth what sex they are, some you have to wait until the second week of 12/12 for them to show. Males usually show before females.

teamsamson888 · #10 04-06-2007, 12:20 PM

so i should pull off the balls or junk it there florida seeds...