actually its not a month maybe pushing two and a half or three weeks... including germination but yeah i want to put it in something a bit bigger but don't want to shock it. no i don't know if its a female yet(though i'd like to think so) i'm going to try this thing that i read that is supposed to increase the odds of getting a female. you apparently get some banana peals or something and put it around the main stem... don't know if its legit yet, anyone heard anything about it? its supposed to significantly increase the odds... 60 to 80 percent or something but i guess some people say it works 100 percent of the time.