when to tell sex..

I have 4 plants I've had in flowering for 9 days now, shouldn't I be able to tell the sex around this time or much later? I heard 5-7 days but Idk... one plant is very tall. I've topped an lst all of them, I'm only assuming the tall one OS a male because they grow taller to pollinate smaller females... somone plz help?
 

The Red

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Pictures would help, and I don't know how much help you'll get with a name like that lol. I'm pretty nooby so I couldn't tell what the sex was until about 2 days ago which was like 2 weeks into flowering. I'm still not quite sure if I have a male or not lol. But yea post pics, your vague description isn't going to help anyone
 

Bakatare666

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I have 4 plants I've had in flowering for 9 days now, shouldn't I be able to tell the sex around this time or much later? I heard 5-7 days but Idk... one plant is very tall. I've topped an lst all of them, I'm only assuming the tall one OS a male because they grow taller to pollinate smaller females... somone plz help?
Not true on the height part, I don't think.
The males I've heard do tend to grow a little faster than the females in the early days, but posting pics would really help.
4 out of 4 that I've recently sprouted from bagseed were all females, and there were things that I noticed on all of them all, though it was too early for preflowers or anything.
 

GratefulJoe

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Hey juggalo33x typically once put into 12\12 you should be able to tell sex anywhere from 7-14 days. This is strain dependent of course. I have seen Cinderella99 show sexual preflowers after 6 weeks of veg still in 18/6 light cycle. So i say give it a few more days and it will show. If you have the option to and it turns out to be female taking a clone of her might be a good idea.
 

LeafGnosis

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Hey juggalo33x typically once put into 12\12 you should be able to tell sex anywhere from 7-14 days. This is strain dependent of course. I have seen Cinderella99 show sexual preflowers after 6 weeks of veg still in 18/6 light cycle. So i say give it a few more days and it will show. If you have the option to and it turns out to be female taking a clone of her might be a good idea.
yes, my 2 C'99 started showing pre flowers about 1 day earlier than my blueberry bubble gum. All 4 girls have shown pre-flowers about 5 to 6 weeks into veg. I did have 2 bag seed prior and one shown about 5 weeks into veg, while the other took about 7 days once I flipped to 12/12. I am sure that the bag seeds, being that they were both about 4 years old, were almost to the point that they were not going to germ anymore.

OP: If you can show some pics, you will get a lot more help.. Oh, and for the comical addition; Has ICP finally found out how magnets work? :)
 
haha anyways I'm gonna post pics after 8, they're sleeping right now lol. I haven't seen anything at the nodes yet, although there are new branches popping out in-between which I know come first. I do know what male an female look like and how to spot just thought it was sooner. could be that their a random breed that are late, they are bag seed
 

kryptoniteglo

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I've also found that the longer the plant was in veg, the faster the sex shows. So if you're flipping a young plant, it might take longer. I recently flipped two plants -- same strain, one with 6 weeks veg and one with 5 weeks veg. The 6-week old showed in 6 days; the 5-week old showed in 9.
 
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