Preliminary sexing

Seamaiden

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #1

I will do my best to get photos, but the camera that works can only get in so tight. I don't know how to take photos using my recently found jeweler's loupe (10x), along with a tiny Mag flashlight, or I would show you what I can see. I'm gonna work on pix, in the meantime, here's what I have (they're pretty weird). These were taken with a Canon DSLR (Rebel series I think), with the lens turned around for that super macro shot!

 

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Seamaiden

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #2

Here are some more...

 

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Seamaiden

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #3

These are pretty much only of the same two or three plants, as I was experimenting with using the lens backwards like this. Also, it was rather breezy, definitely easier to look closely when there's no breeze, like in the evening, when there's no light.

 

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honkeytown

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #4

hey seamaiden...looks like I see a male in the second to last pic...can you get more pics like that one of the others?

 

Seamaiden

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #5

Man, I was all busy puttin' up more pix, and something just HOSED. It's getting cold and late so I'm gonna be turning in for tonight. Yeah, I've found some definite males and I'm getting a good idea of how much culling I'll be doing. I have to say that I'm glad for it, as they get bigger they take up a lot more room and require more and more attention. More pix to come tomorrow, honkey.

 

Seamaiden

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #6

Oh and hey, yeah, pic #2, of the first set, look on the upper right. Could those be girly hairs JUST forming? I know it's difficult, I get no depth of field using the lens this way.

 

honkeytown

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• Jun 30, 2008

• #7

it could be in the second pic...i was actually thinking I saw a pod on the left hand side of that one but didnt say anything cause I just couldnt tell. that's alright though. i will be here when the new pics hit. sleep well now you have more room for connies! YAY

 

Seamaiden

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #8

Some more photos. Some of these plants aren't showing any pre-flowers at all. Others.. what they're showing is bringing me to question myself. I've tried my best to take good pix, and to keep them somewhat organized (doesn't help me if someone says, "That's a male" and I can't remember which figgin' plant it is). This is probably gonna take a little while, but I'm starting with just a couple of the plants whose sex I am uncertain about.

I am starting with Plant No. 5.

 

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Seamaiden

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #9

Another plant of indeterminate sex. Female? Male? Are those even pre-flowers I'm looking at? I have been looking at different nodes, and only seem to find anything that looks like pre-flowers in the more recent growth. Thusly, all these photos are of the "higher" nodes (more recently grown on the main stem/stalk).

 

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Last edited: Jul 1, 2008

honkeytown

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #10

plant five looks male....all the others are too early to determine...wait it out a bit...but the good news is males show sooner than females so...get the male out and you will probably have females left for the most part

 

Seamaiden

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• Jul 2, 2008

• #11

Thanks Mr. Honkeytown. I'll be making further genital inspections today. Some of the plants are not showing sex organs at all, which is frustrating. Show me your wees, dammit!

The girls I have are unmistakable. Many of the boys, however, I keep wondering whether or not I'm IDing them right or not.

 

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hybrid

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• Aug 23, 2008

• #12

I wish I could tell what the hell you guys are looking at. All I see is a nub of growth coming out of a node. How can you see any sex organs at all?

 

Seamaiden

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• Aug 23, 2008

• #13

hybrid said:

I wish I could tell what the hell you guys are looking at. All I see is a nub of growth coming out of a node. How can you see any sex organs at all?

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You can't. NOW that I've been able to get them through puberty, I realize I was not looking at what I was hoping I was looking at. Or something like that. Most of those plants are dead now as it is, only three of the original 25 remain, though one lady, an LST graduate, is quite fetching, so she's been cloned.

Now that I can actually see balls and hairs, it's SO f'ing easy to tell. I was getting good practice playing with the camera lens flipped around, though.