adrenalytic
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Or are they one and the same? Once you see it's a female, flowering is inevitable?
Can you identify the sex of a plant and then keep it from flowering?
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xtsho
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You can induce flowering with a 12/12 light schedule and when the plant shows sex you can put it back on a veg light cycle. It will extend the growth cycle as the plant has to revert back to vegetative growth.
adrenalytic
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And you can keep it in veg indefinitely to take clones from, correct?
Chemically altered
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Yes sir!
adrenalytic
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Thanks!
adrenalytic
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Sorry. One follow up question. If you keep the plant in 18/6, it will never show its' sex organs?
klx
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A plant will show sex in veg once it reaches sexual maturity which usually takes at least a month from seed. Do a search for sexing plants and you will see examples what to look for. Its a bit tricky at first but once you have some experience it gets easier.
Basically you are looking for 2 white hairs on the pre flower (female) or a little pod on a stalk (male).
Basically you are looking for 2 white hairs on the pre flower (female) or a little pod on a stalk (male).
Chemically altered
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Yes it will it just takes a few weeks in veg.
adrenalytic
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Ok, a friend of mine is telling me you can't see the sex until you go into flower. Is she dumb?
xtsho
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No she's not wrong. Some plants will show in veg. Some won't show until light induced.
CannaBruh
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She is inexperienced.
The longer in veg they go the more pronounced the pre-flowers will become. Give them time they will show what they are.
Have never found a plant that wouldn't eventually show, maybe they exist but they must be very very elusive and an exception/outlier.
The longer in veg they go the more pronounced the pre-flowers will become. Give them time they will show what they are.
Have never found a plant that wouldn't eventually show, maybe they exist but they must be very very elusive and an exception/outlier.
Chemically altered
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She’s not dumb. Lol but that’s not true.
xtsho
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I've had them go three months without showing until they were in 12/12. But then I've also had males start flowering after a month under 24 hours of light. Since I want males I just grow them to the size I want and then flip them.
adrenalytic
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How do you know which are which?
CannaBruh
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They all will show... eventually, it might take many months however typically by the 5th or 6th node in veg they can be identified in veg.
adrenalytic
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Thanks for the answers yall. My friend is very humbled to find that she was incorrect regarding sexual identification of marijuana plants.
adrenalytic
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Why are males harder to spot than females? From the vids I've seen on youtube, it looks pretty obvious what's male and what's female.
NeWcS
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It is, in flower...
adrenalytic
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Alright man, be cryptic. I'll ask elsewhere.