male, or just sativa?

Hello. I have had this baby for about 2 months, started in an Aerogarden, then moved to soil. Then moved outside.

I was curious if the distance between nodes looks more like stretching seen in males, or like it's just talk like a typical sativa?

For reference, the fee is 2' tall, and it is a 2-gallon pot.

Looks like a male to me from the top atleast but it also looks like u have it in cement soil

gunnar&carey said:

Looks like a male to me from the top atleast but it also looks like u have it in cement soil

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Yeah only the top half inch is that dirt. The rest is an actual soil. My buddy added that on top bc when I transplanted tosoil, the portion of stem there began growing roots.

Can u take a better pic of just the top

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It will stretch like that if its not getting enough sunlight. You need at least 8 hours of direct sunlight. You can not tell male/female from the way it grows in veg.... you can guess... but you have a 50/50 chance of being wrong. To tell the sex, we need a pic of the top few nodes to see if its calyxs or pods (if its even showing yet). Also, the leaves on that plant lead me to believe that it is indica dominant, probably a hybrid, those leaves are fat... sativas are much thinner.

Roots on the stem are fine, its healthy. Looks a little yellow down there, I would feed some veg nutes. I agree with Gunner about that top layer of soil.. it looks like clay to me and that is def not good for weed... our girls like lots of oxygen and drainage.

Good luck! You can definitely bring that plant back up to par and get a nice yield. The direct sun is critical.

Qwertypops said:

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still too hard to tell. Do you see white hairs at the top or is that yellow new growth ? (feed her!)

The top growth is pretty tight, did it stretch to get above those pvp pipes and is now getting enough sun?

Pipes were added 3 days ago, so that is a possibility. Also possible my buddy tried to 'hide' it by pulling it under a Palm.

Also possible he left it right where it should be and the stretching may be due to the lack of full sunlight lately. It has rained a lot lately.

I have been meaning to replace the scrappy dirt he threw on top with real soil, so I will probably do that this evening.

This was fed not too long ago, so either it is consuming a ton of nutes, I'm using too small of an amount, or the rain flushed the soil of most of them. As I said, it rains a LOT here.

the rain flushed it for sure if its been raining. Keep an eye on the stretching, if it continues like in the middle, she needs more light. But it looks like she stretched and stopped then grew tighter the last node or two. Yeah, if your buddy put it under a palm, even for a day or two, that would account for the stretch.

I can see something growing at the top so you should be able to tell male/female if you look closely. Tons of pics on here of what early male vs. early female looks like. At the spot where between the leaf stem and new growth, a little nub will grow, boys grow bunches of acorns, one then two then five, etc.... girls get white hairs.

I'm not sure but it looks male... i think i see little green acorns.

Not necessarily sure it's started flowering yet. I've been out of town so I've been going off of pics as well since I built the pvc frame last week. I know about the pistols/pollen sacs, but honestly only from here and a few other forums. Never had a grow since I got my own place, and due to the area I lived in before it was kind of a set it and pray it flowers kind of deal before. This is my first grow I can actually enjoy and manipulate things like nutes/water supply/etc so I am looking forward to it.

I am putting all my eggs one basket here, admittedly, but this is my test run.

cannabisdreams said:

still too hard to tell. Do you see white hairs at the top or is that yellow new growth ? (feed her!)

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Your plant looks indica dominant.

Thought the leaves were a little fat.

I think it just stretched due to the transplant to soil/moving outside at about the same time which caused it to stretch like it did.

I tried to minimize this by adding a small amount of superthrive but it was washed away due to excessive rainfall in my area. Got almost 6" today alone.

Thank you all for your input.

Do you think the pvc frame will be ok for use as a basic SOG or would I be better off just letting it go without it unless I can get some type of netting/mesh?

Yup, it's a boy:

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