Male pollinating female help !

Grower428 · Jul 22, 2016

Hey guys,

I have two plants in a small grow tent at the moment and 1 of the plants is in full pre flower and female, however the other plant has only just started showing signs of pre flower and i am unsure if it is male or female yet. My question is if the 2nd plant does end up being male how long until i have to start worrying about the male pollinating the female? or does this only really start happening in the flower cycle.
Probably a stupid question but better safe than sorry !!!

any help would be great
thanks

silverfoxx · Jul 22, 2016

as soon as you see any seeds on plant get rid of it

Indacouch · Jul 22, 2016

Just remove it as soon as your sure it's male and you'll be fine pretty easy to tell before you run into trouble just keep a close eye ...good luck

Grower428 · Jul 22, 2016

Thanks guys, next 24hrs i should be able to tell, never wanted to see two little white hairs more in my life lol

$bkbbudz$ · Jul 22, 2016

silverfoxx said:
as soon as you see any seeds on plant get rid of it

Ok, seeds will only appear after the flower is pollenated...this is what the OP is trying to avoid.

OP, do some research on the web for what to look for in determining sex of a plant. Once you know what to look for...look for it. Once you see it and are sure you have a boy...mist it and the grow area down to stop pollen from floating. Put a trash bag over him, remove him from the grow area, hack him down and then take a shower before re-entering your grow area.

I hope you got a gurlie though! Good Luck!!

$bkbbudz$ · Jul 22, 2016

BTW...growing feminized genetics greatly increases your chance of growing females. I personally don't buy the 'hype' about higher percentage of hermies with femm'd seeds. I have never ever grown a male or hermie from my feminized growz

KryptoBud · Jul 22, 2016

Grower428 said:
Hey guys,

I have two plants in a small grow tent at the moment and 1 of the plants is in full pre flower and female, however the other plant has only just started showing signs of pre flower and i am unsure if it is male or female yet. My question is if the 2nd plant does end up being male how long until i have to start worrying about the male pollinating the female? or does this only really start happening in the flower cycle.
Probably a stupid question but better safe than sorry !!!

any help would be great
thanks

You'll have plenty of time. If they're the same strain planted at the same time the likely hood of the second plant being female is good. Male plants generally show first.

Grower428 · Jul 22, 2016

$bkbbudz$ said:
BTW...growing feminized genetics greatly increases your chance of growing females. I personally don't by the 'hype' about higher percentage of hermies with femm'd seeds. I have never ever grown a male or hermie from my feminized growz

Thank, a lot of good info, i do know how to tell male/female, i was just worried that if it does turn male it would contaminate the female. and if there was any danger at the start of pre flower. Fingers still crossed. These are just seed i got from a friend, not sure the genetics of them, i have just ordered THC Bomb and LCD seeds which should come next week, both which are feminized, very good to hear about fem seeds no going hermie, i have been ready a lot of "hype" about all that

Grower428 · Jul 22, 2016

KryptoBud said:
You'll have plenty of time. If they're the same strain planted at the same time the likely hood of the second plant being female is good. Male plants generally show first.

Good to hear !!!, they where, 2nd plant however is about a week behind in maturity

Indacouch · Jul 22, 2016

Grower428 said:
Thanks guys, next 24hrs i should be able to tell, never wanted to see two little white hairs more in my life lol

Your not looking for seeds correct???? Your just trying to distinguish male from female as early as possible ....basically trying to sex your plants ??

Grower428 · Jul 22, 2016

Indacouch said:
Your not looking for seeds correct???? Your just trying to distinguish male from female as early as possible ....basically trying to sex your plants ??

Correct, i have 2 plants atm, 1 in which is female( started showing about a 5 days ago) the other plant has only just hit the pre flower stage in the last 24hrs but has fully shown sex yet, i was just worried if it did turn male it would somehow start turning to the other male or pollinate it somehow, just need to make sure that i had plently of time to remove it if it showed male pre flower before anything happened to the female

Indacouch · Jul 22, 2016

Grower428 said:
Correct, i have 2 plants atm, 1 in which is female( started showing about a 5 days ago) the other plant has only just hit the pre flower stage in the last 24hrs but has fully shown sex yet, i was just worried if it did turn male it would somehow start turning to the other male or pollinate it somehow, just need to make sure that i had plently of time to remove it if it showed male pre flower before anything happened to the female

Gotch ya that's what I thought ...ya just keep an eye you'll see the male in plenty of time if you stay diligent and it won't have time to hurt anything ....good luck

MonkeyGrinder · Jul 23, 2016

Yeah not to mention it takes quite some time for the male to actually produce pollen and drop it. You'll see balls. Then they'll start to multiply rapidly. I've seen the term grapes, balls. They do kinda look like a cluster of grapes if they go for long enough. On a side note out of the regular seeds I've grown males are always the first to show. I'm not saying it's a set in stone thing but they seem to start pushing off balls slightly faster than females. Like outdoors they generally start a week beforehand for me. I've sexed a few plants with a 2 week veg then flip and males were a good week ahead. Same with 12/12 from seed.
From what I've read you've got a window of around 10 days before they start dropping pollen after they show. I've kept one around after a week and you can damn well tell then.

silverfoxx · Jul 23, 2016

$bkbbudz$ said:
Ok, seeds will only appear after the flower is pollenated...this is what the OP is trying to avoid.

OP, do some research on the web for what to look for in determining sex of a plant. Once you know what to look for...look for it. Once you see it and are sure you have a boy...mist it and the grow area down to stop pollen from floating. Put a trash bag over him, remove him from the grow area, hack him down and then take a shower before re-entering your grow area.

I hope you got a gurlie though! Good Luck!!

unless its a hermie

Alienwidow · Jul 23, 2016

Male vs female? We need pics

Grower428 · Jul 23, 2016

"These pics where taken about 6 hrs ago now. Pic of both of them together (right one being female) and the 2nd pic is of the left ones pre flower, bulb is showing but hasn't developed the white hairs or "balled up" for male

Grower428 · Jul 23, 2016

MonkeyGrinder said:
Yeah not to mention it takes quite some time for the male to actually produce pollen and drop it. You'll see balls. Then they'll start to multiply rapidly. I've seen the term grapes, balls. They do kinda look like a cluster of grapes if they go for long enough. On a side note out of the regular seeds I've grown males are always the first to show. I'm not saying it's a set in stone thing but they seem to start pushing off balls slightly faster than females. Like outdoors they generally start a week beforehand for me. I've sexed a few plants with a 2 week veg then flip and males were a good week ahead. Same with 12/12 from seed.
From what I've read you've got a window of around 10 days before they start dropping pollen after they show. I've kept one around after a week and you can damn well tell then.

Yeah that's what i thought, i didn't think i be in much danger at such an early stage of pre flower but wanted to make sure, last thing i'd want to do is contaminate the female. I'll be getting rid of it as soon as its shown 100%, don't want to take any changes lol that is if it does turn male, looking more female for what i can tell atm but still again, very early

$bkbbudz$ · Jul 23, 2016

silverfoxx said:
unless its a hermie

What are you talking about? A hermie will have both male and female sex parts and show those before seeds develop within the budz. Apparently you need to do some research on basic botany.

$bkbbudz$ · Jul 23, 2016

I am reasonably sure that is a calyx. you may see hairs by the time you read this...

Grower428 · Jul 23, 2016

$bkbbudz$ said:
I am reasonably sure that is a calyx. you may see hairs by the time you read this...View attachment 3739452

Its a girl !!! well i'm pretty sure anyway, pistils have only just started showing, i will post a pic in a few hrs when they have developed a little more.

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