Telling Sex By Smell

This technique is not for amateurs!
How can you tell if you have a male or female while in veg?
You first need to have at least two plants of the same strain. Both plants need to be about 2 feet tall for the scent to be strong enough. Some strains work even earlier.

The Steps;
1. place your finger around the main stem of the plant
2. rub it up and down to get the scent on your hand
3. smell it!

what's the difference? a male plant will have a more aggressive smell, while a female has a much gentler, prettier smell if you will. You need the two plants in order to have something to compare against. Once your familiar with the strains smell. you can judge a male or female before it even shows any noticable signs of sex.


Allow me to be more clear about this post, first I should have titled it "judging sex by smell"
I did not start this post to argue with damn kids, it is to inform all the intelligent growers out there that are interested. It does work and the proof is in ALL plants not just weed.
I don't care what opinion you kids have...

ultranyte thank you for this advice, i just went and tried it. Once you understand the two diffe3rent smells it gets quite easy. great advice.

Really? I dunno about that. I'd like to hear more comments.

What do you mean? you need people to tell you what to think?

get out to your veg room and test it out!

great assessment i've always done this but never put any thought into it though. u r right cause all my males had a nasty stinky smell and females always were sweeter in smell never too pungeant.thanx for advise that is something that i will test all this growing season

ultranyte said:

What do you mean? you need people to tell you what to think?

get out to your veg room and test it out!

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Why would I have any confirmed males around to smell? Hopefully, I'll never get to test it ;P

i have noticed that males tend to have a more pungent skunky smell, but i wouldnt rely on just this and start pullin plants

It funny that you mention this. I have noticed lately that 2 out of my 3 plants have a much stronger smell. I was wondering if that was possibly a sign of sex. I will have to see what they turn out to be to test this out.

i hope no one is tossin out plants because of this, its not very reliable.

I bet different pheno's smell different too so c'mon wait till you see something before you chop. unless your blind

imma go wit wordz on this one.....its koo to use this method n all but to play it safe wait till you actually see something...........

I always liked waiting for hairs. Never seen da nuts

Tokesalot said:

I always liked waiting for hairs. Never seen da nuts

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x2 on that, congrats 420th post!!!!......................

I'm not sure, I tried it with my cheese babies... I have 4 fem's and 3 males... The males at first sniff don't smell the fem's reek, then if I scratch the stems, they all reek (none softer then other...) damn smell is stuck to my nose now.... I dunno maybe the Cheese is too stinky to do this test with.

People please!
This procedure is to give you heads up with sexes you have.
I'm not saying your should be pulling plants based on this unless you've really trained yourself!
me for example I have pretty much mastered the scent of Northern lights #5, I can tell a female or male way before any signs.

where not smellin pussy here guys.
i have 5 different females and some males from sets of seed
one of my strains is almost odorless female the male plant smelled the same
another female i got smells skunky the male from that same seed lot smells skunky.
there is no ay of telling what sex by smelling.
maybe close your eyes and point you got a 50 / 50 shot maybe you've been lucky

Well ok then... ignoring that stupid comment

As i stated before, this is not for amateurs. You need to be aware of what your looking for. As the above states, those are the results you get when you don't know what your doing.

I had two plants...one of them had the skunk smell and outgrew the other from early on....the other was almost odorless and shorter....The skunk turned out to be male and the odorless one was female and is just starting to smell like bud....1 week into 12/12....Hmmmm

JohnnyBravo said:

I had two plants...one of them had the skunk smell and outgrew the other from early on....the other was almost odorless and shorter....The skunk turned out to be male and the odorless one was female and is just starting to smell like bud....1 week into 12/12....Hmmmm

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some strains r harder to determine early on. u have wait until they mature,but it varies from strain to strain. like ultranyte said "this is not for amateurs. You need to be aware of what your looking for. As the above states, those are the results you get when you don't know what your doing."

so now we're rapping on this site?