Can you "micro sex"/"early sexing"?... High rez. close-up pics inside!..

Wolfman Zen

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Heard there is a way to early sex your plants at about 2-3 weeks... well here are some pics of my girls (I hope)

Can you tell anything?


"Up Skirt" pics =]












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smppro

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I font think you can tell anything yet, what nodes are those? If there are any signs they should start at about the 7th node.
 

GET RIPPED!!!!!

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if your growing in a room and want to sex them turn your light to 24hrs for about a week. them put them outside for a couple days or in the dark for a few 12hr incremants. this will cause them to flower immediatley showing sex. then just put them back under the light
 

meathook666

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Ok... whats going on here?.....


The girls are doing great! Although "Wind" and "Esperansa" have me worried cuz they may be showing me early signs of being males =[

"Wind" and her ball is bigger =[



"Esperansa".. Now she is starting to show a mini-ball too =[




Nothing new with Spirit or Star.





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my males showed earlier too, i got rid of them at your stage..couldnt stand even mini-balls..:twisted:
 

Wolfman Zen

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if your growing in a room and want to sex them turn your light to 24hrs for about a week. them put them outside for a couple days or in the dark for a few 12hr incremants. this will cause them to flower immediatley showing sex. then just put them back under the light
Well they had been in 18/6.... but have been in 12/12 just shy of a week.

So you are saying to switch to 24 hours of light for a week, then switch to 12/12. I don't want to chance a hermy at this point, but will keep it in mind for next time.

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kaos.underwave

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100%? Hell no. Until something's hanging off on a stalk, it could go either way. They wont drop pollen yet anyhows, so unless you really need the space I would wait and see if they start to dangle, or grow a pistil.

Conversely, they are a little on the big side, and generally males do show a lot earlier...

If it doesnt hurt to wait see, dont go killing any just yet.

"if your growing in a room and want to sex them turn your light to 24hrs for about a week. them put them outside for a couple days or in the dark for a few 12hr incremants. this will cause them to flower immediatley showing sex. then just put them back under the light"

I really dont think messing with the plants like this is a good idea. Not only will it NOT happen immediately, IME messing with hormones in this way can sometimes seriously stunt growth. Either way it takes time for the plant to switch from one mode to another...this depends on strain, but it could be anywhere from a week to a month to switch forwards and backwards like this.

There is another technique you could try [if you wished to clarify sex earlier], which is detailed somewhere on here more clearly, but it is essentially to use a black bag to keep a single branch in darkness, for anywhere between 12 and 24 hours a day, depending on what stage youre at; this allows hormones to build up locally causing a single branch to flower earlier than the rest of the plant, which minimises the time and problems you might encounter doing unnatural things to the whole plant; all the while the rest of the plant enjoys and makes the most of its valuable light time, without interruption. The sex of flowered branch will be the sex of the plant.

IMO it isnt necessary to speed things up this time, as if some are starting to show the others wont be far behind. But I wouldnt go messing them up next time or even bothering to interrupt normal growth when its far easier to flower and reveg a single branch. [If you really have to]. GETRIPPED try this next time too, your plants will grow and finish a lot quicker, I promise!

gd luck getting females anyhow... :)
 

NoDrama

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Needs more time to be definitive, I wouldn't even gander a guess at this stage. I love these posts though, you get some people who swear 100% certainty they can tell male from female at 20 paces on plants 2 days from germination.

You would be amazed at how many females have been culled from the crop just cuz someone guessed it was a male. Calyxes look just like balls until Pistils start appearing. Give it more time, you will know for sure then.
 

Wolfman Zen

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Great responses guys... thanks =]

and Kaos... flowering just one branch to check for sex is an excellent idea! =]

Well I kept to my agenda, and have 2 clones from each plant.. I will continue to flower them all until sex is obvious... keeping a close eye on any other changes. I will post all new changes that may have to do with sex here. I'm taking notes, to get a better idea on how to sex plants early.

Thanks again.
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kaos.underwave

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hehe maybe you just have balls on the brain meaty :)
only kidding...
to be honest, even if I thought they were balls, I would wait until I was 100%,
deny the truth as long as possible...until I have to accept it and then chop chop.

"You would be amazed at how many females have been culled from the crop just cuz someone guessed it was a male. Calyxes look just like balls until Pistils start appearing. Give it more time, you will know for sure then."
Yeah it depends which end the long wiggly bit comes out. You will know very soon, dont worry!
 

ianTE

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going from veg to flower and back to veg can cause great stress to the plant.
take a clone and force that to flower
good luck
 

masterpiece

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Wait a little longer, it will be much more obvious soon! When the calyxes start forming, I agree they usually can look like balls, because they have a similar formation biologically, just like two opposite sexes from any species. Don't kill them until you know, because the pollen glands take awhile to form, so you're not in danger of fertilization!
 

Wolfman Zen

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Thanks for the replies guys... and I have already taken 2 clones from each plant... the plants them selfs will continue to flower until they are done or male... this way, no matter what happens I have already have clones, so i'm safe there.. As you can see in that last pic.. the balls have changed... I will try to post updates here every 3 days or so, and keep this thread going for I see how it will be helpful to many.

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kaos.underwave

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dammit it is getting a bit tense in here...

its like an androgynous striptease,
close to the end, soon
you'll either be cheering and clapping
or recoiling in horror
 
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