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jenafire

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How do I tell the difference between a male and female plant and how old does the plant need to be to tell?
 
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Merciless_One

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The way to tell , is that when the plant starts to flower , you will either see little white hairs popping up (this is a female), or you will see little small round sacs (this is male).

The age of the plant doesn't really do much to tell you the sex, you have to wait until it starts to flower (outdoors...this is usually sept-oct.), indoors...it's whenever you change the light cycle to 12/12.
 
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Teknique70

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once you start the 12/12 cycle it will take at least 7 days to tell but most likely 10 days and the longest 14 days to tell male from female

-Tek
 
babygro

babygro

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Al B. Fuct said:
Yes, but the buds will be sparse, have poor potency and will have seeds from self-pollination.
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Where do you get this stuff from?

Why will the buds be sparse? Why will they have poor potency? Why will it have seeds from self-pollination if he removes all the pollen sacks before they can open?

Al B. Fuct said:
Seeds from self-pol may or may not be viable, more often than not are sterile or simply hollow.
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Eh? How do you work this out? Did you know that feminised seeds are actually produced from hermaphrodite plants? On what basis can you say self-pollinated seeds will be sterlie, non-viable or hollow?
 
babygro

babygro

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jenafire said:
How do I tell the difference between a male and female plant and how old does the plant need to be to tell?
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As others have said, females produce 'hair like' pistils and males produce sacks or balls.

Regarding 'when can you tell' this really does depend on two things 1) Variety and 2) How long the plant has been vegged for. The longer the plant is in vegetative growth, the more chance you have of it producing differentiated pre-flowers. Most plants will produce pre-flowers by the third or fourth week of vegetative growth, but usually these are so tiny you simply cannot differentiate them into male or female preflowers. Some varieties will show you in vegetative growth what sex they are, some you have to wait until the second week of 12/12 for them to show. Males usually show before females.
 
Al B. Fuct

Al B. Fuct

once had a dog named
babygro said:
Where do you get this stuff from?
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10+ years of growing plants that occasionally come up with a few male flowers.

Why will the buds be sparse?
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That's the nature of hermaphroditic buds.

Why will they have poor potency?
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Female flowers which have been pollinated stop producing THC once pollinated.
Why will it have seeds from self-pollination if he removes all the pollen sacks before they can open?
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Fat chance getting ALL of the male flowers off a hermie plant. It only takes ONE male flower spreading pollen all over the place to pollinate a whole plant.

Eh? How do you work this out?
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10+ years of growing plants that occasionally come up with a few male flowers.
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Did you know that feminised seeds are actually produced from hermaphrodite plants?
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Um, no. Feminised seeds are usually produced by exposing the seeds to a hormone solution.

Seeds from a herm (those which are viable), will indeed have a greater chance to be female. However, a female plant grown from such seeds is still a female and will grow normally. If it goes hermaphroditic, it will have the same problems as any other herm.

On what basis can you say self-pollinated seeds will be sterlie, non-viable or hollow?
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Once more with feeling!

10+ years of growing plants that occasionally come up with a few male flowers.
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babygro

babygro

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Al B. Fuct said:
That's the nature of hermaphroditic buds.
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Hermaphrodite plants produce just as many buds as any other female plant - they just happen to produce male ones as well. There's nothing 'sparse' about it.

Al B. Fuct said:
Female flowers which have been pollinated stop producing THC once pollinated.
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Rubbish pure and simple. Why do you think Cannabis plants produce resin in the first place? To protect their seed pods for gods sake, so if they get pollinated they produce resin not stop producing it!

Al B. Fuct said:
Fat chance getting ALL of the male flowers off a hermie plant. It only takes ONE male flower spreading pollen all over the place to pollinate a whole plant..
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It depends on the plant does it not? Some produce very few male flowers and it's not that hard to see them and take them off.

Al B. Fuct said:
Um, no. Feminised seeds are usually produced by exposing the seeds to a hormone solution.
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Wrong again. The gibberlic acid hormone is used to produce male flowers on a selected female plant so it can self-pollinate itself. The pollination is not affected by the gibberlic acid at all, it simply self pollinates itself and produces seeds in the normal way. Only pure males can give the X chromosome, females the y, so if the female is pollinated by a female it does not get the male chromosome and therefore it can only be female or hermaphrodite.

Al B. Fuct said:
Seeds from a herm (those which are viable), will indeed have a greater chance to be female. However, a female plant grown from such seeds is still a female and will grow normally. If it goes hermaphroditic, it will have the same problems as any other herm.
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ALL feminsed seeds can be female or genetic hermaphrodite, there's about a 10-20% chance of getting a genetic hermaphrodite from feminsed seeds.

Al B. Fuct said:
Once more with feeling!
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Then I politely suggest you pay more attention, because for someone of your 'supposed experience' you seem to produce an awful lot of misinformation.
 
Al B. Fuct

Al B. Fuct

once had a dog named
babygro said:
Hermaphrodite plants produce just as many buds as any other female plant - they just happen to produce male ones as well. There's nothing 'sparse' about it.
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'sparse' refers to the density of the buds, not the quantity of buds.

Rubbish pure and simple. Why do you think Cannabis plants produce resin in the first place? To protect their seed pods for gods sake, so if they get pollinated they produce resin not stop producing it!
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What has resin production got to do with this discussion? Could you please pay attention and not run off on nutzo tangents? Talk about rubbish!

It depends on the plant does it not? Some produce very few male flowers and it's not that hard to see them and take them off.
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Fat chance getting ALL of them. If you have a genetic herm and not simply inducing some hermaphrodism through poor treatment/light leaks/etc, male flowers will be in just about every floral cluster.

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Then I politely suggest you pay more attention, because for someone of your 'supposed experience' you seem to produce an awful lot of misinformation.
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Someone who can't understand a description of 'sparse' should not even attempt to solve other's problems. :roll:
 
bigbudeddie

bigbudeddie

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Al B. Fuct said:
Sure is.



Yes, but the buds will be sparse, have poor potency and will have seeds from self-pollination. Seeds from self-pol may or may not be viable, more often than not are sterile or simply hollow.

Compost it!
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Im pretty sure thats not the case. The Bud wil be just as potent. The development of male flowers around the female's will not reduce resin production. U will just simply have seeds and male flowers with your bud. Peace
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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No females flower later than males generally speaking. So there's a small window when you can thin out the males. I like to experiment with males but keep them in a different area all together.
 
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