Grow number two, making space

[BudGoodman]

When are you going to flip?

 

[amekins]

When are you going to flip?

Well, I’m in no hurry since the autoflower is already doing her thing, the other small plant is going to veg a but and have some clones taken from it eventually, and the other big plant has already been cloned and so I’m tempted to try putting it into darkness for 18-24 hours and see if that will force gender without herming. If it’s female and herms, I still have the clone. But I suspect it’s male. In other words, it’s going to be a while.

 

[beluga]

Well, I’m in no hurry since the autoflower is already doing her thing, the other small plant is going to veg a but and have some clones taken from it eventually, and the other big plant has already been cloned and so I’m tempted to try putting it into darkness for 18-24 hours and see if that will force gender without herming. If it’s female and herms, I still have the clone. But I suspect it’s male. In other words, it’s going to be a while.

In my experience, with the varieties I've run, the males always show earlier... often much.. to the point that I can determine the females before preflowers even happen.
Not a rule, of course. And I'm sure it differs with the variety.

Have you poked around at their nodes much yet?

 

[amekins]

I’ve been poking and peering at their crotches for a couple of weeks. I suspect it’s male but I’m not absolutely certain. The autoflower seed I germinated two days later is already flowering.

 

[amekins]

I’ve been poking and peering at their crotches for a couple of weeks. I suspect it’s male but I’m not absolutely certain. The autoflower seed I germinated two days later is already flowering.

PS—I’m sure there’s a joke in there about my ability to identify a real male lol based on my track record.

 

[One drop]

Here’s a set of balls developing ive clipped away the bigger leaves so I can get easy access to the pollen when the time is right

 

[amekins]

Here’s a set of balls developing ive clipped away the bigger leaves so I can get easy access to the pollen when the time is right

No full on balls yet, but zero pistils either.

 

[Grownsince95]

Would the older or the newer parts of the plant show sex first? Like the preflowers lower down be more developed?

 

[amekins]

Sweet

Would the older or the newer parts of the plant show sex first? Like the preflowers lower down be more developed?

Sweetheart I have lovingly stroked every fucking leaf on every fucking node all up and down it’s limbs. Nada.

 

[BudGoodman]

If a boy.. It's a nice one.
I'm seeing a little resin already.
What's the nose like?

 

[amekins]

If a boy.. It's a nice one.
I'm seeing a little resin already.
What's the nose like?

That plant is the same strain I grew outside all summer and I never really noticed it much. So I’m not sure if it’s just because it’s inside or if it’s the other plants, but even with the carbon filter it smells a bit like weed when you walk in.

 

[Moshmen]

Would the older or the newer parts of the plant show sex first? Like the preflowers lower down be more developed?

Newer mayb not the newest, but towards the top usually first- I look at the whole plant sometimes ya just know or at least I think I do. Lmao

 

[One drop]

I watch the way the nodes are spaced and there orientation side by side nodes normally are female and and obtuse nodes normally male in my humbled experience........

 

[beluga]

I usually notice my preflowers around the fourth or fifth node. Which I presume is when they start their hormone change.
Like a trash stache on a 10 year old.

 

[BudGoodman]

That plant is the same strain I grew outside all summer and I never really noticed it much. So I’m not sure if it’s just because it’s inside or if it’s the other plants, but even with the carbon filter it smells a bit like weed when you walk in.

Smelling like weed is good.

 

[BudGoodman]

The Chem crosses I'm growing out now are starting to show preflowers on the sixth and seventh sets of branches.

 

[Hortulanus]

The Chem crosses I'm growing out now are starting to show preflowers on the sixth and seventh sets of branches.

yeah I’d say between fifth and seventh nodes I notice them.
I agree with whoever said it earlier in the thread usually dudes show early for me and girls can be shy.
dudes love showing off their balls.

 

[Flexnerb]

Oughta make a drone service. Then you can pay potheads in weed to basically play video games all day.
But you know kids would be in the streets like...

Thats where they should be...or getting dirty in the great outdoors!

 

[Flexnerb]

Well, I’m in no hurry since the autoflower is already doing her thing, the other small plant is going to veg a but and have some clones taken from it eventually, and the other big plant has already been cloned and so I’m tempted to try putting it into darkness for 18-24 hours and see if that will force gender without herming. If it’s female and herms, I still have the clone. But I suspect it’s male. In other words, it’s going to be a while.

May i see a a good close up pic of the plants you're determining sex of?

 

[Aqua Man]

Same as @Moshmen I find usually the first indications on the main stalk about 2 nodes down from the tip. Not always though. And I generally don't bother looking until the nodes start to alternate. But have seen them before they start to also.