Identifying males

[Budley Doright]

chuck your seedlings into 12/12 for 4 days, eliminate males and return to veg... saves you a lot of aggravation. Baby male flowers look like a tiny hand giving you the finger.

Very fast germing plants with fast-growing long shoots are indeed prone to being male to enable them to pollinate early and from high.

Pollination on day 14 of flower will give much large, stronger seed than day 20... like twice the size.

Are you sure about the seed size thing? I pollinated a few plants this summer and it was strain dependent on seed size. Different moms threw out different size seeds and all were pollinated at the same time. 2-3 weeks in and they were hit. Also all by the same male

 

[Budley Doright]

To wait till hundreds of flowers or pollen sacs turn up at which point you wont need to ask

Oh the old fashion way, good I thought I was missing something. Just when I think I got it, it proves me wrong until I see the ball or pistil lol

 

[Kingrow1]

Oh the old fashion way, good I thought I was missing something. Just when I think I got it, it proves me wrong until I see the ball or pistil lol

New growers are driven to sex early, they should wait the longest imo ~ the old fashioned way

 

[adrenalytic]

Hey all, OP here. One follow up question about sexing plants. How do the plants decide what sex to be? Is it pre-determined at the seed level or does something happen during growth that influences the sex one way or the other?