Is it possible to tell my plants gender?

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desnugs

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Hello!

These are my first plants i’ve grown, i’ve been basing it off of info from several sources online and i had a few problems in the beginning, but they’re a lot better now. i’m not sure what types of plants they are, as we got them from random nugs we had. So i was wondering when you know if your plant is a female/male? i’ve been having trouble trying to identify, and didn’t know if i had to wait or not until they started budding. other than that, i think my plants are doing pretty well for my first time growing! :) thanks for any input. btw, the pics are two diff plants
 

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Skuxx

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On the first pic it looks like I see some kind of preflowers forming on a node, but it's not zoomed in enough... but it does resemble pollen sacks. Hopefully I'm wrong. The second one I don't see anything yet.
 
weedstoner420

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Too early to tell for sure, but if they are bagseed, were there a bunch of seeds in the bag? Or just the odd one here and there?

If there were a lot, it was likely pollinated by a male and the seeds will be 50/50 male/female. If there were just a few, it's more likely an accidental self-pollination and the plants will be all female (with a tendency towards being hermie).
 
curious2garden

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desnugs said:
Hello!

These are my first plants i’ve grown, i’ve been basing it off of info from several sources online and i had a few problems in the beginning, but they’re a lot better now. i’m not sure what types of plants they are, as we got them from random nugs we had. So i was wondering when you know if your plant is a female/male? i’ve been having trouble trying to identify, and didn’t know if i had to wait or not until they started budding. other than that, i think my plants are doing pretty well for my first time growing! :) thanks for any input. btw, the pics are two diff plants
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When the plants begin to alternate branches you'll see pistils on the females. Boys don't always demonstrate their proclivities prior to shorter length light.
 
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weedstoner420 said:
Too early to tell for sure, but if they are bagseed, were there a bunch of seeds in the bag? Or just the odd one here and there?

If there were a lot, it was likely pollinated by a male and the seeds will be 50/50 male/female. If there were just a few, it's more likely an accidental self-pollination and the plants will be all female (with a tendency towards being hermie).
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it was just the odd seed out here and there, definitely gonna look into buying seeds next time around, but this has been a solid starting run. i’m hoping they come out to be female though!
 
Roy O'Bannon

Roy O'Bannon

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Somebody mentioned yesterday that you could take a cutting off each and flip the cuttings to check sex. Might save you some scrog trouble later.
 
curious2garden

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desnugs said:
I’m not quite sure I understand what you mean unfortunately, can you possibly link the post?
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You cut off a branch put it in a cup of water and put it under 12/12 lights. In about 2 weeks it will let you know if a plant is a male before you have to try to unwrap it out of a scrog net if you scrog :) I don't so it's as easy as bagging the plant and cutting the trunk :)

The caveat is your plant has to be mature enough to develop flowering auxins. You tell that by it's phyllotaxy, alternating branches vs opposing branches
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desnugs

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Hobbes said:
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Fine looking plants.

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curious2garden said:
You cut off a branch put it in a cup of water and put it under 12/12 lights. In about 2 weeks it will let you know if a plant is a male before you have to try to unwrap it out of a scrog net if you scrog :) I don't so it's as easy as bagging the plant and cutting the trunk :)

The caveat is your plant has to be mature enough to develop flowering auxins. You tell that by it's phyllotaxy, alternating branches vs opposing branches
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thank you! I’ll try it out when they’re older for sure. In terms of a scrog net, is it something you recommend?
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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desnugs said:
thank you! I’ll try it out when they’re older for sure. In terms of a scrog net, is it something you recommend?
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I don't use it. But I would recommend scrogging if you need more light. Spreading your canopy will give you a larger harvest vs a lower powered light that won't penetrate.
 
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