does this look male

hi guys my friends sent me this pic of a 24 day old kush auto and if im honest its worrying me seams very thin and little amount of foliage my guess is its possible male what are ur thoughts its been grown under cfl with it very close so deffo not streching this one here is from same pack same age this one looks female and pushes me more to thinking this tall one a male he said he has 2 long and 5 short could be genetics but soon as i saw that first pic i got a bad feeling ur thoughts ...

Would have to wait until the preflowers show before you would be able to tell 100%.

think ill send him that pic mate cheers just got a bad feeling for his sake i hope it is male coz its not likely to yield much lol hes a first timer might do vote on it lol see who is right by first sight

Personally I would have to agree with Shady on this one, that you wont know for sure until pre flowers show. If they are all the same strain, it could be that he has a couple different phenotypes as well. Hard to tell from the photos, but based on what I can see of the leaf structure it appears one leans more sativa dominate, with longer skinnier leaves(this being the tall one) and the other seems to have much wider leaves which leads me to believe it leans more to an indica dom.

see this makes sense i guess im a newbie to it all just doesnt seam to be much there when it does flip even tho he says its taller than any other hes had hes not took any leafs away and node spacing looks terrible like it doesnt need to grow bud if u know what i mean told him to keep eyes on it and sent him ur advice thankyou very much guys and these 2 pics both grew side by side gonna call over next week and have a nosey round as hes a new guy whos done no research at all has 7 auto kush and currently flowering 12 feminised kush aswell so hate to see one or 2 dud autos do his whole crop over

I'm definitely no expert, as I am new to growing as well. I'm not as familiar with Autos either, but if it is an auto I'm assuming it was purchased, thus lowering the chance of it being male. Never seen male autos before, wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having an auto?

If it were a photoperiod bean and it were my I'd bend it and tie it down, this would result in the side branches growing straight up towards the light and could help bush it out a little. However, not sure this would be recommended for an auto or not. If they are autos though I'd run them on an 18/6 or 20/4 light cycle as there is no reason to flip lights for autos.

yea thats what hes been with the lights 20/4 know of a few cases that they was herm before not male my appologies i misquoted

Herms are technically possibly with any seed, but seems to be less likely with Regular seeds vs feminized. However, most times that plant herm tthere seems to be other factors that have caused stress to the plant during it flowering cycle, which can result in the plant going hermit. Some of the research I have read actually discuss how in general, marijuana's biological make up makes it lean bisexual as well. Also if they do hermie you can separate them out from the females to prevent any additional pollination of the girls, but from my readings the seeds off the hermie will be feminized. I have read this in many place, but don't take my word on this as any type of gospel!

may be worth mentioning this guess they would be fem auto then be awesome that ill do some research at worst get him to convert his small veg tent and give it a cfl of its own be worth it just in seed value

budulyk said:

may be worth mentioning this guess they would be fem auto then be awesome that ill do some research at worst get him to convert his small veg tent and give it a cfl of its own be worth it just in seed value

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The way I look at growing in general is that YOU don't KNOW until your try it. Even if others swear by it or preach it constantly doesn't mean the its 100% factual. This is why I have basically deemed my first couple grows as straight experimenting. Might cost a little more up front as I probably won't get the best yields possible, but by trying different things I can find what works for ME. Every grower has there own system that works for them. Some swear it has to be hydro, others swear by a specific nutrient line, but most people adjust there systems until the see the results they want. Even then I feel that there is always room for improvement and to learn new things!