first post could use some help!

Hi I'm new to this hole growing thing so i started up 5 plants about 3 1/2 weeks ago there doing great not growing real fast but there growing. I was talking to my brother and he said that my 3 of my plants are males. I told him that there is no way to tell yet. so he says that if there is the 5 parts on the leaves on the on the 3rd set up on the plant its female, and if there is 3 parts on the leaves on the 3rd set up that it is male. i thought that the only way to tell male or female is the 2 white hairs?? does he know what he is talking about? he has grow weed for as long as i could remember but i don't know if he actually knows what he is saying

im pretty sure thats just a coincidence man dont worry, when its time for them to flower, and their preflowers are showing, youll know. good luck hope you get some nice girls

as far as i know your brother is mistaken.

ok thanks man i will put up some pics of my plants in a few days i got high and lost it ha ha. maybe you can give me tips and tell me if i am doing anything wrong

thanks for the help

ya man, you got any questions, shoot 'em my way. im pretty damn good at this now.

when they are 8-10 inchs high you can tell, the males have balls the females do'nt

eskimo said:

when they are 8-10 inchs high you can tell, the males have balls the females do'nt

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hey no offense eskimo, but it really has absolutely nothing to do with how tall they are, its just how far along in there growth cycle they are. usually at around th 4th week of veg they start showing there pre-flowers which show the sex and also let you know they are ready to flower

ok here is one of my plants its 3 1/2 weeks old is it doing good if not can someone give me some tips?

ok i tried to post pics of my plants but they didn't pop up i don't know what i did wrong

ok what If I have aplant that is 9 weeks old and has not yet shown signs of being male or female, yet it sisters all have and are entering the "budding" stage. Why is this one taking so long?................

SmokeDro said:

Hi I'm new to this hole growing thing so i started up 5 plants about 3 1/2 weeks ago there doing great not growing real fast but there growing. I was talking to my brother and he said that my 3 of my plants are males. I told him that there is no way to tell yet. so he says that if there is the 5 parts on the leaves on the on the 3rd set up on the plant its female, and if there is 3 parts on the leaves on the 3rd set up that it is male. i thought that the only way to tell male or female is the 2 white hairs?? does he know what he is talking about? he has grow weed for as long as i could remember but i don't know if he actually knows what he is saying

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Your brother's wrong, although there are trends in vegetative growth that may indicate whether a plant is male or female. I want to emphasize that these are only trends, not rules. Generally, the taller plants with seemingly "sporadic" foliage growth in a garden will become males. This is so that when the pollen sacs develop they can drop more easily into the female plants that are generally below them. Plants that are smaller and have more lateral growth tend to be female. Plants that also undergo large amounts of stress tend to be male or hermaphrodite.

Again I want to emphasize that these are only trends and the only way to determine sex for sure is when you can visually see the male or female organs. Just because one of your plants is tall does not mean it will be a male and vice versa.

SmokeDro said:

does he know what he is talking about? he has grow weed for as long as i could remember but i don't know if he actually knows what he is saying

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He doesn't know what he's talking about I'm afraid - you cannot tell sex from the numbers of fingers on the leaves - only from pre-flowers.

All cannabis plants grow multi-fingered leaves, both male and female. They start out at 1 fingered leaf, next set up is 3, next set up is 5, next set up is 7, next set up is 9, next set up is 11. Some Sativa varieties even produce 13 fingered leaves.