Males show before females?

i am on my 7th week in veg. i plan on vegging for at least 3-4 more weeks. no signs of sex are apparent. i have read that males show usually before females, is that true in most cases? and i have also read that not all females will show preflower pistils in veg, even for several weeks. some strains have to be forced to show????

in many cases this is true. males show before female and usually smell earlier.

ok, anyone else have some info?

well im not very experienced but i vegged for 3 weeks in a micro grow then switched to 12/12 by the end of the second week 1 plant was showing signs of being a male and smelled quite weedy. the other was female but smelled alot less and showed its sex later on. i am pretty sure that it will take between 6 and 8 weeks to show preflwoers unless you are dealing with an auto-flowering strain.

Let's face it . . . as a rule, males (of course, not me) usually come before females. It's NOT cockit science.

loolagigi said:

i am on my 7th week in veg. i plan on vegging for at least 3-4 more weeks. no signs of sex are apparent. i have read that males show usually before females, is that true in most cases? and i have also read that not all females will show preflower pistils in veg, even for several weeks. some strains have to be forced to show????

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I dont think you can tell the sex of the plants until you begin to flower them...

Signs of sex will usually show at the 7th or 8th node,(well at least thats what mine did) Im sure diffrent strains show diffrent things, get yourself a good mag. glass and keep lookin

Interesting topic. I don't know if it is just first grow luck but 7 out of 9 of my plants turned out to be female. The first 4 I found to be female before I could tell any were males. The 5th female showed after 2 more males and then the 6th and 7th fem showed late but I think that was due only having vegged for maybe 2 weeks before 12/12.

whanks for all the input everyone. yeah i have a mag glass, and i have tried to see, but i think its too early. i have a hunch these plants will not show until moved to 12/12. oh well. i will just transplant after i turn to 12/12, and know whats male and female, si i dont put my males and females in 5 gallon pots. what a waste od soil and room. i have 15 plants, and 1 400 hps, so for me to place all of them in bigger pots, i would lose light to them due to spreading them out due to pot sizes. if i can find my hopefully 4-6 females out of my 15, then that would be efficient for my 1 400 watter.

It has been my limited experience that the boys show first. Great topic.