Please help sex ID

urbanP0ison

New Member
Hello everyone, and happy New Year!

This is my first post, and I'm about to share my first grow with you.
I have two Northern Lights feminized autoflowers from Nirvana (didn't autoflower, though) and feminized Hawaii Maui Wowie, also from Nirvana, in 2g pots with Roots Organics soil, under a 2x8 T5, staggered veg/flower bulbs, and three small CCFL in the back for supplemental heat and light under the canopy. I'll be upgrading to 600W HPS for the rest of the flowering cycle by the end of next week.
The plants are 34 (NLx2) and 31 (HMW) days old. They've been on 12/12 for about 10 days now.
As you will see in the pics, the NL girls are exceptionally robust. It's taken me a lot of LST work to keep them within the T5's tiny footprint.
The HMW has been slow to grow, and experienced much stress early on for reasons I couldn't understand. It's now turning out to be a bushy wide-leaved dwarf plant, uncharacteristic for its typical genetic makeup. The thing that concerns me more, though, is the fact that it's barely shown any sex yet, almost two weeks into flowering. I don't think I've seen any signs of female flowers at all so far. I woke up this morning, and discovered something at the tops, and I'm not sure if I'm looking at new leaf formation or early male flowers. I know it's impossible for feminized seeds to grow up male, but could I be looking at a herm? Is it possible or typical for a herm to develop male flowers predominantly or exclusively?
I also know that sativa-dominant strains can take a while to show sex, so maybe I'm being impatient and this growth is just new leaves. If this is the case, please let me know.
Experienced growers, please assess the situation and recommend a course of action. Thanks in advance!

Pics:
You can see a good example of the possible male flowers I described, towards the back on the right:

This one turned out blurry, sorry:


Here's an album with four more high-res pics of the HMW plant:
http://imgur.com/a/Pcnm2
Pics in this album are enormous, click on the gear icon at top right to view in full resolution.

This is the whole garden so far:

Another angle:

And the best NL cola so far:

Thanks again for your advice!
Edit: Mods, please move this to the newbie forum, if appropriate. I didn't realize it existed until after I posted this.
 
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urbanP0ison

New Member
Right, it's showing no signs of female sex as far as I can tell. I'm seeing indications of male sex, but I could be wrong as I don't have much experience. That's why I'm here, to confirm or deny that what I'm seeing are male characteristics. I'm nervous that this plant may be a herm. I don't want to compromise the rest of my crop, especially with the other two plants doing so well.
 

sunni

Administrator
Staff member
well in order to do a sexing you need to post UP close photos for us our eyes arent that good im assuming the bottom plant is apart of another crop because the bottom one is female
 

urbanP0ison

New Member
Sorry, yeah, the last three pics are of the entire garden, and the HMW plant is deep in the background in those three pics. I just wanted to share my first grow while I ask for help.
If you look at the album (link below the second pic), you can zoom in really deep on the pics in there since they're super high res. I'll try to get some close up shots right now. It's hard because the iPhone doesn't focus well enough, and none of my DSLR lens are particularly good at macro.
 

sunni

Administrator
Staff member
Sorry, yeah, the last three pics are of the entire garden, and the HMW plant is deep in the background in those three pics. I just wanted to share my first grow while I ask for help.
If you look at the album (link below the second pic), you can zoom in really deep on the pics in there since they're super high res. I'll try to get some close up shots right now. It's hard because the iPhone doesn't focus well enough, and none of my DSLR lens are particularly good at macro.
ok from the imgur link theres no sex showing at all mate youll have to wait
 

urbanP0ison

New Member
Thank you so much for your help, this is exactly what I'd been hoping to hear!
I'm not a patient person by nature, so this first grow has been very trying in some ways. You can see many leaf tips slightly nute burned on the NL plants as testament to that. I'll definitely try to be more patient with the girls as we move forward.
On the plus side, I did find a single hair while taking pics, so things are already looking up! Can't wait to put that 600W HPS in there!
 

urbanP0ison

New Member
Also, any comment on Maui Wowie growing so short (about 8" overall, doesn't seem like it wants to get any taller) and bushy?
 
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