Preflowers already?

I have a 24 day old plant vegging and its about 12~14inches WIDE and 6~8 inches TALL.

They are AK48 from Nirvana.

It is showing signs of male already which i think it is. Other two same age plants arent showing balls just still growing. But one of hte plants is showing some kinda balls.

Plant grew REALLY fast and showed preflower at week 3. IS IT NORMAL?

Can this happen or are the genetics i got somewhat of a autoflowering plant?

Any input would be nice..

I really wanted to deny the fact it was a male since its been only week 3 and growing really fast. But it looks like small balls are growing on some parts of the nodes.

How long do i have till those balls pollenate?

If the pollen gets into the tent and the tents contain only seedlings and still vegging plants, would that pollen affect it down the road?

I want to keep this one male for breeding. What can i do?

Thanks all.

some pics would help,but most full sized males show pre flowers at about 3-4 weeks,most auto flowers within 15 days from seed.

and the pollen only affects flowering female plants.The youngins dont have anything to pollenate,same with veggin plants,but it is always best to segregate any males from the females.

Thanks will post some pics tomz.

It started showing balls at 3~4 weeks... And it wasnt a auto flowering strain so i thought the sex showign at 3~4 weeks are too fast but i guess it could happen.

Will post some pics tommorow.

Here are some pics..

Im 100% sure now that its a male but anyone know why it showed preflwoers at vegging at week 3~4 and it wasnt a autoflwoer strain?

Does this happen to some strains?


Strain was AK48..

Im going to try to save some pollens off this plant by leaveing it under 2 CFLs?

Would that work? Or not work?

Pics are below. Balls seem to be getting big.

BTW this plant smells the MOST out of all the plants in the tent.

Also seems to get my fingers sticky after touching the branches..

2 out of 5 of mine are starting to show as well, its only week 3.5-4 as well anyone know if this is normal?

btw im using good bag seed and cfls

I have AF Lowryder 2 in pots under floros 24/0. Out of my 9 beauties,one showed balls at day 18...now at day 22, none of the other 8 more squatty ones have any sign of male stuff. And the one male definitely is stronger smelling already. I too wonder how soon do I need to segregate....????

soon as you get males you want to be removing them,right away really