Think Ive got a male :(, advice needed please

Thanks for the advice everyone, and good idea to check the top node, only one ball on 2 diff nodes so far though

i usually get my first indication of sex a couple of nodes down from the top. i use my 30x jewelers loupe and check around. i really dont worry about it much because i still wont pull it until after its been in 12/12.

then if male i will inspect it for possible breeding stock and chop it. if i want to try and get some seeds, i will save the clone i have of it. if not i will pull the clones of it.

justanotherbozo said:

mj takes longer than 4 weeks to reach sexual maturity, ...more like 8 to 12.

bozo

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i grow mostly indica dom strains and showing pre-flower around week 4-6 of veg. shows its coming into maturity and by week 8 should be there. 12 weeks seems like a long time to reach sexual maturity.

have you grown any that have taken that long and what strain was it? also what was the flowering time on it?

thanks

smoke and coke said:

i grow mostly indica dom strains and showing pre-flower around week 4-6 of veg. shows its coming into maturity and by week 8 should be there. 12 weeks seems like a long time to reach sexual maturity.

have you grown any that have taken that long and what strain was it? also what was the flowering time on it?

thanks

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i recently culled a couple of freebies i popped that came to me without a clear indication of what they were, ...anyway, they turned out to be as close to a pure sativa as i've ever grown, not that i have decades of experience mind you as i've only been growing for a bit more than 6 years.

...so i flipped them with a bunch of other seed starts at about 8 weeks from seed, i'd have to go back and check my 'notes', lol, ...anyway, they took more than a month after the flip before i had definitive proof that they were female, ...so about 8 weeks of 24/7 and then 4 weeks of 12/12.

...i chopped them early at 20 weeks, ...way too phucking long a turnaround time for this old stoner!

peace, bozo

now that i think about it. i only start seeds once a year and then its clones the rest of the year. but i have had some slow veggers that i never end up getting clones from and only get grown once. they did take along time to show pre-flowers and get alt. nodes.

think il use my microscope to have a proper look tonight, if i can find my magnifying glass, will help for pics too. il find out soon enough im hoping lol

From what I have seen male flowers do not have trichomes on them - ball on a stick.
Female calyxes have trichomes.

Checked under a microscope tonight, and the balls look even both sides, like a wigwam shape rather than a crabs claw. There are trichomes on the balls too. I'm confused now lol. I've started flowering tonight anyway, so hopefully be able to tell for sure soon enough

Trousers said:

From what I have seen male flowers do not have trichomes on them - ball on a stick.
Female calyxes have trichomes.

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Under a 60x scope i can usually see little crystals on the leaves and preflowers on both male and female.

I don't know whether these are terpene's, or a tyoe of trichome (they're so much smaller than normal)
as i have never seen pictures of terpenes.

Chopped one this morning had a stack of little sacs damn shame it was a beautiful plant (

I think I may have a second male I guess better luck next time it may be to early but the growth is similar to the one I chopped it's jut slower.

Brian, what? Lol. Just got code

stonedpixie said:

Brian, what? Lol. Just got code

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spammer....

I turned my plants about a week ago, and this one turned out to be a male :View attachment 2480018

Im a firsttime grower myself, and everbody said that this one is a male.
Just thought u´d wanna see a pic, cuz most of the pics ive seen in the forum looks like screendumps from an old Nintendo...

ive had spam, but thats just strange lol. in that pic can clearly see balls, after 6pm tonight, il be checking, as i will have been flowering for a night, prob wont do much difference, but you never know

hope its not another male for u jeff, how many plants are you growing in total? if its a few, one or 2 males isnt too bad, as mine is just one, its annoying if it is male that i have to start again lol. if it isnt, and its female, i then need to start worrying about smell, as havent got a carbon filter or anything, and due a house inspection soon lol