When should be preflowers appear?

i know its going to take a lonnnnng time till this thing sexual matures cuz i am growing outdoors and all. but when do preflowers appear and if so how far am i away from telling? i know it sounds dumb but help is appreciated

fuck i just noticed how fucked my title name for this thead. one bowl to many eh heh

Your plant is being eaten alive by bugs...
Sex generally shows about 1 1/2 weeks after the flowering light cycle is started.
Generally the plant should be at least a month old before that too.
I'm guessing that thing is outdoors because of the bug damage.
So basically it'll show when mother nature feels like it.

ya u really need to take care of that bug prob or u wont have any weed 2 smoke..gl...

it has bin aken care of already. the culprict is snails and i ended up showering the area with snail bait. as u can see in the picture. the bites were previous from wees earlier

Plants will show sex when they reach the point of maturity during the veg stage. You'll notice that as soon as one month in or later. Just keep looking and you'll see.

The most common method is to force flower a labeled clone to determine the sex, rather than the incorrect method of forcing the seedling and then reverting it to vegetative growth again.
If you are a seedling grower who does not clone, or a grower who has no seperate vegetative and flowering grow spaces, the easiest method is simply to wait for the preflowers (primordia), and sexual maturity to appear while the seedling is still in vegetative growth. In other words, if you wait until they are 6 to 8 weeks old, most plants will show you their gender without any forcing.
Seedling growers who don't clone are really missing out on the full potency potential of their finished crop whenever they force their seedlings before they've become sexually mature.

LUDA.

Yeah you just have to wait for mother nature or take a clone or take a box or something and cover one of the node sites. You can locally induce flowering, and it won't interfere with the rest of the plant.