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Hey do any of you guys know if there is a way to tell a male from female plant before switching to flower?im running some regulars this go . I know you can have them lab tested but I'm not gona do that..
 
Hey do any of you guys know if there is a way to tell a male from female plant before switching to flower?im running some regulars this go . I know you can have them lab tested but I'm not gona do that..
I've bad eye's but I've been told if they are mature enough they will put out a single pistil being male or two pistils indicating female but they have to be 6-7-8 weeks old....grey matter and all. Someone else may pipe up. I have to flip to tell but I'm flipping at 5-6 weeks old so they're probably not mature enough for me to see them.

A tell tale sign for me is they can out grow the fems in height and stalk thickness with same aged same strain plants.
 
Internode spacing is a tell.........
I can manipulate the internode spacing with far reds.....its really kinda cool using them intermittently 1 week at a time for 15 min at lights out has a big effect on the space between the nodes and vertical growth. I had them on for 1 week 2-3 of life. I've now had them on for 4 days at lights out again after topping a bunch and they've stretched out again. I have to be careful, last run I grew out of space playing with them.
 
I can manipulate the internode spacing with far reds.....its really kinda cool using them intermittently 1 week at a time for 15 min at lights out has a big effect on the space between the nodes and vertical growth. I had them on for 1 week 2-3 of life. I've now had them on for 4 days at lights out again after topping a bunch and they've stretched out again. I have to be careful, last run I grew out of space playing with them.
I like this idea, it’ll be more manual for me since I don’t have a spectrum tunable light but seems like a potentially very useful.
 
Yes, but that's in flowering, right? I thought he was talking about sexing plants, and males will grow taller with larger internode spacing.
 
My one buddy always said males are the largest.
If I had killed the largest of my regular plants [ Ethos Hash Plant ] I would have missed out on some of the best buds I have grown yet.
Short of cloning or testing I think most other 'methods' are shots in the dark.
 
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Rapid led has far red pucks about $35 each 1 fits a 3x3 or spiderfarmer has the Glow 40's or 80's around $100
My one buddy always said males are the largest.
If I had killed the largest of my regular plants [ Ethos Hash Plant ] I would have missed out on some of the best buds I have grown yet.
Short of cloning or testing I think most other 'methods' are shots in the dark.
Oh yes you're right, not all tall big thick stalk plants are male but its a first clue. You are 100% some of my best plants have started looking like males and its a nice surprise when they aren't. I've grown fems for years but in the past regs were all I had.
 
Yes, but that's in flowering, right? I thought he was talking about sexing plants, and males will grow taller with larger internode spacing.
No in veg, 5 reg seeds 1 for sure will be male and its not 100% but enough to make a trend that tall big fast growing end up male. Within the first couple of weeks - 3 weeks you'll notice it.
 
Hey do any of you guys know if there is a way to tell a male from female plant before switching to flower?im running some regulars this go . I know you can have them lab tested but I'm not gona do that..
I think it was @freezeland that sends a sample away to get tested and finds out in 2 weeks what they are..
 
When I topped a plant in my current grow it revealed itself as male with 18/6 light. I've never had a plant sex itself in veg until then and would like to know why and how can I duplicate that again.
Other than that I have to wait after flip then males will show in 3-5 days and females around 10.
 
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