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Sexing my plant

Imbatman
Imbatmanstarted grow question 4 years ago
Can anyone sex this plant.. 5 weeks old and in flower for a week.. Its a bag seed..
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 4 years ago
Howdy, you need to post at least one clear, close up picture of the area where the leaf and branch meet the main stem and show anything growing in this area, as this is where the plant wil grow the "pre-flowers" (primordia) and this is the only way to determine gender by human sight. The pictures you have posted do not show any of these things in detail, also remembering there is no "zoom" function on this platform, so a definitive answer really can't be given, because it is impossible to see anything growing or indeed if anything is growing in those areas at all. I personally can't see anything there and to me it looks like you are a bit early to be able to tell if it has started showing any signs of flowering just yet. You need to be able to see a calyx with a pair of white hairs (pistils) emerging from inside the calyx to be able to determine if it is a female. These pre flowering calyxes will appear at the junction of the main stem and a branch/leaf. At this stage your plant looks nice and healthy and carrying most of her leaves, which means she will be able to produce maximum energy with those leaves, and therefore, maximum growth. Please do not be tempted into any sort of de-leafing, this only deprives your plant of the ability to produce energy, which then leads to slower and potentially smaller growth. If you can see small pods that look like they are wearing a hoodie and growing on a stalk, and without pistils, these are what male flowers look like. I think you might have to wait a bit longer until something grows in the main stem / branch junction area to determine what sex it is. If there is something growing there, we need to see a clear close up picture of it to be able to say if it is male or female flowers. Just saying that there are no male flowers, so it must be a female is foolish, because if there are no flowers, you can not give a definitive assessment as to the plants gender. Hope this helps,.... Organoman.
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 4 years ago
I see no sign of male parts yet. So female. But it will form balls and a lot of them if it is male.
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