Marijuana Sexing
After four or five weeks you will start to have a chance at sexing the plants. Although generally considered one of the trickiest parts of growing your own marijuana. Marijuana sexing is quite straightforward and will become easier as you gain more experience. The reason for sexing your plants is so that you can remove male plants before they have a chance to pollinate the females. If this occurs the females will start to develop seeds and this will divert their energy from THC production.
Left to their own devices plants will develop pre-flowers after around 4 – 6 weeks. This is the right time to remove the males and commence the flowering stage.
Marijuana is a dioecious plant which simply means that the males will produce pollen and the females will produce seeds. Although, as in other forms of life, hermaphrodites do occur.
Flowering is the only true way to sex your plants, although you may get a clue from their growth patterns. Male cannabis plants tend to be leggier than female plants with a longer internodal length. Female plants are squatter with more leaves and a bushier aspect.
Male pre-flowers should be clearly visible to the eye, although a magnifying glass will make your job easier. Male flowers form at the junctions of the branches and stem and the pollen sacs form little balls.
Female pre-flowers will also form at the junction of branches and stem but will normally start to form at the fourth or fifth branches up from the base. They are easily distinguished by the appearance of pairs of tiny white hairs, known as pistils.
Some growers force flowering by changing the light cycle before the appearance of pre-flowers. They then watch their plants closely for the appearance of flowers and remove the males. However, others believe that this can stress the plants and is not a proven way of speeding up the process as plants forced in this way may spend longer in the flowering phase, cancelling out the advantage.
and how long will the female plant pre-flower for for 2 months of what
IMHO you’ve got the right aneswr!
Very true! Makes a cahgne to see someone spell it out like that.
Can a plant have both sex growing from the one
Stock? First timer had some with the seeding buds,
So had the things called pistons aswell.little confused.
Please someone help
do you grow both sexes or if its a male you kill it .. i only have one plant …can i still grow it and enjoy it …
You can grow a male marijuanna plant but the seed development takes most
of the THC production and of course crystal production, if u are only growing one and its male, save your money on nutrients and lights and toss it in the garbage. Sorry