Early sexing....

[Hazemaster]

Hope this is the right place for this....I have read articles about how to find out what the plant's sex is while in the vegetative state, using the method of covering one branch with a black paper bag and only exposing the branch to 12/12.

Should I try the above system or should I take a cutting and put it in my flowering room to determine sex? My flowering room has HPS and the VEG room has MH. Is this a good method or should I just take my cutting into the flowering room and see what happens?

The black paper bag trick sounds tricky....has anyone done this with success? I imaging it will be hard to keep the light out of the bag/branch and yet keep it vented. And where would one find a black paper bag? Can I improvise with panda poly and make a bag instead? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!! :rastasmoke:

[howsyourroof]

i tried but with limited success . i.e. ventilation, different times of removal

[malex]

How do you mean, which method have you tried?

[madeline]

I always try to maintain patience and just wait until alternate branching is underway then I pull out my 10x mag glass and start looking for the telltale double hairs...they begin showing around week 5-8, depending on conditions.

[MULLETMAN]

cuttings sounds like a decent idea.

[ballastman]

You could throw a cutting under a 14 dark 10 light photoperiod,it does seem to be quicker than 12/12 in my limited experience with it.Most of the time,if you have a good magnifying glass you really can tell at 3 or 4 weeks,too many folks try with the naked eye I think.Forgive me people if it seems I'm turboposting and I'm brand new,I really hope I can help some folks here and get some help myself.Sometimes people misunderstand I'll lay off for now lol

[Abunai]

i think if you veg them for a long time (longer than usual like 2 months), they will show their sex faster (around 1-3 days into flowering) or at least thats how it went for me ;)! i found females before males LoL

[ballastman]

No bro thats under finding premature ovules.

[Dr.Hashman]

If you are worried about costs of running the HPS for a couple clones (don't know how many you have), you might consider just putting the clones in beer cups with 2 42w cfls above them :/ Stick em in a box or something.

Just an idea.