Hello everybody.
This is my first grow and I simply can't decide whether it is male or female... Or maybe it's to early to say it... Could you please help me?Attachment 288387
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Hello everybody.
This is my first grow and I simply can't decide whether it is male or female... Or maybe it's to early to say it... Could you please help me?Attachment 288387
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Can't see the naughty bits and there are no pistils visible in the one natural light snap.
So, going by the morphology I'd call it a boy.
Better pics might get better guesses.
Aloha,
Weezard
Sorry, I can't take better pictures with my crappy camera. Here's another one of other plant. What do you think? I see hairs, but also I can see something like balls... I'm just confused.Attachment 288394
Actually It has something like balls (small green oval thing from which realeses tiny hairs, as I can see - white). It reminds me of V sign, when I look closer. That ball is on the center and has two white hairs around him and often white hair in it (at the center of a "ball").
That last pic is female. Congrats
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Originally Posted by bumbastiklas
Not so much the crappy camera, more the hps lighting.
Flip her to white light long enough to take pictures and it gets a whole lot easier to call.
I hadda 'shop this one.
I'm usually too lazy to bother with crappy snaps.
Jus' wanted to see if she really had nuts on her.
Don't see any. :)
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Push is spot on.
She looks sweet, too.
:cool:
Aloha,
Weeze
Thank you, Weezard and pushit! :)
Mighty fine photoshop work there Weezard.:thumbsup: It's amazing what you can see without the hps light.
I want to ask one question more. It is bad that my plants leaves looking like this? I mean they aren't straight, they are looking quite healthy, but some of them are bent down...
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It can't be overwatering. They're just droopy a bit, only those bigger leaves. I spray them everyday day (about two to three times a day) with water mixed with Hesi Multi Vit. Could spraying be a problem? Or there are no problems at all?
You are aware that natural leaf color is needed for an accurate diagnosis.
To me it is the most important indicator of impending issues.
And as stated, I'm to lazy to try to make your photos more useful.
You want answers?
Work with us, brah.
Aloha,
Weeze
Sorry... I've just took some photos now. I couldn't turn off flash. Here we are:
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Much mo' betta
First, the good news:
It has good color.
I don't see any trace of bugs.
Looks healthy, if a tad spindly.
Not overwatered, not overnuted
You've been taking good care of it.
That's the good news.
The bad news?
I don't see any pistils!
And the first picture has what looks like boy bits!
Look carefully at those tiny balls.
Are they flush to the stem, or do the have a tiny stalk?
(Flush to the stem is good.)
Do you see any fine, white, hairs poking out of them?
Use a magnifying glass.
If not, it's time to start over. :(
'course you could grow it out and harvest the pollen for breeding new seed.
Before you do anything drastic based on my impressions, best wait to see what Push has to say about it.
He has younger eyes.
Aloha,
Weeze
Thanks for your help. Yep, it seems like a male. Now I'm sure. So I have one female, one male and one another plant, which confuses me a lot. I think it could be a hermie, but I'm not sure and I don't want to make drastic desicions because of lack of experience. So I need some help. Here some other pics from another plant. Do you think it's a hermie, so the worst?
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Your plants look so sickly :(
Please take better care of your next grow. I'm afraid if I showed these pictures to my girls they'd die of fright. Your grow is very prone to hermie because of the poor growing conditions, poor lighting, and lack of proper nutrients. No matter how good the strain is (although that looks like ditchweed/schwag, probably just because of the care they're getting), remember, the better you take care of your plants, the better they will take care of you.
Even if it hasn't hermied yet, it's very possible it will - The reason plants hermie under horrible care is because they are trying to insure they survive, so they try everything they can to self pollinate. Give them a better and more fruitful source of light, and start feeding them more than tap water.
Don't say I'm taking horrible care. I give them nutrients, they're growing in my wardrobe under 250W HPS, air circulation is good and temps are between 23-26 celsius. I would not call it horrible conditions...
That word is not right. I just got them very sick about a month ago from one person who didn't take care in any ways and started taking care of them. Now they are much much healthier then they were before.
So it's horrible conditions? I don't think so.
The last two pics are hermie. Do you mind posting a close up of the female again? A closer pic with normal lighting will help out a lot. Gotta make sure she dont have any male parts.
I can't post it now, but today I found some male parts and cut it off. There were only a few, don't what's going on, but I hope I could save her...
you ruined her by putting her into flower before doing any changes in the veg stage. That's why I have to say horrible care, and I'm sorry I have to say it :( I'm not trying to be mean, I'm really not, but if it were not for the light stresses and several other issues, they'd be really healthy looking - Those plants are sooo stressed out bumbastiklas :(
If I would have gotten them a month ago, I would have cloned each one twice (topping) vegged them out for a month, and then put them into flower, well, about now - and you'd have a nice little sog
I agree that LR was a tad harsh there.
I can see that you tried to nurse them back to health.
I disagree with the practice of foilar feeding.
It is inappropriate for Cannabis but I understand why you tried it.
And generally, new growers tend to over-care for their babies.
They love them to death.
It's entirely possible that those genetics were pre-destined to hermie.
Bag seed is accidental seed. It's usually created by a hermied plant.
That's what makes bag seed such a crap shoot.
So, no beat yourself up. (Ya got Rider to do dat for ya.:) )
Next time?
Good seed!
Then, dirt, water, and light.
Then back off and let 'em grow.
Now for the bad news.
Orchiectomy is ineffective. (choppin' off those balls won't work)
It will just pop more.
Them plants are toast.
Not even good for seed.
Only upside I can see is something that interests me.
Had my only mature female "throw balls on the river" a few year ago.
Was almost out of meds, so I isolated it and grew it to maturity.
Ah, it took me back to the bad old days.
Sittin' onna floor with the top of a shoebox rolling the seeds out.
Bottom line, it was good smoke.
Not much of it, but good meds in what was.
Tried planting the seeds. they all hermied, each and every one.:(
Long story, short.
Sent them to a friend on the mainland to plant in an isolated field.
He's happy as a clam
So, if you can grow them out without compromising anyone's gender-solid crop, go for it.
I'll be interested in the potency.
Because I have smoked seeded meds in the '60 that kicked my steelheaded ass. :D
Aloha, brah,
Weezard
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Yeah, I apologize. I love my plants (like... love) I talk to them all the time, but harvest time is a happy time, because momma is in to veg, and she's proud of her sprout :) I'm sorry I was a tad bit rude. I do hope you can finish her off well and end up with something decent out of it! It just kinda reminded me of charlie browns christmas tree.... :(
Thank you guys for helping me and giving some important information! I think I'll let them flower until they finish. And soon will be my next try with good seeds. Yep, I see my mistake and I definitely agree. Next time I hope I'll make it better... :)
They are all hermied, but has many of hairs (now even brown hairs!).. And, of course, many of balls. But it won't be worse if I let them do their job. And I'll report how it goes. :)
Thank you!