do male plants grow faster than female plants?:smokin:
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do male plants grow faster than female plants?:smokin:
My male sativas grew really quick, female was slower.
so how do you decide if they are growing too fast?
I was so excited about my large plants to find out that the larger faster growers turned out males :(
You'd probably decide by picking out the ones that are growing faster than others in the garden :p. But it's not a 100% fool proof method so dont think every plant thats outgrowing others are males.Quote:
Originally Posted by redsoxian22
so is it true
Sarcasm befits you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pass That Shit
how expierenced are you in the art growing there qdavid?
I wouldnt bet the farm on it, but from personal experience and hearing the experience of several others, this tends to be the case...but I would never kill any plant until i saw what its been hiding
Are you implying that I was being sarcastic?Quote:
Originally Posted by qdavid
I WAS NOT. I just shared my personal experience. I was happy that some plants were growing very fast and tall, then I found out later that they were males and had to get rid of them :mad:
well all i know is that males flower sooner than females so im guessin they may well grow faster in veg to
i had 8 males out of ten plants and the ones that were females wernt the biggest or fastest growin they were near the slowest and took nearly two weeks to show, the males showed in a week.
why dont people just get feminised seeds thats what i do now, id rather spend a lil extra and know they all female than spend all that time growin when you risk having to kill maybe most of your crop
i was pissed when i found out i had like two females out of 10 and really didnt want to throw the lil buggers away but they no good so had to
one word... Genetics
Love and light - Hall
there is natural variation, you cant tell a plants sex untill it starts showing it flowers.
I had similar experiences over the years. Males tower over females to shower them with pollen at the right time. If you are growing all the same strain then they should look very similar. I grew Shiva Shati 2 for my first ever hydro and one of the plants turned out to be a dude; there were only 2 in there and one of them had to be chopped. Chopping males early helps preserve the remaining crop. Recently I had to scrap an entire 40 plant crop; I tried pulling the pollen sacks off instead of chopping hoping that they were hermies, the whole crop had to be binned. Where as iff i just took the boys out immediately it mighn't have got so bad. WE live and learn.
I've found that of plants treated identically, males have more vertical growth and females get side growth earlier.. So it looks like the males are growing faster, but they are just going a little more vertical to drop pollen most efficiently on the ladies.
Just my observation in my growing conditions.
Doh! I read it wrong and had to open my big mouth!Quote:
Originally Posted by redsoxian22
Hey redsox: as soon as you can, just take a clone. Then flower the clone ASAP and you will see the sex of you plants.