Early Female ID

[canniwhatsis]

Well, here's my game plan,..... I'm going to work with the "Crater" sexing.

I'm shooting for a girl White Widow, and one of each of the Vanilluna, I checked my holes,..... and found what I think are my best options for each. Bear in mind I'm ONLY doing 3 beans here!

So lets see how it works out,.... I'm using a "Jump Start" Seed starter tray for germ..... first time using this, but the guy at the store swears by it and it certainly seems better than a paper towel!


On an interesting note,... I did notice that of all the "Male" craters vs "Female" craters, the shape of the bean was similar too,.... rounder hole,... rounder bean! :wtf:

So,... IF, (thats a big if...) this works out, it would lend some creds to Weezard's slope method.

I'll check back in if someone doesn't sprout and or in a couple months once sex has been determined! Wish me luck!!!! :hippy:

[oldhaole]

WW... I would be happy to mark the red stemmed sprouts. It is an easy thing to do, And I won't mess it up.

Just spent the last half hour looking for "female" seeds and I am now going crosseyed. Forget this....they all look alike. I have a headache. Thanks for the links Horseman and Rusty. Next time I will think before I run my trap.

But I gotta take a pass on looking for girl seeds. It's all greek to me.

So let's see if red stemed starts are all girls. We can also look at this the other way. Are any red stemed plants boys? Red stemed males would step on the theory too.

I will get back to you after the jury comes back.

Sorry for hijacking your thread WW.

[Weezard]

Wisely bailed.:jointsmile:

Doin' same kine sing.
No gonna pop umpty seeds an' keep track an' all.
Too much like w*rk.

Just cracked a few JH seeds.
One had a perfect crater/circle, blah blah.
If it throws balls on da flop, that shoot holes in da round 'ole theory.
As usual, the very least I can do. :rastasmoke:

Carry on.
Weeze

[WashougalWonder]

I have a pair of PF beans I felt were males and I have them germinating now. No red on initial sprout...no red at all on either.

This was using the hole theory.

I have had a female come up and not be red, only one, same species as the one I am looking for a male, PF (poker face). As I note the difference in that batch of seeds, the female had just a duskiness to the stalk, not the redness, and it never got the red through the entire grow, a very different plant.

But looking at my 'feminized' seeds from the last nanner Eff up, they all have the round....all of them. Yet seeds from a different run with a male have both types of ends. Roundness, I agree with Rusty on, they can get scrunched up, tho I still prefer a nice fat round bean.

I am not sure how many beans you doing, but even a small sample of any method would be awesome, as this needs to be tested by many different species indoors and out, and different lattitudes. Any and all attempts are appreciated by anyone, just put the results up, try and be as scientific as possible.
I have lots of spare time to look at seed butts, I guess I have a seed butt fetish. :stoned:

[Rusty Trichome]

Bummer you're sick. Wifey ok?

Yeah...when I read your post initially, I had some PokerFace and some Inca Spirit x Potent Purple seedlings going and it wasn't really adding-up. I figured it wasn't going to work with the Potent Purple genetics, but it seemed sexing the PF wasn't working out either.

Sure would be nice if it worked all the time, though. Especially for the GN Thai.

oldhaole: Tried to warn ya that I was kidding about sexing all those seeds...but did you keep the ones you checked segregated for future reference?

[docman]

Hello I am a newbie only one successful grow.

I have 1 mother plant (mango sp.) and I looked at it today and it had female
parts showing. It has been under 20/4 since I cloned it. Is it going to flower? The lights have never been less than 20 hours on. Why is it maturing like this? Please help...


Thanks in advance

[Weezard]

Hello I am a newbie only one successful grow.

I have 1 mother plant (mango sp.) and I looked at it today and it had female
parts showing. It has been under 20/4 since I cloned it. Is it going to flower? The lights have never been less than 20 hours on. Why is it maturing like this? Please help...


Thanks in advance

Relax brah.:rastasmoke:
Scattered pre-flowers are common with cuttings even at 24/0, eventually.
It just means that she's old enough to date.

Aloha,
Weezard

[docman]

I appreciate your help!


DM

[canniwhatsis]

So far on my seed sexing I can't tell.


All three are now about 3" tall and starting their 3rd set of leaves. Petioles on both the suspected male and female Vannilluna are dusky red on the tops, but that strain gets some really purple stems when mature. :wtf:

Somewhere, I tripped across a flashlight method,.... so I tried that,... the sexes seem different using that method, and dead on for the seed sexing.


I'll check back in a few weeks! :rastasmoke:

[canniwhatsis]

Still nothing definitive with the Vannilluna, and no signs of pre-flowers to be found.

The white widow bean on the other hand :hippy: This seed was selected based on the crater method.

What do you guy's think?