Quick Question: Youngest Flowering start?

[run11129]

starting from you seed you want to make sure the plant is sexually mature before you decided to flower. this accomplishes two things. first off it allows you to make sure that you have female plants and second, it makes sure the genetics are fully developed.

you can tell a cannabis plant is sexually mature when it's nodes start to alternate. (see picture.) this usually happens around the 4th-6th node.

if you are gonna flower from a clone you can put them into flower as soon as they have a nice, healthy root structure.

good growing!


-shake

so i'm new to this, first post, but how can you tell the sex before flowering, from what i have read you can only tell after? i would help me a ton if i could find out before flowering.