Quote Originally Posted by headshake
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.
run11129 Reviewed by run11129 on . Quick Question: Youngest Flowering start? Hey How young can I start the flowering process? Currently plants are on 18/6 under CFLs, roughly 4 days since they popped up from the soil. A guide I've been kind of following starts on day 16, but I'm on a time crunch so is 14 days too soon? What is the minimum? Thanks Rating: 5