I think it is time I added my posting about early recognition as some folks are starting to experiment. Though it is here: http://boards.cannabis.com/advanced-...ml#post2068667 I will just quote the text here to keep folks in this thread.

I will also add before I do this, that I now am starting to look at the seed itself before planting. I look for a perfect circle at the end that was at the stalk. So far, every perfect circle seed I have planted in the last year has been a female.

That being said:
I am sure I will hear about this. I have do documentation to prove this other than my observances over the last 1.5 decades.

I believe in it enough I took a plant that had not shown and put it in the flower room. Did that exactly 7 days ago. Today it showed.

I have a theory. I did identify this as a female on day one of germination. My only proof is a friend, and my word. You don't wanna believe, then so be it, don't be nasty. I am posting in advanced so I don't mess with newbies heads. Chripes they worry too much for this old fart.

So, my theory is:

If a seedling comes out of the soil and there is dark red streaking or dark red stem watch this closely for signs of being a female.

Additional signs are red streaks in the main stem. Red 'dots' on the petioles. NO red in the leave veins (which is a deficiency). The petioles may even have red streaking.

I germinated 3 of the same species, one showed today, another I killed today because of poor phenotropism, and the last one is still in veg and not showing. I believe that one is a female too, but it is growing quite differently from it's sibling.

Conversely, Male seedlings are green stalk. No red in the petioles, they also are green. They grow faster, taller, leaner and using those criteria, I have not been wrong yet.

Maybe this is just a fluke. But someone or something I read somewhere a long time ago in a land far, far away....(back to life now) I heard this. I did not believe it. I think I do now.

There are additional little indicators, like the parts I call the spurs. They seem to look more like crossed swords early in life whereas in males they just look like pointy things sticking up.

I know I came outta no where. I do try hard to document and have references for what I state. This time it is just experience.

Are there people that agree with me? I am sure we have dissidents. Like I say I cannot prove this, but golly gee, if I am risking $300 seeds and just throwing them in a flower room, I sorta believe in what I am doing, I am not a risk taker.
Now I have had one instance of the red not showing. It was recent. I picked a 'female' seed by the criteria stated, and it is almost done flowering at this writing. So, it seems the butt end of the seed may be even more accurate. This plant has never shown any of the red at all throughout it's life.
WashougalWonder Reviewed by WashougalWonder on . Males, Females, and early recognition This question?.is it a male?..is it a female?..comes up so often that I thought that I??d try to consolidate information in one spot. This isn??t so much new information as I??ve seen a lot of this posted elsewhere?.just an attempt to ??bring it all together?. The Genotype used here is a nostalgia strain called ??Gainesville Green?. It??s a hybrid and quite sativa dominate?..if in fact others experience different results with different strains then this is the place to Rating: 5