Dec 25 (16 days) - Merry Christmas everyone! I am pleased to report that the growth spurt has started to happen. #1 is the big guy, but height wise, 2 and 3 have almost caught up with him. #4 is still the runt, but she is getting taller now too. Everyone is reaching up and gathering light and growing rapidly now. It is also helping a great deal now that I am not watering nearly as much... the soil feels pretty dry right now to me and I would have been hitting them with a couple of cups of water before I learned not to... but now my moisture indicator probe says there is still some water in there, and no signs of thirst in the babies.

As you all are aware, I am attempting to prove the early sexing theory that was brought to us by WashougalWonder (http://boards.cannabis.com/advanced-...ml#post2068667). Using that work, we have identified #4 as a male and #1 (the runt) as female. 2 and 3 were a bit more difficult, but it was very tempting to label both of them early on as female although I went 50/50 on them and initially labeled them one of each. There were red indicators on the trunks on both of them though, and looking at this experiment some more, I am heading back to my original feelings about these two and thinking that they are both female.

What I have noticed is this. The male clearly shows green stalk... from the dirt level up to the top of the growth, nothing but green. Some of the petioles (the smaller leaf stalks) are red, but I think this is more genetics than an indicator of sex. The other 3, I am thinking that a key place to look is the main stalk, between the first true leaves and the first internode. In all 3 this little section of main stalk is all red. Could this be the indicator we are looking for? If so, I have 3 girls and a boy here. Time will tell.

Here are the pictures!

Our big boy #1... look at him go!


Number 2... catching up! Note the red stalk before the first internode


Number 3... right behind, and again the red section of main trunk


Number 4... the proud little runt and her very clearly all red stalk


Be well everyone...
Emmie