quick question

[cjk]

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before i ask i will say this is my first grow and i am not worried about yield or quality. the main plant is about 3 weeks old and 7 inch's. ive had the main plant budding for almost 2 weeks now. it does not have any pistils or nut sacks yet. but it does have what appears to have small white trichs on it(cant see in pic).my question is if its starting to smell skunky and has small trichs would that mean that its a female?

cjk Reviewed by cjk on 09-23-2011. quick question before i ask i will say this is my first grow and i am not worried about yield or quality. the main plant is about 3 weeks old and 7 inch's. ive had the main plant budding for almost 2 weeks now. it does not have any pistils or nut sacks yet. but it does have what appears to have small white trichs on it(cant see in pic).my question is if its starting to smell skunky and has small trichs would that mean that its a female? Rating: 5

[mrmarijuanaman]

so you only had it vegging for 1 week? you gotta wait to see preflowers man, ive been fooled before.

[cjk]

yeah it was only vegging for a week. this is just an experimental grow for me. if this is a successful grow i will veg for at least a month next time.

[pushit]

Its gonna take a little longer than the normal couple weeks for that plant to show sex. Its not mature yet. Given time it will flower as long as you are doing 12/12 lighting. From seedling most people will wait til the nodes alternate before flowering. Now with clones you can flower at just about anytime cause they are the same age as the mother plant. Just a suggestion, but you might want to have one plant per pot. Youre just asking for problems with multiple plants in a single pot. Good luck

[cjk]

thanks for the response pushit. i only did that in case the main plant turned out to be a male. but thanks i was getting frustrated checking it every day and not seeing sacks or pistils.

[cjk]

just a quick update and another question. its been 2 weeks and 1 day. the main plant has over doubled in size has a whole lot more leaves. also she has about 23-25(lost count) hairs already. now my new question is do the pistils just keep getting bigger and turn into buds? or do the buds grow around the pistils?

[emilya]

By hairs I am assuming you are talking about the pistils, and not the almost microscopic "hair" on many strains main trunks and larger stems... on a young female the pistils look like 2 hairs rising up from the oval calyx in a V, and they will be located at the base of the new nodes. Find a picture of these here on the board for reference. These are called pre-flowers and eventually they will turn into new buds, but you will see long before that another change in your plant as you switch to the 12/12 lights and switch to flowering mode... instead of developing new branches at the top of the plant and the ends of each existing branch, you will notice that the nature of these "ends" changes... The plants start throwing out pistils from these ends, turning them into flowers. The pre-flowers you are now seeing... some will turn into new branches, and at the ends of those, you will find the flowers, and some will end up being small buds, and some will never develop.
My advice is to stay in veg until your plant is 1/2 the size you wish it to end up. Just because you are seeing pistils is not a good reason to switch to flowering mode. Patience is the key operating word here. Switch the lights to 12/12 when they get big enough and then expect the plant to double in size in the next 2-3 weeks and watch as the structure of the new growth changes form right before your eyes. It really is remarkable to watch it happen.

Emmie