malefemale question

[mikey mike]

hey i would like to know once a seed sprouts is the a decided sex from day 1 or what

mikey mike Reviewed by mikey mike on 08-03-2004. malefemale question hey i would like to know once a seed sprouts is the a decided sex from day 1 or what :) :confused: Rating: 5

[rnf232s]

No, the better care you take of your plant and tighter controls you keep on all aspects the way they should be the more chances they will be female. It is still chance, but males will come more often too if the plant is induced to a lot of stress during the early growth.

[mikey mike]

ok thank man but by stress to u mean like transplanting and handling and stuff like that

[GRB.4.Life]

Stress is anything that causes the plant to have to adjust to its environment. Examples, drastic changes in lighting, drastic soil change(bad transplant), mostly things that you change that it has to adjust to will cause stress. Which will greatly incline a male outcome. Less change, better chance of female, more change, youll get a male.

In outdoor crops, because you cant control some of the changes they have to endure, males tend to be the most populant. In indoor crops, you can keep things a lot more steady and calm for them, basically playing God, thus increasing the female outcome...

[Sinsemilla Jones]

Stress can cause hermorphodism, but it doesn't change the sex of the plant which is already determined before it sprouts. There are also true hermie plants that are genitically programed to show both sexes, stress or no stress.

In fact, it is the genetic determination of sex that allows for breeding techniques that produce feminized seed.

At least, that's how I understand it.

-Sinse

[taphead]

What comes firs the chicken or the egg? Who knows for sure. everyone has a theroy.

[mikey mike]

what im confused witch 1 is it

[Sinsemilla Jones]

Just treat your plants well, and look for primordial flowers in the nodes to see which sex they are. Once you have a female, you can clone from her and know for sure your plants are female.

-Sinse

[sawleaf]

It is genetically predetermined. It is already decided if they are male or female as a seed. Sinsemilla Jones is correct. Otherwise you you would be able to take feminized seeds and stress them to become male plants. This will not happen. The most that would happen is you'd cause your female plants to have a few male flowers.

[GRB.4.Life]

"It is genetically predetermined." -sawleaf

Wow, is it really? I always thought the stress factor determined its sexual outcome..Wow, ya learn somethin new everyday! Well, i hope we will still all treat our plants good! lol..No need to stress them just because it wont turn them male. I guess it really is just a 50/50 chance...I always thought it was..Anyways, goodluck, have a happy harvest!

PS- Sorry for posting somethin that was of no relivence. I have a question too. sawleaf, you said that the worst that could happen is you could have a female plant turn hermi, doesnt this mean that stress in fact does change its sex? Just curious...