I grew 4 big, healthy White Widow plants, and I did not know the sex of them...

So I tried cloning for sex.... until somebody suggest looking for them pre-flowers.

So I did.... and I had a 50% success rate predicting the sex of my plants. So I removed two of them... and kept the two "females".

After I don't know how much time... I took a cruise... and the "watering person" popped the door during nightime... so when I got back, I saw some very interesting male pollen sacks growing ALL OVER my "female".

So I cut the transvestite biatch right out of there... and stayed with my present female.

So, to know sex, you can:
A- clone for sex
B- look for the pre-flowers.

My problem is that my plant's pre-flowers are... TINY. Un-seeable I would say... They're, almost not there. In FACT, they're still a myth to me... never seen them... hmmm... maybe the entire internet is lying... and there's no such thing as "pre-flowers".... ????

Anyways, yeah... you can grow mother plants without knowing their sex... I did... healthy ones, too!

Ok, end of rantings.... carry on!
turtle420 Reviewed by turtle420 on . Cloning issues Ok, I've read the FAQ's and searched, time to ask my question. I seem to be following the steps for cloning correctly, but am having limited success. I took 5 clones the first time, and had one survive, and took 9 this last time and only had one survive. I am clipping a growing shoot below the 2nd set of leaves, then putting the cut stalk under water and cut it again at a 45 degree angle. I dip the stalk in a rooting hormone, and put it in a medium (kinda like rockwool, don't remember the Rating: 5