Male or female

[Heissenberg]

Hello all,

This is my 2 month old white widow. Grown from feminized seeds. I wanted to use it as a mother plant but since I dont have experience and assumed its a female, now Im not sure since I dont see any white pistil. Any advice?

 

[dyronlindsey]

Female

 

[go4snypr]

I am not seeing any pistils either. What is it that your looking at dyronlindsey, are we missing something?? I am new to this, but to me its not showing preflower for either male or female, can you educate me??

 

[Neil Rothwell]

hard to tell, at that age male is more likely, if there is time take a cutting and flower it, you need 2 weeks approx for this test.

 

[go4snypr]

why is male more likely?? I am new to this, please educate me.

 

[Neil Rothwell]

the pistil's would be showing by that age and or if you have topped or fimmed that will usually set off the sex showing in the females more so than the males, here is a picture of a female which may help as a comparison.
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[go4snypr]

yes, the female pre flowers on that pic are very obvious to me, but the pic at the top of this post shows neither sex (that i can see). I was just wondering why you would lean more towards a male plant that female if it is not showing at all. But if you top or FIM the plant, that will usually make it show female sex earlier???

 

[Neil Rothwell]

the clipped or missing leaves leads me to think that this plant is older and if it were female the pistil's would be right there beside the small shoot and the leaf starting. this can be wrong, just going by what I have seen myself. if you took this pic please give us any more details about the plant and a better or more conclusive guess/answer on the sex is possible. as for topping/fimming when I have done this in the past the plants all the females showed themselves but only one male has shown itself (balls) early without 12/12

 

[sarahspelle]

I would honestly have to say that it hasn't even started pre-flowering yet to even tell. When that begins, there will be calyx (small node) at the crook of the stem beside the other growths. One calyx tends to be female, its when there are multiple nodes in what looks to be a grape like cluster that it is a male. Just keep watching the plant where the branches meet main stem. It took my plants almost 3 months to begin flowering.