Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
You have been watching the height of your plant every week
and now the plant is becoming more like the picture of the strain that
you viewed in the seed-bank brochures. Then one day you notice that
the plant is not growing much taller anymore. It seems to have
stopped. You take a closer look and see that there appears to be small
new growths at most of the nodes between the stem and the branch.
This is new to you. These have not developed before so you ask
yourself, “what are they?”
Your plant is now reaching the end of its vegetative stage.
These small new growths are going to produce more leaf, branches and
FLOWERS. The plant is now entering its Pre-flowering stage.
PRE-FLOWERING
Now is the time when you should be hoping for as many
females as possible and that all your work has not been in vain. You
closely look at the new growths (Calyx) to see if you can identify your
plant's sex, but it is still too early to tell.
The early stages all look the same you say? What should you
do now? You do not know? You will have to wait and see.
There are three things that can reveal your plant's sex early
on but these are not 100% accurate. They are more of an educated
guess. So remember these methods can fail to be accurate but most of
the time they are a good indicator.
