Can Holding Back on Watering, help the Plant to Show Sex ?

[St. Phatty]

I shared a small batch of Candyland x Apollo 11 seeds with a neighbor.

He started some of them July 1 - and they're looking good ...


BUT one of them has not shown sex (total count so far is 2 females, 3 males, 1 un-declared.)

The un-declared plant has the normal 'nubs', pre-sex organs.

It's at the stage where a little hair coming off one of the pre-sex organs makes us think, "It's a Pistil !" ... but it hasn't been, yet.

No miniature-bunch-of-grapes look that indicates a male.


The pics show the stage of growth (10 days ago) and the fate that be-fell one of the males (Chickens Love Pot !)

LIGHTING: Day-light is about 14 hours. Sun-light yesterday was -
start 8:53 AM
stop ~5:30 AM


QUESTION: Can holding back on water during 'puberty' help a 1 1/2 month old plant to not just show its first sexual organ, but to declare conclusively "I am a female plant" ?

 

[Mrs.Ping29]

Can't see pics

 

[Mrs.Ping29]

Did the females or males show sex first. I'm gonna say it's probably a male. And one to look at for breeding with one of the female Of your choice!
No do not hold back on water! Root bound plants will show sex earlier but the easiest way is to put them in the flower chamber till they show then back to 24 hrs if you still want to veg more. If you already see a hair then it's a girl for sure get out your magnifier! A male flower loos like a small lettuce ball lol and will sprout out ward (horizontal ) and will not be right at the node but lower down. Female preflower looks like calyxes they sprout vertically and are right at the internode.

 

[St. Phatty]

Can't see pics

Sorry - tried it on another browser, where I wasn't logged in ... couldn't see the pictures either.

I suppose if I hosted them on another server ?

Side-stepping computer issues, even without pictures, I'd still like to hear what people say about watering vs. plant sex declaration.

Usually plain old Being Patient works well for me. But with the plant limits ... we want to make sure we're not giving precious grow-space to males.

 

[aridbud]

Not water deprivation, but light....11 -13 hrs. of darkness is best when determining sex of plant. Can you put a large trash can over plant if planted outside? Forcing environmental factors might cause plant to hermie.

Perhaps just keep a watchful eye on plant (daily) to see changes.

Good luck!

 

[HempKat]

Holding back on water isn't going to make them sex any faster only a change in their light cycle will do that although I prefer just to wait it out unless the plant has already vegged enough in which case I'll throw it in flower with the rest and either leave it in or pull it out depending on what the sex is.

 

[Tonygreen]

drought is a good stress way to fish out intersex.

I bet money on it being a girl if everything else showed already.

If you gave it 24-48 hours of dark im sure it would show at this point if you want to speed it up.