Won't Show Sex?

[Tarantula-1]

No pix, but I'm not sure a photo would illuminate anything anyway.

In a nutshell, I've got five plants 27 days in flower. Four showed female 2-plus weeks ago and are budding up nicely. The last - a Nirvana Cali-O, for the record - flat out refuses to show me any sex at all. At every node point where I should be seeing hairs or nuts or something...I'm getting new branch growth instead (so obviously this is some kind of mutant).
Leaf structure is your basic 50/50 indie-sat....nothing to indicate an especially long-flowering pheno here. As mentioned, my others (another Cali, a WW/Early Girl and a couple of NLs) are right on schedule and fit as fiddles.

I haven't culled it yet because A- my girls are in no danger of being knocked up and B- frankly, I'm fascinated by the anomaly. But 27 days without showing sex of any kind is mighty strange, no? I clipped four or five clones from the new growth a couple days ago in case they behave more conventionally once rooted, but realistically I'm at least 4-5 weeks from sexing them, assuming they in fact show sex at all.

Anybody ever encounter anything similar? At this point, since I have taken cuts, is there any upside to keeping the "mother" (?) going, or is trashing "her" my best bet? Appreciate any input y'all can offer.

 

[hogwild]

ive had plants take longer than 27 days to show sex. Chances are its shown its sex and you havent identified it yet... but if it hasn't it will soon. just keep waiting and looking every day.

 

[Ronley]

Dont worry about it,
EEEEEEEEventually you will get sex, and EEEEEVEEENNNNNTUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLY the plant will be ready. Check out my Gypsy 007 thread
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=25283&highlight=gypsy+007

The 007 turned out to be a Nirvana strain, so most likely I grew the same strain.
I could not wait so long for my 007 to reach full maturity so I culled her in the middle and turned her into ice hash.
Heres a photo of her just before culling.
Also check out other members grows on Gypsy 007 secret freebie.

 

[stealthballer]

I had one plant that didn't show sex like a month and a half.
Matter of fact I got frustrated and threw it back into the veg chamber cause it was eating up space. Two days later it showed and was a girl. That plant was just a smart ass.

 

[Tarantula-1]

That's exactly what I've done. Let's see what another 10-12 days of veg triggers.

Thanks, all, for your responses.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i have 5 plants i started 12/12 from seed. all showed sex within 1 week of each other, and they all proceeded to start flowering, except 1. it just continued to branch like yours. i added another half hour to the dark cycle and its flowering with the rest. maybe you should try adding more dark time.

 

[MynameStitch]

Nice plant Ronley! I can't wait til I start growing them trees like I used to grow again!
\

Tran, not showing sex can be signs of strain related and or lighting cycle, my growing exp has shown that when I decrease the light schedule graduly like if the plant was growing outdoors I had a 98% sex shown rate before flowering. Useally 4 weeks of age or a little before they would show sex to where I would use a microscope or magnifying glass to see the sex of the plant, if it's got more than 4 nodes look above the 3rd or 4th node of the plant, this is where the plant will show it's first sex at.

 

[ZeusOGrefugee]

I have a weird mutant Blue Moon Rocks that just started showin pistils @ 36 days!!! She has been my shortest, slowest growing, but healthiest plant since day 1. She has started to put out trichs, and just today, I started to see pistils. This plant has NO internodal spacing at all!!! Im gonna let her flower to full potential and see what I got...u never know, she may turn out to be super potent or something...But yeah, first time I had a plant refuse to show sex...Peace.

- Z

 

[protek]

the problem could be overwatering.
I have had the same problem before and found that I was watering them too much.As soon as I cut the watering times down they showed sex.
Also try using a product from Advanced Nutes called bud blood.
Mine started flowering after 5 days and by 2 weeks they looked 3-4 weeks.
Great product.Saves time and puts them 1 week ahead from start to finish.


Sour Queen

 

[ItsGrowTime]

Cali's take a good while to show sex being sativa dom. Good chance its a girl though so DONT kill it until you know for sure.

 

[Getawaymonkey!]

updates??