When using regular seeds (non-feminized) sometimes I will get a male plant. I will remove it and replace it with another seed and start growing that. As I do not want them, they will just make my female plants seedy if I keep it in there. And since I do not know which strains these are, and my limited amount of plants I can grow by law I will just kill off this plant. As I want four female plants, the max I can have by law at any point during the grow. All and all though its pretty apparent that is a male plant with the flowers forming on it.
Reminds me to check better when getting cannabis seeds to make sure they are feminized, otherwise there is a 50/50 change I will get a male plant. Growing clones can also avoid this issue, but seeds are readily available where I live.. not clones.
The male cannabis plants show their sex earlier than the females, so I hope this is the only male I have to deal with. But its always know for sure until I see the buds forming on the females when they switch over. Since some of these are autos they will switch on their own.. And one of them is a photoperoid which should change to flowering when I switch the lights and timing cycles.
So I will pull it up, and start a new seed. Hopefully the new one will catch up. I will make sure to add the rooting powder to give it a chance to catch up to the others.
It happens, just a part of growing cannabis with regular seeds.. I was expecting one or two just by how common it is.
The other three are doing great, one of them is too young to show its sex yet but the two others sure look like females to me.
Those two I topped are coming back now with new leaves and looking good.
The older one is growing a little faster than the younger one but pretty close to the same.
My male plant is on the bottom left hand side. From a far it just looks like the others. But when you get close you see its "balls"..lol
With it pulled out I compare it to my little hand shovel I use.
Looks like the roots were growing quite nicely. Comparing it to my old plants these roots grew out more to the sides vs the old ones growing straight down mostly. So I will toss out this seedling and start a new one.. hopefully it will be a female.. but you never know for sure.
One last thing, I wanted to show how cool it looks when I add sugar to my yeast bucket. It is really amazing how quickly the yeast reacts to the sugar and starts foaming right away producing lots of carbon dioxide for the plants. They really like the stuff as it helps them grow stronger and faster.
