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Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Learn where you need to look on young cannabis plants to determine gender as soon as 3-6 weeks from when they first germinated!
- Learn how to turn buds or leaves into dry ice hash that will knock your socks off! The process is easy, quick, safe and possibly too rewarding!
- This week, it's three huge cannabis plants vs an actual log cabin! Who will claim victory?
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "To see things in the seed, that is genius."
~Lao Tzu
How to Find Gender
While Plants Are Still Seedlings
by Nebula Haze |
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Example of Male and Female Cannabis Pre-Flowers |
The female plants will soon produce pistils. Wispy white hairs are a sure sign that you’re looking at female pre-flowers. How to Determine Gender of a Young Cannabis Plant
What are cannabis
“pre-flowers?” They are little versions of adult flowers that appear on your marijuana plants relatively early in the vegetative stage.
When I first started growing weed, I learned (incorrectly) that there is no way to determine a cannabis plant’s gender until the flowering stage. But I’ve since learned that pre-flowers can reveal the plant’s sex while it’s still in the vegetative stage! Cannabis
plants grow pre-flowers as young as 3-4 weeks from germination for male plants, and 4-6 weeks from germination for female plants.
Cannabis Pre-Flowers Are Small Versions of Adult Flowers. These reveal a plant’s gender. Knowing the plant gender is helpful because most hobbyist cannabis growers would like to identify and remove male plants from the grow room early in the growing process. This is due to the fact that only female
plants make potent buds/flowers, while male cannabis plants make non-potent pollen sacs where female plants would grow buds. Additionally, female buds need to avoid pollen from male plants in order to make the highest quality cannabis (sinsemilla or “no seeds”).
Cannabis pre-flowers appear at the base of leaves when male plants are about 3-4 weeks old, and female plants are 4-6 weeks old.
Even if you’re not 100% sure about every plant from looking at the pre-flowers, it’s nice to know which plants you need to watch closely and which are definitely female. However, if precision is very important…
Female Pre-Flowers
(these turn into buds) This female pre-flower hasn’t released a wispy white pistil quite yet
But for growers starting with “regular” (non-feminized) seeds, about half of the plants can turn out to be male. And unfortunately, there’s no way to look at a seed and be able to tell what gender it is.
Unfortunately, you can’t tell a cannabis plant’s gender for sure by looking at the seeds 🙁
How to Figure out Sex of a Cannabis Plant by Examining Pre-flowers
Vegetating plants usually reveal their gender when they’re just 3-6 weeks old from seed, but you have to know where to look.
What you’re looking for is “pre-flowers.” These are tiny versions of adult sex parts, and when you see them you can tell what gender the plant is going to be. They usually show up in the upper parts of the plant, closer to the lights, but sometimes you’ll search the whole plant and only find a pre-flower on a random branch lower down on the plant.
Vegetating cannabis plants reveal their gender with “pre-flowers” that usually appear 3-6 weeks from when the plant first germinated. Although these are the general shapes of male and female pre-flowers, if you continue looking through the pictures below, you’ll see there’s quite a bit of variation on what pre-flowers look like from strain to strain. Most male plants have grown a pre-flower by week 3-4 from seed, while female plants don’t show until week 4-6. Basically, all vegetative plants will have revealed their gender by about the 6th week from seed.
So, without further ado, here are pictures showing what you’re looking for when it comes to pre-flowers. Remember, pre-flowers are found at the V where stems meet a main stalk. But pre-flowers don’t usually show up all over the plant. Make sure to look around in different places, especially near the top of the plant and closer to the lights
Note: Pre-flowers show up most often near the
top of the plant and closer to the lights but could be anywhere on the plant. There may be just one on the whole plant so you may have to search all over!
This article is already long and we haven't even gotten to the real stuff yet.
Make Your Own Dry-Ice Hash! |
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When it comes to making hash (a very concentrated form of cannabis), there are several different ways to go about it. Each method is different and has its pros and cons but in my opinion, there's one method to rule them all!
I like the "dry ice hash" method because it's easy, cheap, quick, safe and doesn't use any solvents like butane! You can use this to instantly make hash from buds or leaves.
It is also one of the highest yielding ways to get hash!
Closeup of dry ice hash - it's basically a pile of pure trichomes!
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Dry ice hash is made by putting your buds or leaves into a specially made bag with dry ice (which can be found at certain grocery stores). The bag has a very fine mesh screen at the bottom that will let trichomes (glitter on your buds) through, but not any plant matter. The dry ice is so cold that it literally freezes the trichomes off the buds and they fall through the mesh screen!
You put cannabis and dry ice in a specially made bag and shake. The hash literally falls out the bottom!
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