Sexing is a very important knowledge and is needed to be learned as a cannabis grower. Before you even start to produce cannabis on your own you must have at least the idea on what plants can do, and how they produce the natural way. You need to determine which is which, in our case which plants are males and which plants are females. You ask why it would be a problem for me to have males and females at the same time. Simple, male cannabis plants are less potent than female plants.

In nature male plants and female plants normally reproduce by the means of pollination, so it is very important to know which plants are male or female. The purpose of having the knowledge to know which plants are females or males gives us the upper hand in segregating, cannabis need not pollinate for this may cause potency problems. Cannabis plants would show their sex identification in the early first two weeks of the flowering stage, this stage is the critical moment in identifying male from female plants and you need to segregate them now, or destroy male plants.

Male plants can be identified by looking for the “balls” yes male cannabis plants have balls. Where you need to look for these balls is the most important thing in locating your male plant. The balls of the male cannabis plant would be located at the nodes; this is located where the leaf and branch connects.

The ball must be more than one, for you may mistakenly identify a female as a male; you need to make sure its two to three balls forming a small cluster. Once you have located your male plants it’s time to destroy it or transfer it to an alternate room outside from your main grow room, you may need to roll a joint up, you can use the male plant. Or you can make hashish out of your male plant, which ever rocks your boat.

On the other hand, we also need to know the difference from a male plant from the females which we want to keep, in order to spot a female plant you need to look for those white hairs that sprout from your plant, this white hairs acts as a sieve which catches the pollen from male plants. There hairs come from a ball to, but don’t confuse yourself. Female plants only have one ball then eventually splits and two small hairlike thingies come out, they would look translucent. This female plant organ is cold pistils, when the plant is not pollinated pistils change in much solid colour.

After you have identified your grow rooms from male and female plants, its time know to make sure that your plants do go hermaphrodite. Hermaphrodites are plants that have same sexes, hermaphrodites are female plants stressed out and forced to grow another sex, and making it a last fight for survival. Stressed out plants tend to turn into hermies if left out, lack of water, leaked lights on night time and when you let the plant flower for a long time, not having to harvest it may also lead to a hermaphrodite.