Sexing Skunk

Hi all--

I am a first time grower. This forum has been very helpful so far. My plants are sexing, I think, and one of them appears to be a male. Before I get rid of him, I just wanted to get some expert opinions.

Thanks in advance!

those look like balls

Thats what I was thinking. But it's hard to tell from pictures of other people's plants. The thing that made me notice is that this one looks a lot different than my other plants, which I believe are all female.

most males that i have found in my mix usually have faster growth and a bit slimmer, but everything is different...

pull the fucker before it jacks up females

fr1endar said:

Thats what I was thinking. But it's hard to tell from pictures of other people's plants. The thing that made me notice is that this one looks a lot different than my other plants, which I believe are all female.

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its a male pull that shit, in my expirience males show sex faster then fems

Thanks so much for the replies. You guys are 100% sure it's a male?

By the way, I heard you can cook with the leaves. Not as potent as buds, but it will work, no? thanks! You guys rule!

im 100% sure its a male.

It's a Male fore sure man, better luck next time

Everyone gets them bro, i guess the world would be better without males.

wopnasty said:

It's a Male fore sure man, better luck next time

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That's okay. I have 6 others I think are female!

It's best with that many females to chop, but I read for thc content, female flower first, male flower/leaves, second. I have one from my last grow and i'm making seeds with one branch of my female, should be good, afgan indica crossed with ?/sativa. Cheaper than buying them.

I'm growing the male until he don't wanna grow anymore and see if there's any thc.

Father Earth said:

Everyone gets them bro, i guess the world would be better without males.

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Actually, it wouldn't be.

I worked with insects for many years (venomous ones at that - look out!!). Suprisingly within the taxonomic order of "bugs" I worked with there are actually two distinct types of reproduction which has been thoroughally documented both in the wild and captivity. One obviously sexual reproduction (ie, mating/pollenation if we were discussing plants). The other would be asexual or parthenogenesis (ie, natural cloning).

In the insects I studied (as well as others), we found that the few parthenogenic species we dealt with all had their perks and issues. On one hand, as soon as individuals matured, these would immediately gestated and produce multiple sets of offspring in less than a year. This was special - for one, parthenogenesis isn't common in scorpions realitive to the immense number of species in the world, second they gestate extremely quickly under optimal conditions and third, unforunately this was a fairly toxic species that actually occurs in a part of Brazil that is quite inhabitated.

On the other hand, a select few researchers in the USA had there hands on sexually reproducing specimen of the same species. Studies on those populations found that while the females took longer to gestate and did need to be mated. Offspring were larger, of more quantity and more stable. Theres obviously much more to the research but how much can I bore you fellas?

The point is - when you encorporate male populations (ie, another set of gentics) things work out so much more wonderfully. In the case of the above, when you have parthenogenesis and each specimen (female/"hermie") subsequently produces multiple clone females/"hermies"... you've literally got nowhere to go but down! But just like taking clones in our world - it has it's perks to them as well. I don't know the math but imagine starting with 2, each has a brood of 15 twice per year and there is a 6 month maturity before each brood grows and makes their own. Thats enough to make a population into the 1000's VERY quickly.


Like I said, sorry for the bore but there is a true life biological example of why we need males.


Cheers,
Bud