Sex Testing Plants by DNA in Canada
I have seen some youtubers recomend it but google did not turn up any Canadian companies.
Posted Feb 28, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC
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https://phylos.bio/plant-sex-test They have office in Surrey, B.C.
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Thanks for this. I thought they were just in the states.
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Follow up. I called them up. Their address in Surrey B.C. is just basically a "forwarding" address for people who don't want to mail it directly to them in Portland, OR. But they only do the tests in Portland, OR, the price is ~$60 usd and you need to register and pay on their website.
So it's an option, but it's not a great one, not a Canadian one.
I contacted synfine-standards.com a couple weeks ago, they offer gender testing for $30 per sample and are in Canada. However they said that they can only test for people who have a Health Canada Licenses to grow. So that rules all the causal home growers. They did say they were "working" on getting a license so they can test for anyone but didn't have any timeline when that would be available.
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Ah! I’ve seen other companies but can’t recall off hand. There is bound to be a market for this in Canada now. Despite the shady legal source of Regular seeds. ;)
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It is so unnecessary. I can usually tell sex after about 3 weeks.
Growing from a clone you can see preflowers that early but from seed theres no chance you'll see anything that early on. You can sex a plant while in veg but its much later than 3 weeks, usually around 6-8 weeks in my experience.
Lmao alrighty then. I must be lying.
Must be an inexperienced grower or someone talking out their ass to be honest. I've done countless seed grows and have never once seen preflowers 3 weeks in and that includes auto strains.
I've grown two auto, and they started flowering at 22 and 19 days, respectively, just saying!
Nice. Well enjoy
It's handy if you're looking at breeding. Cutting clones from 50+ plants, documenting and taking up a flowering tent for like three weeks is kind of clunkly.
I believe it's called phylos testing, but I haven't tried it myself.
Yeah, I have read about it. I see no need, but to each their own.
C'mon man, someone over at microgrowery told me plants don't have a sex until they're put to flower. (no /s cuz it they legit did that and I got the downvote brigade lol).
Sure they can. It's called preflowers
I know this, this person thought it was a kinder egg surprise at flower time.