Barred Rocks aren't one of the breeds that can be sexed by different colors or handy little spots on their heads, unfortunately. Luckily they DO have upright combs, so the little roos will start showing their headgear before the girls do. You'll have to do some chick-to-chick comparisons in your batch. I've come across some male/female characteristics in chickens in general that might help, rather than retype it here I'm going to put in a link to my chicken page: http://home.earthlink.net/~velvetsparrow/VSChickHensBroodiesChicks.htm Day old chicks can be easily sexed by a very experienced, trained professional because at one day old the 'equipment' is right there and obvious. :) After they get a day or two older it becomes difficult, if not impossible. Good luck! :) Velvet ~:>

Whoa, that`s amazing, my old thread popping back to life again. @gardengal: thanks for those cultivar names. I looked them up, according to my (very good) tree book, Autumn gold and Princeton S grow less tall (about 15 - 20 meter) than the plain species (20 meter -30 meter). plans changed, we planted just one Ginkgo (a seedling) which now just needs to keep growing. I looked up the link of the "plants for the future"-site, but as those folks seem rather into "saving the world" and "grow your own" I reckon their detailed botanical knowlegde might be not too scientific, kind of (the angle of branches are often an indicator of age, like: steep angle with juvenile trees, wider angle with mature...IME) inspired by all yous answers I did read up some more on the internet: to summ it up: 1) so, differences between young male or female seedlings in morphology don`t seem to exsist 2) as trees take decades to mature and flowers there are stories around of "transvestite" trees 3) shape of leaves varies very much, not only between different trees but even on one plant that link seemed to offer very solid information solid Ginkgo information and that short one from 1983 seems to be also very well based (have trouble linking that pdf, click the Joa-arboretun-link) Growth, survival and sex expression well, thanks a lot, have a nice week, bye, Lin

Hi Everyone, I bought Kantola (spine gourd ) seeds from someone and tried most of the seeds (about 16 seeds) but none of those were germinated. My dad used to grow this plant and to my knowledge it grows from tubers and it is a perennial plant. If any one has the tuber or plants can I have it please. I don't mind to pay. I also can share seeds if anyone needs. I have green and red amaranth seeds, roselle seeds and jute plants seeds. Thank you everyone. My email address is devpahar74@gmail.com

Celestrina (like many other species of Lepidoptera) are pretty easy to sex even on the wing. With Lycaenidae in general, females tend to have darker and much wider borders on the dorsal wing surfaces than males if both sexes have similar color shemes, and/or a darker more subdued overall color scheme than males do. The food plant list is either short or long depending on which of the three species. Such a broad question would be answered the easiest by your checking already published data, either book or website. A simple search for "Celastrina" will get you all the answers on this genus and its species... BioQuip.com is a good source for lepidopteran books if you want to buy one. L.