Female Preflower

Roger Louis

Member
I am wondering do female preflowers cluster around the top of the plant. I'm aware that males have a tendency for this around the nodes of the plant, but during preflower is it normal to find clusters at the top no matter the sex or is it a sign of a male. Thanks
 

Roger Louis

Member
Thank you, those are really great close ups. Do you happen to know though if female preflowers cluster in group or is that a characteristic of males only? I know of course that males do this... but wondering about the females.
 
so there can jus be one pistil instead of two????????????? i gotta plant drivin me nuts jus showin one of what looks to be a hair, instead of two!!!!!!!!
 

upthearsenal

Well-Known Member
^It can just be one man... you have nothing to worry about, in fact, you have a female and should be happy :D
 
^It can just be one man... you have nothing to worry about, in fact, you have a female and should be happy :D
thanx bro im still kinda worried tho, she's confusing me, at most nodes, the preflower just looks like a hair. no green growth uder it or anything, then on other nodes it has the green growth (preflower) and it just comes to a sharp point and the very tip is whit on them, lol i know i could jus wait its jus throwing me off!!
 

manditroy

Active Member
You may be confusing the single 'hair' as a preflower when it is actually something called a stipule. Stipules are pointed hair-like spikes that come out at every node (there are usually a pair - one on either side of where every leaf stem attaches). They are on both male and female plants and will be seen at every node, although their appearance will vary depending upon how new the growth is. Older stipules will be larger and thicker and often stand out farther from the stem, younger new growth will sometimes look like a hair from a female preflower but without the 'pod-like' growth. If you're seeing singular growths that appear pointed, rather than groupings of more rounded ones, you should be seeing hairs eventually. The boys will usually show faster, and always give themselves away with their multiple pods. In any case, you have plenty of time before they would be mature enough to pollinate any girls. Give it a few days to be sure they're really growing balls before you chop them. It will be very obvious long before they're a danger, and you don't want to toss a girl by mistake!
 

upthearsenal

Well-Known Member
^ good point, didn't think of that.

For it to be a pistil it HAS to be a white hair, like the ones you see in an early flowering female.
 

it looks jus like this. you dag gone right i love my ladies, lol, thanx for the lil lesson, you actually know what your talkin bout, im not confusing the stipules with pre flower tho the stipules are easily visible, the pre flowers are behind them in between the stalk and stem, new growth has already turned into branches, , let me explain a lil better, i wish i had a camera that would zoom good enough to show you, and i know you cant tell me much without seeing it, but heres what i got, at the first couple nodes i got four preflowers at each node ( you know one in each "croch" lol, and there kinda like pear shaped and come to a sharp point and are white on the very tip then the next couple of nodes, it dont look like a regular preflower like on the top which im guessing jus isnt showing me clearly yet, but rather just one hair coming out of each node, i dont see the green preflower growth at all just one hair with tiny white tips coming out of each crotch, of course im gonna give (her) more time but what do you think?????
 

upthearsenal

Well-Known Member
^that sounds weird man. I guess the only time to do is wait and see. How old is the plant?

You can always clone to sex... speaking of which I got some cloning to do, can't procrastinate anymore lol...
 
lol hope you got er did!! anyways i grow outdoor, the plant is bout 2 1/2 months, ive never cloned before i dont wanna mess up my beautiful babies!!!!! lol
 

HeavyHebrew

Member
Thanks for the heads up on stipules, manditroy. It's people like you helping us newbs that make this world a better place.
 

manditroy

Active Member
Thanks for the heads up on stipules, manditroy. It's people like you helping us newbs that make this world a better place.
Thanks Heavy! I'm actually kind of a newb myself, as I've been growing less than a year...but I have done A LOT of reading here on RIU and other sites, so I try to help out if I have a link or info that might help another grower along the way. Growing up as a kind of nerdy bookworm has definitely had its rewards - now, I use that side of myself to help with my new favorite hobby of growing!

Yeah wilderbuds, I'm gonna agree with upthearsenal...I don't know just what you got going there, but give it some time and it will sort itself out. It may be just another girl with some idiosyncracies that doesn't like to conform to standards (there are a lot of us like that -lol). When it has a few more days growth, it should become clear enough.
 

Xeno420

Active Member
Pre-flower clusters do tend to bunch up on the tops but it's on the node and not on the apical growth. The closer the light, the tighter the internodes, the more P-F calyxes.
 

upthearsenal

Well-Known Member
lol hope you got er did!! anyways i grow outdoor, the plant is bout 2 1/2 months, ive never cloned before i dont wanna mess up my beautiful babies!!!!! lol
At that age the plant should really be sexually mature, ie. busting out preflowers. Are the nodes alternating?
 
I gotta baby girl she throwing pistils now!!! Thanx for all your help guys!!!!!!! Now i jus got to wait for the rest of them for some reason this one was way ahead of sceduele ususlly dont show sexual maturaty till around the middle of july around here but anyway thanx guys!!!!!!!!!
 
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