wildwilly420
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is there anyway to tell what sex your plants will be before they flower?
male/female
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beensmoking
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clone the plant and put the clone into flowering early!
mogie
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Preflowers, as opposed to full blown flowers, generally appear after the fourth week of vegetative growth from seed. Check carefully above the fourth node. Please note that preflowers are very small and and almost impossible to differentiate without magnification. A photographer's 10x loupe is handy indeed when examining preflowers.
As the images below demonstrate, the female preflower is pear shaped and produces a pair of pistils. Frequently, the female preflowers do not show pistils until well after the preflowers have emerged. Thus, don't yank a plant because it has no pistils. Pistillate preflowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Also, some female preflowers never produce pistils. A female preflower without pistils is difficult to distinguish from a male preflower. Thus, hermaphodite issues should not be resolved by the appearance of preflowers, without pistils, on a plant otherwise believed to be a female.
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of MrIto
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of Uncle Ben
The male preflower may be described as a "ball on a stick." However, its most recognizable feature is its absence of pistils. Sometimes, a male plant will develop mature staminate flowers after prolonged periods of vegetative growth. These appear in clusters around the nodes.
The following image shows a male plant in early flowering. Staminate flowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Male (staminate)
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Image courtesy of PLAYn
Image courtesy of PsycoXul
As the images below demonstrate, the female preflower is pear shaped and produces a pair of pistils. Frequently, the female preflowers do not show pistils until well after the preflowers have emerged. Thus, don't yank a plant because it has no pistils. Pistillate preflowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Also, some female preflowers never produce pistils. A female preflower without pistils is difficult to distinguish from a male preflower. Thus, hermaphodite issues should not be resolved by the appearance of preflowers, without pistils, on a plant otherwise believed to be a female.
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of MrIto
Female (pistillate)
Image courtesy of Uncle Ben
The male preflower may be described as a "ball on a stick." However, its most recognizable feature is its absence of pistils. Sometimes, a male plant will develop mature staminate flowers after prolonged periods of vegetative growth. These appear in clusters around the nodes.
The following image shows a male plant in early flowering. Staminate flowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch.
Male (staminate)
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Image courtesy of PLAYn
Image courtesy of PsycoXul
wildwilly420
Active Member
Thank you just learned something know to be looking for.. and some of the plants dont get these till the start flowering or is this something i can use to be sure i get no seeds?
7xstall
Well-Known Member
maybe this post will help too:
https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/9817-id-males-collecting-pollen.html
https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/9817-id-males-collecting-pollen.html
Spittn4cash
Well-Known Member
after plants show their pre-flowers you can remove any males and hermi plants, and you will be left will females and have no seeds.
Get on limewire and look for a video called "I grow chronic"..its some weirdo but he does a pretty good job explaining everything. its like his grow journal but its something you watch instead of read...check it out