Male or Female or too early?
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Nullis
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Pictures are too blurry, not close up enough on the nodes. This is where you wanna look (where the node meets the main stem). A female flower, or single calyx, looks just like a cone with two [white] hairs protruding. A male flower looks like a sac of balls.
Don't be confused by the green 'hairs' on the base of the stem at each branch (node), those are not flowers or pre-flowers.
Don't be confused by the green 'hairs' on the base of the stem at each branch (node), those are not flowers or pre-flowers.
kermit2692
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^ the green hairs are called stipules and i agree too hard to see in the pics, get closer
intenseneal
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LOL How is that pic any better. Hard to tell.
Dubsy
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hahaha ya i kno i just found it lookin threw the folder.
kermit2692
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shouldnt really call that a hair or your going to confuse ppl..only a female pistil will produce a "hair" and a male pollen sack has little leaf type things surrounding it that i dont know the exact name of and dont really look like hairs...also the pistil IS the preflower if its female, a preflower doesnt grow a pistil..preflower is just a term for an action not an actual piece of anatomy, so its a pistil whether its in a bud or down at the node as an early indicator of sex...i know what you mean if a preflower is that big and you dont have white hairs yet its probably male, just elaborating tho...
dimebong
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There is nothing else i can call it if i don't know the name of it. "Hair" was the
most descriptive name i could think of. I included the picture so people
would know what i am talking about. If i found the real name for it which
is probably some strange Latin word, i'd still have to call it a hairlike
growth.
And i've course the pistils are part of the preflower. That's kind of obvious. That's why i used the
word "Appeared on the preflower." Not "Grew."
Peace
Nullis
Moderator
Change the aperture to like f 2.5 or 2.8, try changing to a faster shutter speed if you can't hold the camera really still (~1/125 or 1/180) and use the macro if available (looks like a flower usually). Try it with the flash off if you can get good lighting in the room without it. Get up in there and take a bunch of practice shots until you get it, you should be able to see the detail in relatively high quality right on the LCD of the digital camera.