SEXING YOUR PLANT

NOTE: Pollen can travel a few km in the right circumstances.

SEXING WHEN MATURE

Female: A Female plant first starts shooting little white hairs called pistils as early as 4 weeks. As it starts to flower, more and more of these appear (a good time to change ferts to something higher in P&K around now by the way).. these eventually swell and get bigger calyxes especially with more P&K.
Male: Males generally are covered in ball shaped things in clusters thee are the pollen sacks (we refer to these as balls) watch out when they start to open. 1 male could ruin your whole grow.. unless you want to breed that is.
Hermie's: Hermie's show both traits... whilst giving you bud and pistils they also contain pollen sacks.. quite often seeding what bud it has on itself and the other plants around it...

hermie


male plant full flowering



(female plant full flowering) NOTE buds all have different characteristics but as long as theres no balls and pistils youll be right


male flowers female flowers


SEXING THROUGH PRE-FLOWERs
note stipules arent a sign of sex.

links pics below


normal pics below



(Female pistillate pick on the right)

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)

Image courtesy of PLAYn


Image courtesy of PsycoXul

Note: The plant parts marked with an "X" are called "stipules", they appear on both male and female plants.


This diagram shows the difference (on a slightly more mature plant) between genuine pre-flowers and actual bud sites, which are - in fact different animals altogether.



From a further distance, but quite clear-cut.
I know how it is for some of the newer growers who are eagerly anticipating their first view of an actual marijuana flower. Well, this is what it looks like, play your cards right and you'll have thousands of these hairs clumped tightly together and covered in crystals that will smell so nice. Don't worry, it's coming.



thanks to all the web sites i got the pics from... and moggie whom i got some of the info from
oh
and rollitup & google too


heres some real bud pics... And maturing females... yaaay bud porn thanks google

more female buds growing


and some dried ones

a big thank you to google lol
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