Early sexing?
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nongreenthumb
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I was 13 she was 12 felt kinda weird, now I'm older i love it i'd say wait.
mogie
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What are preflowers?
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
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
mogie
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For even more info and lots of detailed pics go to https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=category&id=53
lemon piff!
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Nodes are the stems, v shaped. Basically every new growth (v shaped) is a node. each node sprouts. In node corners (in the v) buds sprou
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1982grower
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you cant verify sex by preflowers. many strains will fool you this way. just cover a small branch on the plant you want to sex. use a paper bag to cover it for 12 hours. then after you know the sex just reveg the plant to the size you want. before flowering there is really no way of knowing. dont trust preflowers unless you really know the strain. good luck
welshsmoker
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you can go 12/12 from seed mate, and imho most strains i have grown havent shown pre flowers..
SnakierGrizzly
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yeh i wish i could know the sex before i grew mine too but theres no way unless you go and purchase seeds that are presexed
spazamunky
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RRFN, I think its too early to tell tbh
sorry just realised that post is over 2 years old
hope you got some decent bud off of it 
spazamunky