6 mature or 12 immature plants. what is mature????

ok was just going thru some threads and i saw one that was asking if you can have a combination of mature and immature plants if its max 18 or max 12.... anyways my question isnt about that but what is mature.... most ppl take the 6 mature plants means 6 plants nuged up and all in middle of budding... but technically mature is when a plant is sexed.... when it turns male or female then it is mature... so technically if you take clones then they are mature when you cut them so you can only have 6 clones...?? if you grow from seed then u can have 12 untill you find out which are males or females then its down to 6?? or do they mean nugged up... do the police have to see nugs on them...??? maybe this might be one i have to call up my local police station and find out...

no one has any thoughts about this???

I would like to know as well, good question.

jezzzz

ok a mature plant is a plant that has no longer the ability to have opposing branching , once its mature the plant has alternative nodes ( branches ) , theres a name for this but ill be buggered if i can spell it , reverse polyaxi or somefing like dat

to piss on the fire a plant showing preflowers could also be clased as mature but not by me it wouldnt

yeah pre flowers are basically in puberty .... but still i believe clones would be considered mature plants

so no one really has any input on this huhh??? i need to know my law... hmm to much a gray area

it really is a gray area bottom line is if cops come they are going to try and say all are mature plants