Male, Female or Hermie? 🔬 Official Sex Identification Topic

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Female

Showing white pistils coming from the preflower. The hairs can be hard to see without using a magnifying glass.

Tip: Wait for the hairs to appear before killing it. Wait for the balls to appear before killing it, be patient.

Another female:

Notice the tear shaped preflowers and pistils coming from it:

Well developed female:

Male

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Clusters of balls:

Well developed male:

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On removing males

Other references:

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What do you guys think. This is MelvinZ (Zkittlez clone x ( The One x Z-cubed). It’s feminized and had been going really well up to now. I went to water it this morning before lights off and saw this. I was really looking forward to this plant as I had originally started 5 seeds and this was the only one I have. I had just bought the seeds a couple months ago direct from breeder.

And a photo of Mothermilk f2 for reference that was started at same time. Also there are more photos on my grow thread of both the MM and MelvinZ and others. I want to confirm my suspicion before I reach out to breeder, :pray:

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There is always a small chance of a feminized seed being just male. It is very small but it is there. I only see male parts.

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If it was just a male I could then potentially use it to make seeds with.?.?.? I had taken 2 snips, before I had flipped to flowering, about 10-12 days ago. Should I do something with them.?.?.?

Also for transparency sake, I reached out to the breeder, Seattle Chronics/Rab/Capt Stubing and he has responded already offering to replace the pack or send something else from what he has available.

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2/3 males now I have 3 diffrent males gonna have to make a decision who’s cooler fast lol

Don’t know why this one had to take 8 weeks to show

For every thousand fem seeds, one of them comes out male. Due to the 99.9% Probability of being female.

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