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:

Tips:

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On removing males

Other references:

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It’s been 7 days since Iswitched to 12/12 and I suspect one of the plants to be a hermie. can you help me with it?

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Its too early to tell anything, buddy.

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Molokai Frost, seems male, but it’s take a long time to show anything.



To early to tell I would say. Ime the top 2 or 3 nodes will show first whether male or female. Are they regular or feminized.?

@splinter7 I don’t see anything from those pics to indicate nor make or female. How long did they veg before starting flowering light cycle .?

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Id say its a male

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@Sohrab : female
@splinter7 : male

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12 days of 12/12. it’s molokai frost regs

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im killing it. thank you everyone

ya, when the flower nodule is separated that far down the stem it’s always been male for me.
i had someone come look at it last night and they also said male.
i planted two of these and no dice. it’s a short male…i wonder if it’s work keeping around.

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Can you explain what you mean by this im not following, my eyes just see male or female, what is this indicator you are referring to.

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the male sex part, the pistol, forms a node or nodule (balls?). It’s often offset from where i find the female stamen which are closer inset to the crotch/vertex of the leaf and main stem.

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From the shape it looks like a pollen sac, but can’t you see a small white pistil? Or is this just an optical illusion from my old low definition phone?

Thanks
Regular seeds. top portion of the plant seems like female.
only this tiny part in the photo seemed like male preflower to me.
here is another photo of it:

Calix and pollen sac can look alike at times. I would wait a few more days to be sure

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Hey bud yes I’ve noticed this aswell tbh only recently.
I wasn’t certain but now you confirm it i know I’m not imagining that :+1:

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right on bro. I never heard anyone else mention it either. cool.

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@Talygrow i didn’t think so.

this was @PotCom 's pic, it’s super male, but has those little tips…i think of them as hooks. if it has hooks, totally male
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Sorry but I don’t understand what I said wrong

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nothing dude. i was just saying i didn’t think it was a hair and that the male parts have this little hook/hair thing on their tips when developing.

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