Male, Female or Hermie? 🔬 Official Sex Identification Topic

[LemonadeJoe]

This is official identification thread. First post is wiki and you are welcome to update this post. First post should serve as a tutorial or guide featuring most illustrative examples of plant sex.

Post your photos as a reply to this topic to get your plants identified.

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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

Clusters of balls:

Well developed male:

Tips:

About tools

@ifish

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It comes of the stand and will get you closer to where you need to be looking : )

Yes nothing showing yet on that pic from here : )

On removing males

@SeriousPaul

Spray it with water before you remove it when there is any pollen it will not pollinate anymore

Other references:

• How do I determine a female sex plant from a male?

[Gato]

Fine folks of OG please help me out, are these dudes or should I wait a bit more?

[yardgrazer]

I’m thinking yes, males, but it’s a little hard to see.

[Gato]

Sorry for the crap quality pics lol I was in a awkward angle lol

[Trimeresurus]

Hoping for a little help with sex ID… I’ve got two plants here. Here’s a shot of the pre-flowers of the first one.

And a shot of a top that was put on 12/12 about a week ago.

Here’s the second plant’s pre-flowers…

and a flipped cut that looks a little rough…

I don’t know if it’s still too early to tell.

[Gato]

That looks female… i don’t know about mine though

She is starting to look like a he

[Flower]

I can’t say for sure on either one of them.
I would definitely let both go a little longer, I am not the greatest at sexing them in the early stages.

[Tejas]

That’s looking like a boy.

[George]

I would say the first is a dude

The second looks like a lady but I am not so sure …

[luxton]

I’m thinking male… Maybe too early?

[Star_Dog]

Hey bud, pics 1, 3 look male to me?

@Gato your plant look like male to bud?

@luxton it’s difficult call I’d give them more time.

Good luck everyone

[luxton]

Another day showed what I didn’t want to see… He came down today

[Gato]

@luxton trust me I feel you, I took down 3 yesterday. Restarted the same night… hopefully we have some better luck next time lol

[luxton]

Ouch! That’s almost half my garden!

Only being allowed to grow a limited number of plants sucks, hahaha.

[George]

I agree it looks like a dude, sorry man …

[luxton]

Thank you…

Sadly, he came down today…

He had wicked structure after supercropping too

Sigh, on to the next, right?

[George]

Bet he had a tough life , glad he finally found some rest , better luck with next one …

Edit: I’m on the non supercropping, no HST side …

[GYOweed]

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[George]

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