How to tell if your plant is female or male / what are pre flowers

[biggreenbuds]

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)

^ female (Pistillate)

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)

^ this is showing what a male pre flower looks like.... a male pre flower looks like almost a little nut of a acorn. its very small but it will not put out any white hairs - pistols

^ this is showing how to identify a female pre flower. a female pre flower will show a calyx with 2 little white hairs coming out which are called the pistols

~Bgb

[Anatolian]

You have to be careful to environmental factors during in vegetative stage that influence gender are :

a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.

a higher potassium concentration will give more males.

a higher humidity will give more females.

a lower temperature will give more females.

more blue light will give more females.

Fewer hours of light will give more females.