Pre flowers wierd??

On one of my plants i see spear shape long pods, not round. Ad on the end sticking out is hair. I have another plant that has it too but instead of white hair its a green hair/or very skinny hairy lookin leaf emerging, Could be a branch but doubt it. Now my last plant is weird it looks female hair is white but no spear shape pod!! Like its just sticking out of the stem.They are 7-8 weeks old so it should have shown preflowers.
 

gobbly

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sounds to me like you're seeing growing shoots, at least on the one you say has green hair. The other one could be a female preflower, but if you aren't experienced with them, you could easily be seeing an early growing shoot. Pics would help, or just waiting. If it's a bracht and pistol in a week at most it should look defined and be easy to tell. Males, if you let them go for a week or so, are unmistakable once they start to flower. Most of the time I see people make sexing mistakes is because they don't let things evolve long enough and mistake other things (like growing shoots) for signs of balls or hairs.
 

gobbly

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ok well there r little leaves next to the pistols the pistols will be above the green whitish leave
if you are indeed seeing pistols, then it's a female. That's really the question because the growing shoots that pop out of nodes oftentimes do look like pistols for a day or two. magnifiers can help identify stuff early, but in my experience, just waiting a few more days till stuff is more pronounced is the safest way to go. It only takes a few days from the first signs till it becomes obvious, and they are so immature in that time that you really risk nothing by giving it a few days. Look online for as many male/female pics as you can, the more you become familiar with what different strains look like at different stages of growth the better you will get at sexing :) as always, a picture is worth 1000 words, see if you camera has a macro setting, and hold the plant with tweezers, or a twist tie or something :)
 
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