Male or Female Flowers?
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bigbillyrocka
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bigbillyrocka
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Not necessarily screwed up. Regular seeds have a 50/50 chance at being male or female. They (females) will have white hairs coming out of the calyx. Instead yours are "Balls" or pollen sacs. Well you may have removed the wrong ones. lol. So hes your last one standing eh?
bigbillyrocka
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bigbillyrocka
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Fem seeds can be a bit more finicky than regular. But easy to grow. Males aren't bad, not from my (and many others) stand point, but only if you had a few females in there. Sorry pal, next time don't cull em till you know for sure.
kryptoniteglo
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My plants are just starting to flower -- and they both look like they have dozens of tiny balls on them. But when I wait a day or two, those balls push out leaves, so they're really new leaf growth. I've been on 12/12 for about a week, and I'm thinking I'm really going to have to wait another week or so to know for sure.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of new growers throw out potential females because they see the new leaf growth in the bud area (which looks like tiny round balls) and think those are pollen sacs. It's only because I was curious to see what would happen, since both plants were exhibiting the same characteristics. Now that I've waited and see that's actually tiny leaf growth, I realize I have to be looking for something else to happen.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of new growers throw out potential females because they see the new leaf growth in the bud area (which looks like tiny round balls) and think those are pollen sacs. It's only because I was curious to see what would happen, since both plants were exhibiting the same characteristics. Now that I've waited and see that's actually tiny leaf growth, I realize I have to be looking for something else to happen.
MajorCoco
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That isn't likely. The hair is pretty quick to show unless you're really, really impatient.
It may be remotely possible to mistake the tiny starting bud of a side branch for balls. I almost did that once when I was a total noob. Luckily I wasn't sure, so I left it growing....unless they were only a few inches high when you killed them I daresay you didn't make that mistake either, so just chalk it up to bad luck and hope you luck turnaround next season!
It may be remotely possible to mistake the tiny starting bud of a side branch for balls. I almost did that once when I was a total noob. Luckily I wasn't sure, so I left it growing....unless they were only a few inches high when you killed them I daresay you didn't make that mistake either, so just chalk it up to bad luck and hope you luck turnaround next season!
MajorCoco
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Ha..I swear I didn't see this until after I'd posted mine above!
Yeah I agree it with you. Luckily, it is the sort of mistake you only make once...as long as you leave them to grow out at least once I guess
kryptoniteglo
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Ha..I swear I didn't see this until after I'd posted mine above!
Yeah I agree it with you. Luckily, it is the sort of mistake you only make once...as long as you leave them to grow out at least once I guess
Of course, maybe I do have two males, but I see a hair, too, here and there. I'm pretty sure I'm just seeing what everyone else with NO EXPERIENCE is seeing. I mean, technically these are balls -- little round spheres the size of pin heads. I saw them and was dismayed. But the next day, some had become leaves, so they're obviously not pollen sacs. And now there are also more of these tiny balls, but I've see a tiny hair here and there, too.
So I know I really just have to wait until it's more clearly obvious. But, honestly, if these end up being females, I'll be pretty sure a lot of female plants get chucked just as they're about to flower because people make assumptions that all the little spheres are pollen sacs, when in fact they might just be rounded leaf growth that hasn't pushed out yet.
MajorCoco
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Haha. Yeah dude..I was agreeing with you. Thought the same myself when I was a noob, which is why I also mentioned it to the OP (I just though it was funny that you wrote that just before me, and I didn't want you to think I was just copying your answer!!
)As soon as you see a pistil (I don't like the word hair, since weed plants have a few types of hair on them!) you know it's a female (or potentially a hermie...of course, but you know what I mean!)
kryptoniteglo
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Haha. Yeah dude..I was agreeing with you. Thought the same myself when I was a noob, which is why I also mentioned it to the OP (I just though it was funny that you wrote that just before me, and I didn't want you to think I was just copying your answer!!
As soon as you see a pistil (I don't like the word hair, since weed plants have a few types of hair on them!) you know it's a female (or potentially a hermie...of course, but you know what I mean!)
Yup! Thanks for the encouragement...and I didn't think you were copying my answer! I know that people sometimes answer when they're on the first page without going further down -- it's all good! Lets the poster get a variety of answers, or concurrence as in our case, which is good. If mine do end up female (and I really think I'll know for sure in a few days), then I'll know what to say to other people on their first grow!
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