Why would i repeat myself to noobs like you.
Im not the one posting constant herm threads suffering confusion.
Your nubbins didnt grow into preflowers like i said and the real preflowers showed up with patience showing female - i did explain but shits like you just want to dick this site with constant broscience.
You were wrong then your refusal to admit it has led you to have to post this thread. What stupidity anger and broscience lol.
LOL, I am a glutton for punishment. Being called a “shit” who wants to “dick this site” with “broscience” must somehow appeal to my inner masochist, since I’m genuinely interested in what you and others make of this.
As an update, I decided to just go with the flow and see what happened with these weird pre-flowers. And what happened was weird.
The female with the single male-looking pre-flower at the start of this thread got flipped to 12/12 in a tent over a month ago. While the male preflower turned out to be a full-on male — pollen sacs began emerging — there were no other male flowers anywhere on the plant.
Weird right? I’d expect a true hermie to have male flowers elsewhere.
In any case, the plant has now completed 6 weeks of flowering and I figure it can go another 5-6 weeks. (Please let me know what you think on this point as well, pics attached.)
I removed the male flower that formed from that odd pre-flower and haven’t had a problem since. I’ve been monitoring closely and there have been no male flowers and the female flowers have zero nanners or anything.
So has anyone else heard of a crazy one-off male pre-flower on an otherwise female plant before?
To further complicate matters, I mentioned in my original posts that other female plants also had occasional suspicious looking preflowers. None of those turned out to be a problem. See, I am willing to concede a point
@2Hearts!
Either they just disappeared (perhaps aborted) or they’ve just apparently grown into an oddly-located random leaf in a couple cases.
I am willing to concede that
@2Hearts has a point about oddball or indeterminate pre-flowers. Based on what I’ve described here, it certainly appears that a weird pre-flower isn’t necessarily dispositive of whether the entire plant is male or female.
However, in my defense, another plant that I judged to be a male based on the pre-flower (which drew mockery from
@2Hearts) is now producing male pollen sacks that are about to open. All the plants I judged to be female based on pre-flowers have also turned out to be female. I’m not talking shit, but just pointing out the basic logistical fact that I had to take an educated guess since I don’t have the capacity to grow out an acre of 8-foot plants until I’m 100 percent sure of sex.
Anyhow, I will wrap up this ramble fest by positing a theory — perhaps a dumb one — that the indeterminate male-looking pre-flower in my original post may have turned out to be harmless had I not switched to 12/12 so early.
Perhaps he would have dropped off or grown into a leaf, as apparently happened on other plants. Is it possible that cannabis sends out the occasional oddball pre-flower as a hedge of some sort? Like, if it’s a seed that would germinate late in the year with no nearby males, that little pre-flower might have gotten the job done?
