Do Females have?

more budsites than males? This question is for all the experienced growers that have seen and might have sense what a female plant might look like. I know its hard to tell in the veg stage, but are there clues that can help sex the plants before pre-flower stage/flower stage? Similar to the fact that females are generally shorter than males.

My logic is that female plants are the pollen receptors, thus evolution would make them have more flower/bud sites? The males do not need that many bud sites since they are producing only pollen.

any chance this generalization about more bud sites being female? or did i smoke too much today?

btw.. check out my bagseed plant 51 days into veg from seed.

Male plants don't have "bud sites", they simply have male flowers.
If you're referring to the individual growing tips then no you can't use that as a determining factor & by the looks of it you've tied down that plant to create more tops so it'll be somewhat difficult to tell what it "would" have looked like unaltered.

In short, wait until you see some flowers, then you'll know.

How to sex a plant during veg. After day 40 they will show sex. You may need a scope to see.


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GreatwhiteNorth said:

Male plants don't have "bud sites", they simply have male flowers.
If you're referring to the individual growing tips then no you can't use that as a determining factor & by the looks of it you've tied down that plant to create more tops so it'll be somewhat difficult to tell what it "would" have looked like unaltered.

In short, wait until you see some flowers, then you'll know.

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Doesn't the tops eventually become bud sites for the females? and yes, the males have pollen sac structures on their perspective tops. I guess there's no way to tell besides pre-flowers and vegging til it shows the sex.

GreatwhiteNorth said:

Male plants don't have "bud sites", they simply have male flowers.
If you're referring to the individual growing tips then no you can't use that as a determining factor & by the looks of it you've tied down that plant to create more tops so it'll be somewhat difficult to tell what it "would" have looked like unaltered.

In short, wait until you see some flowers, then you'll know.

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Unless hermie

Male plants do produce buds. Very little though. The males that are more hemp than not tend to not have or has less flowers than other males. Hemp like males are bad selections for breeding. You want a male that produces some super frosty flowers.

hyroot said:

Male plants do produce buds. Very little though. The males that are more hemp than not tend to not have or has less flowers

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So male plants without manupilation of structure (topping,lst,supercrip) have less tops? Or do growers see equal amounts of tops for male vs female in hindsight ?

Again this question is for Experience growers ( less than 10 grows do not apply)

Females will always have more buds than any male. Like I said. Males produce very little bud. Hemp leaning males do not produce any bud. The number of tops, everything depends on strain, pheno type, geno type, veg time, pot size, soil or hydro or coco, temp, humidity, lighting, nutrients, organics, synthetics, chemicals, plant health, breeding practices, genetic selection, etc... Too many variables for an overall definitive answer.

Threads like this ruin this site imo where the op states in one of the above posts ( less the 10 grows need not apply) thus is a forum you can't stop people from commenting on posts, and in the end you just look like a complete bellend asking will females have more bud sites than males? Well duh, of course a female will have more bud sites than a male as males don't produce bud! They pollinate females!!! I haven't had 10 grows but yet I know the answer to your question! Just saying!!

dopechess said:

So male plants without manupilation of structure (topping,lst,supercrip) have less tops? Or do growers see equal amounts of tops for male vs female in hindsight ?

Again this question is for Experience growers ( less than 10 grows do not apply)

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I'm finishing grow 6 going to 7 and only been in the game since last Christmas....
I thaut exactly like you said hight and flowering site's could determine the sex...

This was grow 5 at the time

I did my self a test threw 6 afghani regular from herbies all popped same day all repotted together but only two had longer nodes that the other four wich were short in structure...
This was around week 5 from sprout so dumped the tall one's and kept the 4 shorties and put them in the flowering room expecting four fems due to the structure and grew like Christmas tree's..

Out of four two within first week we're male's and other two fems.. I was baffled.

So from there I knew I wouldn't be able to get regular seeds and judge em by how they grow structure wise.. Fems is the way forward.

I did this only once a because the wife went crazy and wouldn't allow me to pop that meny seeds no more lol...untill it's legalised that is .

And the reason I did that is because a friend had a bunch of blueberry reg and thaut they were fems so he grew being a noob he flowerd and called me three weeks in he has a female thats all male lol when I got there it has flowers like all the other ladies same hight too but all male pollens.. I never grew a male that far so I never seen that before either so it got the chop lol.
Just thaut I'd share my noob experience..

THCBrain said:

Threads like this ruin this site imo where the op states in one of the above posts ( less the 10 grows need not apply) thus is a forum you can't stop people from commenting on posts, and in the end you just look like a complete bellend asking will females have more bud sites than males? Well duh, of course a female will have more bud sites than a male as males don't produce bud! They pollinate females!!! I haven't had 10 grows but yet I know the answer to your question! Just saying!!

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first of all i wasn't try to knock anyone. i wanted more experience guys that have seen it all. Maybe this is a stupid question, but there is logic behind it. I am a biologist and in there is a thing called evolution. There must be some inherit trait that distinguishes females from males besides seeing pistils and balls. So, sorry if i offended anyone... and all are welcome to comment.. i take back my comment of about 10 grows are more.

dopechess said:

first of all i wasn't try to knock anyone. i wanted more experience guys that have seen it all. Maybe this is a stupid question, but there is logic behind it. I am a biologist and in there is a thing called evolution. There must be some inherit trait that distinguishes females from males besides seeing pistils and balls. So, sorry if i offended anyone... and all are welcome to comment.. i take back my comment of about 10 grows are more.

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I'm sorry but I don't see any correlation whatsoever between evolution and sexing a plant.
In that there are so many crosses out there now even seeds from the same mother can/will have vastly variate phenotypes so sexing plants judging by structure, node spacing or any other physical characteristic is a crap shoot at best IMHO.
My 02.

In a nutshell? the answer is no...there is no way to tell if a plant is female by the number of "bud sites"

No offence taken buddy hope you find the answer, only experimented once with the same query as you.. If you do find out let me know

Too bad there isn't any sexual dimorphism before the flower stage. Thanks everyone for your valued opinion.