Preflowers - Clusters

I know male and female preflowers can look similar without magnification, but do female preflowers ever come in clusters the way males do?

Generally no - male clusters are huge. There can be as many as 30-50 preflowers near a node. With female preflowers, there is a single preflower, sometimes two (on each side of the node). In addition, the females will show usually a single or dual pistil extending from the node, whereas the males do not. Even in *very* early preflowering, females usually exhibit at least a single pistil. If you have more than 3-4 preflowers in a single confined space at a node, it is probably male or hermie. Let it flower a little more to be sure, but chances are it is male. If there are less than 3-4 preflowers, then you will absolutely want to flower it longer because sometimes pistils will hide a little longer than usual and it would not be cool to hack a late blooming lady.

Pictures? Many of us can probably tell you what you have if we can see the preflowers...

cool, thanks! I can't post pics yet, my camera is terrible. I'm getting a better one sometime this year for school though. Right now, I'm on the 5th node. 2 nodes have preflowers. One node has 1 preflower on each side, while the node above it has 2 preflowers on each side. I'm still in the veg stage, and plan to veg all of them out for another month before actually flowering any of them. The plant I'm talking about in this post is 4 weeks old, and still in the veg state. It's preflowers look like "balls on the end of a tiny stick" rather than "pear-shaped, usally with pistils" so I think its a male (I'm going to veg it out longer to be sure). Luckily, I have others.