Growths and Preflowers

Hi everyone been loving the forum and pictures people have been putting up. I have picked up on loads of ideas already so thank you for that!

I'm kinda new to this, I did grow a plant before but left it too long so I want to get it right this year (if i'm lucky).

Really I just want clarification as a lot of you are masters in your art and probably seen these things before.

With the first picture i have a growth coming out of the V, I'm still scratching my head but if i'd had guess it would be a side branch coming out as the picture shows a similar characteristic of other growing branches. I've seen a couple of examples on forums but none really go into detail and most throw it out thinking it to be a male.

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The other picture shows a scene from aliens, i would like to think of them as females but no doubt it's too early to tell?

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It's my first post and i hope it will be helpful to others who are scratching their heeeds.

Any help or comments will be most welcome!

http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-faqs...ur-plants.html

No sex yet thanks! They've all turned into shoots with leafs.

It turns out that it's female! I can see why people get excited now! :-)

Here's some update images and the royal image. I'm very pleased today.

branch:
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aliens: turns out there's loads more branches! sweet!
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and the royal three pronged beauty:
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Cheers!!