I've now been cutting these pods off several times over the last few days thinking they are male flowers as the pistils/buds are growing fine and definitely look different to the pods I'm removing.

Only thing is, just now I noticed that pistils are growing out of one of the pods I usually cut off! Is it possible I'm cutting off female pods? Or starts of branches or something?!? The pods always come from just above the nodes on the branches.

Please help, it's my first grow and I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing!