Thanks Jerry but this has been a disaster!

I had 9 plants and just as you say, ALL of the big strong plants taking up all the room turned out to be male!
I have 2 fucking plants now or 3 if you include the dwarf stuck in the corner about 3 feet away from the light!

For the amount of money I've spent on seeds I could have flown to Amsterdam and scored the same amount of Jack Herer that I'll probably end up with! lol


I'll post some pics later for other noobs/forgetful people but I can't believe how obvious the difference between male and female is!
Its like day and night.

The females didn't show their pistels until well after the boys showed their balls but when they did it was clear.
From what I was reading I thought that the pistels grew out of the balls but in actual fact, there are no balls or anything even remotely ball like on the girls. Its just 2 soft white hairs that come from a point at the nodes.

Anyway, I'll care for my 2.5 children and hope the next 9 weeks goes quickly!
I have some Maple Leaf Indica seeds in germination and these will be my strain for a while as I will grow mothers from this batch.
The bottom line is that 12 weeks is just far too long to have to wait for bud, and I fear that the longer each plant is alive, the longer it has to get moldy or deseased or pests, so cutting 4 weeks off the flowering time is needed unfortunately.