Are preflowers reliable to ID sex

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How often would you say you found a female preflower but it turned out to be male?

Me personally, never. Every time a plant had a female preflower it was female. Have seen hermaphrodites from a plant with female preflowers, but never a full on male?

Anyone else?

Which book exactly is this in? Author?

irydyum Reviewed by irydyum on 07-15-2009. Are preflowers reliable to ID sex This is out of the Marijuana Growers Guide- "The presence of premature female flwoers does not assure that the plant is a female, but premature male flwoers almost always indicate a male plant. Unfortunately, it is much less common for male plants to develop premature male flowers than for female flwoers to appear on ether plant. For example, in one garden of 25 mixed variety plants, by age 14 weeks, 15 plants showed well-formed, premature flowers with raised stigmas. Eight of these Rating: 5