This question?.is it a male?..is it a female?..comes up so often that I thought that I??d try to consolidate information in one spot. This isn??t so much new information as I??ve seen a lot of this posted elsewhere?.just an attempt to ??bring it all together?.

The Genotype used here is a nostalgia strain called ??Gainesville Green?. It??s a hybrid and quite sativa dominate?..if in fact others experience different results with different strains then this is the place to show and tell.

We will always have new growers here (the teachers of tomorrow) so I??ll start off with the basics. A male nanners, anthers, or balls (technically a male calyx) and a female ??calyx?.
As we progress into early recognition I??ll probably just use the word ??nub? (for which I??ll probably take some heat) as theoretically it isn??t mature enough to be either one yet.

We??ll start off with a picture of balls (male). These are developed enough that there is no doubt as to their sex. I won??t be posting anything more developed here as I??ll be working to the less developed end of the spectrum. For new growers and experienced alike?..here??s a link sent to me by Weezard dedicated to pictures of males only. https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=130287 Just beautiful, thanks for the contribution Weeze.

The important thing for the beginner to study is the overall shape of the pod?.it??s fullness and it??s taper (or lack there of). Getting that feeling in mind will help us as we regress to the lesser developed ??nubs?.
Notice also that the nanners come in clusters and that this early on the calyx (calyces) stand alone. Later on when the calyx cluster?..that??d be your buds?.Bud!
For the beginner notice that both calyx and nanners both develop at the internode junctions.

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And we??ll work our way backwards to some a little less obvious. They??re actually much harder to see with the naked eye?.thankfully the magnification of the camera shows the true character earlier on.

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Higher up even the camera doesn??t magnify enough to be totally clear. But the clustering pretty much gives him away.

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Now since I??m only allowed 5 pictures per post here??s a couple of females. They??re pretty young?.but that??s what suits our purpose. An early female doesn??t photograph all that well from straight on so here are a few profiles.


The first one young enough that only a single pistil is present.
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Here??s another even younger?.it??s still so new and the pistil is so very fine that it doesn??t show up very well. But it is there even at such an early stage of development. This particular plant is only going to give us one calyx on this side. If you look through the crotch to the back side you can see the two pistils of a more developed calyx.
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That should be enough so that the untrained eye can pick up the difference. So let??s move on to factors for early determination. We??ll talk about the females here and do the males in a following post as we??ll need more pictures.

The first thing to notice for the females is the conical shape of the calyx. Wide at the base where it grows right off the main stem, straight to a pointy end where the pistil emerges. The overall shape is the giveaway.

Also to notice is that the calyx attaches tight to the stem (it doesn??t stand off).

This particular plant was topped at the seventh node. The calyx develops here first?.and matures here first. It doesn??t take a lot of time for the calyx to throw a pistil. So all in all the female is the quicker to identify in it??s early stages.

I'll move on to part 2
HMR
Horsemanrocks Reviewed by Horsemanrocks on . Males, Females, and early recognition This question?.is it a male?..is it a female?..comes up so often that I thought that I??d try to consolidate information in one spot. This isn??t so much new information as I??ve seen a lot of this posted elsewhere?.just an attempt to ??bring it all together?. The Genotype used here is a nostalgia strain called ??Gainesville Green?. It??s a hybrid and quite sativa dominate?..if in fact others experience different results with different strains then this is the place to Rating: 5