Depending on where you live you may be able to plant earlier, like around march-april. "Cull"ing out males means killing them. Males will make females produce almost 90% less smokeable bud. You wanna plant where it can get alot of sun so semi-dense woods may not be the best place. Look for a field with waist-high weeds. Plant with in the weeds. Make a 3 foot deep hole and fill it with mostly good soil. Alittle of the native soil and light organic fertilizer.
When the plant gets to be waist high, You will be able to lay it down and make it grow across the ground. When it flowers you can have waist high buds .