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Please help identify this pre-flower

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THCosmic

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About 4 days ago I started to monitor a pre-flower on a plant already identified as female. The node in question has twin pistils on the nodes above and below it.

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It’s still a bit early to tell, nothing absolute yet, but if I had to hazard a guess, I’d lean male. You should know for sure within a week.
 
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Phyto said:
It’s still a bit early to tell, nothing absolute yet, but if I had to hazard a guess, I’d lean male. You should know for sure within a week.
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I was thinking the same thing.

The rest of the plant has all female nodes so far. This is the only node I noticed that started to look like it was male. If it is a male pre-flower, and I don't see any other similar nodes (or only a few), I will just pluck it and hope for the best.
 
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Is it also possible this is a mutation and it started to grow a 2nd branch at that fan leaf? This specific plant actually did that in another location on its own.

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This plant basically topped itself from start and the first node on the left main stem grew 2 branches on one fan leaf and 1 branch on the other fan leaf. 2 of the 3 were pruned already.
 
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Phyto said:
It’s still a bit early to tell, nothing absolute yet, but if I had to hazard a guess, I’d lean male. You should know for sure within a week.
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update soon but i reckon this is male 2
 
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5th day of monitoring the pre-flower.

 
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Day 6:

 
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Day 7:


Has been slowly opening.


This is the top of the branch that pre-flower is forming on. Nodes above and below also have pistils.
 
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Day 11 of monitoring the development of this pre-flower. Pistils have emerged. What originally looked female, then definitely started to look male, now returns back to looking female.

 
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I was fixing to say that looks more like a tiny node growing rather than a nanner or sack
 
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Quick update on this pre-flower. This is what it looks like now:

 
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That's a male flower that just spot pollen everywhere
 
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That's a male flower that just spot pollen everywhere
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You sure? Looks like new growth to me. I see the fan leaves.
 
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You sure? Looks like new growth to me. I see the fan leaves.
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To me it looks like a male flower may wanna get some more input tho
 
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Image at much higher magnification:


I'm just seeing pistils and trichomes.
 
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Now it looks like a female preflower
 
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Let it rideee
 
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Now it looks like a female preflower
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It has been a very confusing one from the start, haha. I think it ended up being a mutation of a 2nd branch growing out from the same node. It just grew so slow and happened during the time of sex identification.
 
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Here you can better see the branch directly above it. The fan leaf at this node was cut a while ago.

 
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That's just some kinda weird ass preflower growth
 
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