Identifying male plants

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It's been a
while since we've had any male plants in the Museum garden, as we've
been testing feminised seeds for many months, and flower clones most
other times. 

Right now, we're working with some Jack Herer seed plants, cloning for sex and selection.

As we're often asked how to spot male plants it
seemed like a good opportunity to take some snaps of staminate flowers
in their early stages. 

The pics below are from plants that have been in the 12/12 flowering cycle for 10-20 days.

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Ganja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Sensi Administrator Joined: 13 June 2003 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4123	Quote Reply Topic: Identifying male plants Posted: 04 May 2007 at 12:43
	It's been a while since we've had any male plants in the Museum garden, as we've been testing feminised seeds for many months, and flower clones most other times. Right now, we're working with some Jack Herer seed plants, cloning for sex and selection. As we're often asked how to spot male plants it seemed like a good opportunity to take some snaps of staminate flowers in their early stages. The pics below are from plants that have been in the 12/12 flowering cycle for 10-20 days.
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Ganja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Sensi Administrator Joined: 13 June 2003 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4123	Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 2007 at 12:44
	Here's a feature than can be confusing when identifying plant gender for the first few times: At the top of this image, the male flowers are clearly visible. On the bract at the bottom of the image, there are some male preflowers just visible, and also what could be mistaken for white/orange pistils. In fact the slightly twisted 'hairs' on the lower bract are the spurs that grow at the bracts of male and female plants in vegetation. They've just dried out on the lower, older bract. On the upper bracts, you can see the same structures but new and green. Identifying dried spurs as pistils may lead to disappointment... CU of dried spurs: CU of healthy spurs:
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Ganja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Sensi Administrator Joined: 13 June 2003 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4123	Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 2007 at 12:45
	Some more early male flowers:
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holistic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Sensi Advanced Grower Joined: 08 July 2006 Location: groomlake Online Status: Offline Posts: 2045	Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 2007 at 19:48
	fantastic pics ganja thank you im getting a digi cam for my birthday.
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Q´sGhost Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Sensi Advanced Grower Joined: 16 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 555	Quote Reply Posted: 05 May 2007 at 12:28
	yes finally no more searching for beginners. ganja made it. good news holistic. waiting for th high res pics of your new garden !!
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Medical_MJ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Sensi Seedling Joined: 16 February 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 20	Quote Reply Posted: 06 February 2009 at 00:21
	Had some male photos, which I thought might compliment Ganga's thread
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