um, do you often let the little things bother you?
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Hey meta, thats a nice pic, damn, i been smoking males this whole time....
Not my pic.
And cues, I agree with the guy you flamed. In my opinion, those are the start of new branches, I don't see any pistils. There are not 4 branches coming off that node, those "armpits" are formed by the stems on
leaves, it's just starting to grow alternating nodes, since you can see the leaf stem placement beginning to become staggered. Mind you, it's those smaller branches that make up the main formation of buds, since the internodal growth on them is usually super tight. So I guess you're sort of right, but not by anything you can see in the picture.
IMO, Buds are conformed of mainly calyxs, which all contain a pistil each, which I see lacking in the original picture.