HAHA, I put out 5 plants in ealry May and 2 of them were males and grew pollen sacks all over...... I guess males will show there sex before females, that's what I read. At least i didn't have to waste my time on them. The one male was already 3ft when it went out. It would of been a 10ft female, to bad! the rest of my crop was fine and is doing amazing today.