HELP!!! Is my Jack Flash a male!? (pics included)

cheers lads ive literally just hacked it up :(  im abit depressed now tbh

It is highly unusual for a feminised JF#5 seed to turn out male. As far as I can recall, this is the first one I've heard of since the launch.

One forum member made a mother plant from JF#5, cloned it for a few grows and, near harvest time (on about the third set of clones), noticed a few male flowers on an otherwise female plant. That's the only report of intersexuality for JF#5 I know of, and the problem above is not of intersexuality - that looks like a full-blown male.

I'm at a bit of a loss to say why this one plant turned out this way. It shouldn't be the conditions and, in any case, even really bad conditions would be likely to cause a female to turn hermaphrodite, not fully male.

A rogue seed from a non-fem strain is theoretically possible, but extremely unlikely, as no seeds, regular or fem, are packed in a manner that allows mix-ups (this is just as important for making sure all the regular strains never get mixed up).

Another option is that this is simply a freak - the one in a thousand (or ten thousand) that turns out male, despite the best efforts of humans to make every seed female. Everything cannabis does is to improve its chances of sexual reproduction, so turning out the occasional male fits with its biological determination.

Even so, I'm very surprised to see this first male from a pack of JF#5.

Please let us know how the other plants develop.

If you have a place you can quarantine the male for a few more weeks in a 12/12 photoperiod - so that it can flower a bit longer but can't fertilise the females - it might be a good idea to save some of the pollen from this plant. Applied carefully to the lower buds on the best females, it may produce something very interesting in the f2 generation.