Can a Marijuanna Plant grow both female and male flowers??

[potthahead]

First time in my life I've seen that. I have a female plant, which has been in flowering period for about 1 and a half month. The buds are looking good, and almost ready to harvest(this will be done in about 2 weeks). But Yesterday, while i was looking carefully at the buds and i was happy, i mentioned some male flowers,(you know, flowers which look like empy seeds and then they pop up and they have nothing inside except that yellow male pollen)that have grown beside some buds, i would say on some buds. WHAT'S HAPPENING?? Is this possible?? A Plant to be hermaphrodite, both female and male??? And what happens in this case with the quality of the yield?? Please, if anyone knows something about that , or has seen such a thing before, please inform me....

[grieves]

Yes its called a hermaphrodite... It is a genetic mutation where the plant has both male and female reproductive organs...You should isolate the hermies from the rest of the crop, in the case that they are all hermies, just take added care in removing the flowers during trimming. The end product shouldn't be too effected...

[potthahead]

Thank you man!!Should i cut out the hermies right now or in 2 weeks, when the entire plant is to be cut??? I think that because of the hermies, the crop will defenatelly be seedy, is that right?

[Cerebro]

Sometimes genetic, sometimes environmental. Too much stress causes herm.
Male flowers on a herm will still pollinate your females, so chop it if you dont need it.....but make sure you are right about those male flowers first.

[Thepizzaguy]

The seeds I've collected from a few hermis, have all produced female plants. I would hang onto it unless it gets out of control. 3-4 male sacks isn't that bad of a thing. It may not even qualify as a hermi. If the male sacks keep coming in bunches then you need to do something about it for sure.

I've seen seeds from a "selfed" plant sell for $200.00. All the plant wants to do is reproduce and to do that it needs pollen, so it pops out 2-3 sacks to continue it's line. So if the plant stops producing male sacks, you may have quiet a find. I've read that it can be that the plant is trying to stabilize itself.

The smoke from the plants was very nice.

[Cerebro]

While most of what you are saying isnt incorrect^ I dont think it is very accurate either.
While it is possible that seeds from a fem fertilised by herm pollen will be femmed seeds it is also possible that the genetics are flawed so the batch could be full of hermies. As far as I know a plant that shows any male flowers would be considered a herm.
I've seen the effects of a few burst pollen sacks in my time, and found it devastating (not really, but it def sucked). I'm no fan of herms at all. I've got some seeds from the same scenario but I wont grow them out. I'd hate to put time and effort into growing more herms.

[NewbieFarmer]

Plants can go herm if the lighting periode lacks consistancy. Consistancy is key for healty bud. All changes with the lighting should be done gradually.

Good luck man

[tazz11]

environmental vs strain purity and quality cause changes in the conditioning of the strain base in question ...

many want to define the best conditions , sorry that would depend on the strain and how the base stock was made and under what coditions it was made in, the effects can be dirrected into the off spring ...thus the only true scale can be to match the breeders evironment.. or to meet the basic standers ....and requarments for the given strain base ...

i wont worry much the gene pool is about 65% of its normal level and if it goes beyond 50% the gen pool will fall apart like a vanishing dream...


nlike most genetics , the gene pool is dirrectly reflecting the indoor growers breeding habbits .and thus the destored 418 strain bases and los of 381 IBL's has forced the gene pool to about 65% of what it was ...

i am sorry to say this to you .. but i have watched the gene pool for over 35 years ..

IMHO the genetic quality and purity is in danger of failing completly .. once it reaches the 50% and alls off there well no longer be a genetic control to stablize new F1's, without the new F1's to stablize the gene pool the mass well become unstable and you wont be able to stop it once it happends ...


ya a few will have a few strains but with out the open trade of these strain the mass well destore it self over a few years , at most ...

[Cerebro]

moral, grow plants without skunk#1 in them.
gotta love tazz.

[tazz11]

that strain dose well in bonasi...lol