Hermaphrodite???

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craighogrow

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It's hard to tell from this photo, but those appear to be male flower "balls" I can't tell if there are also female pistols/stamens. If you have both, it is a hermie. Now here is my long but hopefully helpful take on hermaphrodites: They're not the end of the world, and could be beneficial, especially if you do any extraction, however, Like Archie Bunker used to say about "morphadites"..."Too much of one thing and not enough of either." Your buds won't be tight and seedless, but can still be useful. Last year, I was still recovering after two years since nearly losing my left lower limb due to osteomyelitis, and I didn't intentionally grow during that time, but I had feral plants all over the yard from dumping bubble hash stock containing seeds. 1 out of 4 plants were hermaphrodite, but all the rest were female. I killed all but one hermie that grew in a far corner of the yard. I suspect the plant was also a polyploid mutant because it grew faster and larger than any of the others. It was insanely big and produced pounds of flowers like yours. Big (albeit loosely structured) flowers with tons of trichomes. In fact, pound for pound, it produced more quality, full melt bubble hash than any other plant in my 25 years of growing. Again, it produced feminized and possibly "hermaphrodized" seeds. Now, Since LED lights have finally become adaptable for growing indoors, I started a tent crop from my best strains, allowing me to avoid bugs, save on nutrients and pollination from neighbors (everyone grows here, including plenty who have no clue what they are doing) without a huge electric bill and temperature issues that I experienced with HID and HPS lights. So, I am going to let the hermies rule outdoors, cross pollinating with several strains from my seed bank. I also wish to experiment with creating polyploid plants using a mutagen, like the Columbians did in the 1970s-1980s with "gold" strains. I am a scientist at heart, so this should be fun!
 
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