Late nanners/no balls will clones do the same?

I normally don't ask questions on here because I learned how to read at an early age and most every question a person could ever have about growing weed is somewhere in rollitups archives. But I have searched high and low for the answer to this question and have been unable to find an intelligent response.

If late nanners are supposedly due to stress would that mean the clones (taken before flowering of course) would turnout the same or would they be normal unless stressed?

everything I have read about true hermies versus late nanners says that late nanners are not genetic they happen from stress and true hermies will put out entire male branchs, balls and all much earlier.

And then what if there was no visible stress? would that then mean the late (2 weeks prior to harvest) nanners were actually genetic or is there some unseen stress that can cause this phenomenon? and would her clones have the same sexual identity crisis late in life?

Cannabis normally has imperfect flowers, with staminate "male" and pistillate "female" flowers occurring on separate plants.[10] It is not unusual, however, for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers.[11] Although monoecious plants are often referred to as "hermaphrodites," true hermaphrodites (which are less common) bear staminate and pistillate structures on individual flowers, whereas monoecious plants bear male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant. Male flowers are normally borne on loose panicles, and female flowers are borne on racemes.[12] "At a very early period the Chinese recognized the Cannabis plant as dioecious,"[13] and the (ca. 3rd century BCE) Erya dictionary defined xi 枲 "male cannabis" and fu 莩 (or ju 苴) "female cannabis".[14]

Well thats odd according to that the "late nanners" which actually grow out of tips of buds make a plant a TRUE hermie whereas the ones that grow seperate male and female sex organs on different parts of the plant are called monoecious, which the definaition sounds pretty hermie to me anyway.

But all this time everyone I have talked to and everything I have read has said the those late banana looking structures forming new green growth out the end of a nearly mature bud are due to stress where this description says the are the true hermies.

The more I research the more confusing this situation becomes. I would say kill all the clones from that plant anyway because they have the potential to hermie late, stressed or unstressed, just like their mother.

Just a followup note. After much trial I have come to the conclusion that the late hermies are genetic and have nothing to do with stress in the plant. I have taken a particular phenotype of feminized blue mystic and it hermies at the exact same time in every set of clones, even clones of clones. None of the plants, including the mother had any stress at all. None of the plants ever showed signs of being a monoecious plant, actual male stamens, but late in the fifth week of flowering small banana like structures start forming on the buds of the main cola. All of the plants are given the exact same nutrients and light schedule and only that particular phenotype turns hermied so I know that is is not some hidden stress causing it.

Up until this point, everything that I have ever known or read about growing marijuana has associated the late forming male flowers (bananas) with stress rather than genetics, but if that was the case then all the plants would hermie and not just that phenotype.

I know I am a little late on your thread, but I am just as confused as you were after reading all about nanners and hermies. So my question is, do the nanners that form with two weeks left to flower ever open and release pollen or are they nothing to worry about? Should I harvest early to protect the rest of the crop? Thanks for your help.

LBMD said:

I know I am a little late on your thread, but I am just as confused as you were after reading all about nanners and hermies. So my question is, do the nanners that form with two weeks left to flower ever open and release pollen or are they nothing to worry about? Should I harvest early to protect the rest of the crop? Thanks for your help.

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BUMP...this is happening to me ask we speak...just discovered lil green forming nanners..7.5 wks into flower with 1.5 to go..what should i do...