Male or Female? - hard to tell. Pics inside

Dr.Nick

Dr.Nick

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Weird looking hermie. Maybe you could create a new strain and name it "Dr. Frank N. Furter," or something.
 
playallnite

playallnite

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those photos are from 2 different plants, are you saying male hermaphrodite and should be destroyed ASAP? I'm a newbie to this site but TIA
 
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Golda

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I don't understand how someone took over my thread, but anyhow, here's my question again.

I'd appreciate any help at this stage...

10x

Golda said:
Hey again,

It's 5.5 weeks flowering.

I decided to keep going on with all of them, and left for a 3 week vacation. After a 3 weeks vacation with my roommate in charge, I came back to see a disaster. Out of 5 plants, 2 were almost completely male, with tons of pollen filling the grow area. The single one that was a female and the two hermies were pollinated and grew many seeds. And to top things, he didn't notice the timer went broke and they got full 3 days of light!

However, there are some buds among the 3 (I killed the other two) and I'm keeping them.

Few questions:
1. I read that if a female grows pollen sacks and those pollens pollinate a female - it should produce feminized seeds. Correct?
2. How do I know if my herms are male-herms (i.e. males growing female organs) or female-herms (i.e. females growing male organs)? This is important to create the feminized seeds, right?

BTW - I'm in a hot country, and the temperatures were high since day 1 of seeding, around 25c-40c. Could this be the reason for me getting 9 males/hermies out of 10 seeds?

Will post pics soon.

Thank you!
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gobbly

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I answered you already, but here goes again...

Golda said:
1. I read that if a female grows pollen sacks and those pollens pollinate a female - it should produce feminized seeds. Correct?
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If a plant with female chromosomes pollinates a plant with female chromosomes, the resulting plant will have female chromosomes. However, as you can see, the actual sex of the plant is only the strongest influence on the plants sexual development, not the only influence.

Golda said:
2. How do I know if my herms are male-herms (i.e. males growing female organs) or female-herms (i.e. females growing male organs)? This is important to create the feminized seeds, right?
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You pretty much don't (though I'm sure there is some specialized and expensive test to find out, I doubt you are in a position to care that much...). You can get an indication just by whether it's male or female dominant, but that's just an indication, I've never heard of some sign (though I've also never heard of male to female hermies, not to say they don't happen). As I said, your questions are probably non issues because you don't want to use hermies to make seeds. You use one of several chemicals that cause male flower development without degrading the chromosomes and casing major genetic issues (basically hermies are typically very poor breeding stock). If you think feminized seeds are just hermied females you need to do a little more research :)

Golda said:
BTW - I'm in a hot country, and the temperatures were high since day 1 of seeding, around 25c-40c. Could this be the reason for me getting 9 males/hermies out of 10 seeds?
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Possibly, I have certainly heard this is a factor, but I have yet to see much scientific data on hermies at all... Just looking at nature and educated guesses as to why hermies develop, I would think light would be more of a factor, but heat certainly can be a seasonal indicator to plants. It's always seemed to me like hermies are the plants response to thinking the growing season is too short to develop female flowers, so it pushed for the faster male in hopes to get some pollination in before it has to die. Again, I have no concrete scientific backing for my theory, but it certainly is a prevalent theory in the hobby.
 
terrance.jbatey

terrance.jbatey

Active Member
if its hermie use dutch master reverse and penertrator or sturator.......with potash plus..if they are hermie.........theres a 50\50 chance of turning them back female........potash plus adds another 20% to da chances.........but u will b able to tell if u see the hermie change back ....it has tell tale sighns when changing back.......another way to aproach(still use the reverse and potash+)is to comb the buds so u in effect take the seed bublbs out and they are gone.......now if the reverse worked u will now have females....but give the reverse a fair go....but deff segregate and quarantine ur crops......from da hermies
 
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