So in a prior post I'd said I had all males from the half pack of Bandit Breath. I kept one due its structure and strong smell. Well, I just finished doing some maintenance and I'll be damned! Its a female shooting out nice bright white pistols.
I guess the pre calyxes were a bit deceiving to my swollen and weary eyes. I was certain I was seeing male parts but I should've been more patient rather than give it my best guess while they're in veg...especially knowing how slow the OGKB can be.
I'm expecting good things from this one
That is great news man, at least you got you a girl...
This post reminds me so much of a past experience of mine. I had a local worked blueberry/Afghani cut back a 6 or maybe 7 years ago. It was selected from some seeds me and a small circle of local farmers were breeding out.
Till this day I have never seen nothing like it. It showed strong signs of male characteristics all through veg to pre flowers. Grew tall and kinda spindly to be honest, until you got it settled into a good sized area for the roots to spread, then it would explode into a tall very wide bush like structure that in all honesty resembled a cactus. It is very hard to explain. The cut had very few leaves and looked male as fuck in all aspects of its character. But it yielded huge huge huge buds covered in frost and smelled of straight blueberry, apricot lemony fuel. One of the best plants I had ever ran or seen outdoor till this day.
Any way long story short, before I get carried away with its odd structure and how great of a plant it was, the pre flowers did not show hairs right off the bat like most strains do. It grew large calyxes that closely resembled a male. Even grew the calyxes out in a cluster type form before hairs even protruded from the calyxes...
I had a buddy that purchased around what I remember to believe 22 clones for $20 a piece. Fully rooted and around a foot tall, of course. Well here is where it gets interesting. Later in the the year I asked him how they were doing, because suprisngly running them outdoor they really put on a show right before they kicked into pre flower is when they hauled ass and put out the most vigorous growth during veg. You know, that fine line between transition... They were very odd plants indeed.
Anyway, his reply was "ahh they all turned hermie on me and I was afraid they would pollinate the rest of my crop and ruin it with seed"... I believe he said where he checked his plants at night using an LED flashlight, he thought that maybe he had turned them hermie...
Well my other buddy had told me that the guy had told him, he could not believe I sold him a bunch of male clones and he was pretty upset about it.
Then it dawned on me about how the plants showed such illusions of being a male... It was the oddest plant I ever had, in all honesty it even made me wonder sometimes even knowing it was a female, if it was a male. A fucking crossdresser for sure, obviously... I had come to a conclusion that it had to have been due to the infamous blueberry known for its crazy mutation and deformity traits.
Here is the conclusion of the story... It was about 3 weeks after harvest, those long, acrid, rotten, fermented, sickinly sweet apricot blueberry buds with a citrus topping were making head lines in my county... Went to visit ole boy and pulled a bud of it out, rolled up a big fat hog leg and went to burnin'... He kicked back on his couch and sat in a daze and didn't say much.... He had a silent grin on his face that looked awkward as fuck, it was awkward as fuck, for a good 2 or 3 minutes. There was four of us sitting in the room at the time and suddenly he broke the silence and sat up from the couch quickly but was speaking rather slowly... He said " Boy I don't know what the hell that is, but I sure would like to have an ounce of that".... Before I could reply to his statement, he asked "Can you get any cuts of that?"... Bam... All four of us laughed uncontrollably for as long as I can remember... I think he was getting paranoid as he kept asking us what was wrong and looking out the living room window.... Lol you just had of been there and experienced it and just know the guy. He is a trip.
I explained the issue to him and what he had done and he still tells me till this day it was some of the best smoke he ever had in his life and that thanks to me I taught him how to be patient. And also that he hates himself, for killing them off.
The sad part is.... I lost the cut a month before harvest.
Long gone... Dust in the wind!