Female clone might be a dude

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the1shaggy

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I have a a clone from a female plant
Well I topped it and it's putting out 3 pronged leaves
Could this plant turn into a male?
 
akhiymjames

akhiymjames

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No unless the plant is a herm it will still be a female. Sounds like it’s starting to grow new fresh leaves. Whatever the cultivar is it should get more leaves when it gets further along in veg.
 
thenotsoesoteric

thenotsoesoteric

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the1shaggy said:
I have a a clone from a female plant
Well I topped it and it's putting out 3 pronged leaves
Could this plant turn into a male?
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Number of leaf blades has nothing to do with the sex of a plant.

There is no possible way to know if a plant is male or female by just looking at it unless that plant is showing sexual reproductive parts, ie balls or flowers/pistils.
 
TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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the1shaggy said:
I heard if it gets to stressed it will turn into a male?
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No, this is wrong. A female can be stressed enough to become a hermaphrodite and grow pollen sacs, but it is still not a male. It isn't a hermaphrodite, though, unless you see pollen sacs. Why would you think that 3 bladed leaves would have anything to do with sex? Females will grow single bladed leaves during reveg...leaf structure has nothing to do with sex.
 
mysunnyboy

mysunnyboy

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TreeFarmerCharlie said:
No, this is wrong. A female can be stressed enough to become a hermaphrodite and grow pollen sacs, but it is still not a male. It isn't a hermaphrodite, though, unless you see pollen sacs. Why would you think that 3 bladed leaves would have anything to do with sex? Females will grow single bladed leaves during reveg...leaf structure has nothing to do with sex.
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@curious2garden remember that discussion where you said maybe I was just high on good weed as most of us are when I said if it through seeds it wasn’t a herm but a chick with balls lol
This is what I meant :eyesmoke:

in OT brb
 
TreeFarmerCharlie

TreeFarmerCharlie

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mysunnyboy said:
@curious2garden remember that discussion where you said maybe I was just high on good weed as most of us are when I said if it through seeds it wasn’t a herm but a chick with balls lol
This is what I meant :eyesmoke:

in OT brb
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If you want to get really technical about what is considered a true hermaphrodite then read the following excerpt from Ed Rosenthal's book.

Ed Rosenthal said:
Although monoecious plants are often referred to as "hermaphrodites", true hermaphrodites – which are less common in Cannabis – bear staminate and pistillate structures together on individual flowers, whereas monoecious plants bear male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant.
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