Veggieblood
Active Member
Everything you ever read, and everything that natural selection would tell you would be to kill a marijuana plant that shows hermie traits, big flowers with little balls. Kill everything? Everyone, 99% of the things you read will tell you kill it, and maybe you should? Or maybe you have one of the strongest strains alive? A female plant turns male, hermaphrodites, when its trying to survive. It hasn’t pollenated with another male and if it’s going to die will turn into a hermaphrodite, seed itself and produce offspring. Not naturally in the one you want, but if you stress it, this will happen. I’ve grown over 100 strains in 20 years, the best one of them all turned hermie early the first harvest. I kept clones because the taste, smell, high potency was ridiculous. I kept the strain alive and realized it was just nutrient problems, once fixed has never hermied again.
My question is the seeds that were produced from the first harvest of a self seeded, hermaphrodite plant are 99% female, 50% an exact copy of the original, back cross. The other 49% of the seeds are about 3 different delicious, higher yielding, strains. Everyone always hates hermies, maybe we just don’t understand the process? What did I do?
My question is the seeds that were produced from the first harvest of a self seeded, hermaphrodite plant are 99% female, 50% an exact copy of the original, back cross. The other 49% of the seeds are about 3 different delicious, higher yielding, strains. Everyone always hates hermies, maybe we just don’t understand the process? What did I do?
