Hermie?

FatBoyVik

Active Member
Urm about that.. It's next to another plant and a beautiful one at that! It's the start of if the 7th week. Should I just harvest? Could I cut that bit out and it be fine?
 

driver77

Well-Known Member
You can wet your fingers and pluck it out...the idea is not to spread pollen. It doesn't look like it's opened yet but odds are there are probably more.....
Up to you on harvest...it's hard to tell from just the one pic...but sure looks immature still. It takes weeks for a pollenated female to have viable seeds so even at 7 weeks into flower you probably won't get seeds.....
 

FatBoyVik

Active Member
OK so what would be the game plan? Just pick things that look like that off? Or does it not effect the bud as they are not developed and I'm chopping this weeks anyways?

Any opinions appreciated!
 

BongerChonger

Well-Known Member
A monoecious plant isn't really female at all. Shouldn't be considered female. "Female" plants cannot reproduce on their own and are categorized as dioecious. (same as males)

And far as intersex goes, all hermaphrodites are monoecious, but not all monoecious plants are hermaphrodites if that makes sense.
It's the inflorescence that categorizes them too, pollen doesn't necessarily have to be viable.

Cannabis naturally has both monoecious and dioecious phenotypes.
Rodelization is a made up canna talk term. A female plant can't rodelize or reproduce on it's own.
Yes, there absolutely are female plants that never throw balls or nanners, no matter the stress or environment, or how many times you grow it.

If you want a rabbit hole, we can't apparently yet tell a monoecious cannabis plant's chromosomes from a females, they're both XX constitution.
So you can seperate the boys from the girls so to speak via tissue sample, but you have to weed the intersex out through thorough testing.
One might say "ahah! XX constitution = female" when it's not the case, as both male and female flowers are present.

How much thorough testing goes on in the canna seed industry?
If your "feminized" plant from feminized seed herms, is that because one of the female parent plants was monoecious or intersex? (aka might throw a nanner or two late stage, or whatever, whenever)
I think that's a fair question to ask.

I'm not saying trash the plant if you get a herm, some aren't as bad as others.
Just saying, don't believe the bs about a plant throwing nanners or whatever, being your own fault, because of grow environment etc.
Or that a "rodelized" plant will produce feminized seeds, that's a very slippery slope. Feminized seed shouldn't be made that way, and the parent plants should be stable, aka dioecious, through thorough testing.
A tissue sample doesn't cut it.
 
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