jdhutson2006
Active Member
A week or so ago i posted on someone's thread here (i believe op was JSJ) and i feel i might have given him inaccurate information. Op was concerned about his plant turning hermie - due to a "nanner" turning up in his flowers. I told him it was hermie and i was most likely wrong. there's a lot of different oppinions as to what a "hermie" is, however, i felt this read best describes what i feel a lot of "newbies" experience and i am also posting a journal with more in depth information about this whole "hermie" thing. i've included pics in the journal that are quite good. so...here's the read, and whoever you were mate, i apologize. i will check myself better next time i offer advice
"Hermaphrodite marijuana plant, or hermie, is a marijuana plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female marijuana plant will develop staminate flowers, though the reverse is also true. Primarily male hermaphrodites are not as well recognized only because few growers let their males reach a point of flowering where the pistillate would be expressed. Hermaphrodite cannabis plants are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemilia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring. [note: that occasionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female marijuana plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.]” (Amsterdam MJ seed bank)
"Hermaphrodite marijuana plant, or hermie, is a marijuana plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female marijuana plant will develop staminate flowers, though the reverse is also true. Primarily male hermaphrodites are not as well recognized only because few growers let their males reach a point of flowering where the pistillate would be expressed. Hermaphrodite cannabis plants are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemilia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring. [note: that occasionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female marijuana plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.]” (Amsterdam MJ seed bank)