How many of you have had one plant turn badly hermie in a room of 10 and it be down to enviroment? In the same setup where you had no such issues previously?
ive been "hiding" knowhere. I signed up in feb to look for info on the strains i had started. I mentioned i have hundreds of mr nice seeeds. I also have hundreds of seeds from other breeders. I took me a few years to get round to these. Ive no interest in replacement beans because they would be at the back of the list anyway.
because I often grow organic, and I do grow lots of poly hybrids I do experience that quite often from big(2-3 packs at a time, big from a home scale) seed runs from lots of breeders. I will often have 1 or 2 plants get really angry at being grown in freshly mixed or freshly amended soil. and pop out some hermie flowers, clones of those plants often do not express hermaphroditism in the second use soil and once in awhile I find a straight up hermaphrodite in normal conditions. once in awhile, I do plant an actual real 2 gender cannabis plant and its fucking weird. strangest plants I have seen. since I started in 2009 I have grown 3.
I just want to know your SOP so I can tell my friend who has 9 shark shock girls he sexed a few weeks ago, can not do any of the things you do as normal, that pissed this variety off.
I am of the opinion that less than 1% of cannabis plants ever to germinate are truly single gendered because of the I'm gonna say about a hundred seed variety and 15 clone varietals I have had, I have been able to force all but one plant of all them to hermie through either stress experiments or mistakes.
I had a space queen clone for a few years. wouldn't hermaphrodite out unless my flower room got to 95 degrees F, this was before I had an Ac unit. otherwise, you could light leak it, over fertilize, starve it, girdle it, drown it, make it wilty as fuck and almost kill it from dehydration in flower, and wouldn't toss a banana out.
for example. cali connections tahoe og. I grew 60 feminized seeds. no hermies. until I purposefully stressed a round of clones w/ light stress to see what would happen. 3 days later they were popping bananas. The MAC 1 caps cut, took 3 weeks of continual nightly light leaks to put out some hermie flowers.
I can't do or say anything to make you feel better. I am new to this genepool too. I want your knowledge and experience to add to my research notes. and warn my friend who is excited. I appreciate you sharing this information. Thank you for doing so.
all I know is that we as growers can plant the occasional hermaphrodite because cannabis will do what it wants to propagate. I know someone who keeps pollen in the freezer to paint up a lower branch w/ some pollen and he swears it stops the hermaphroditism problems on a variety he has had for 15 years. Cannabis needs to be legal so more university level research on this subject and many others can be done.\
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