Male hermaphrodites-can it be done?

[klondike_bar]

ive got 2 ales, and im done catching thier pollen for one of the girls.

can i make em hermi and get buds on em? (it works for females...)

either way, ive started to flip the lights from on to off (and vicey-versa) every 3-4 hours and taking small chunks of stem out and bending/snapping small leaves and branches.

my pln is to make thier life a freaking chaos to see if theyll herm.

is it even possible though? it must have been tried before...

[Weedhound]

I've heard that it can happen...but I've never seen it.

[stinkyattic]

You can force-herm a male just the same way you can a female, but you will never put on bud mass. I've seen it happen in my garden with old males. You just get a few pistils.

[klondike_bar]

coolio! its day two of torture, and over less than 24 hours, the lights must have gone through 5 on/off cycles.

my goal is to see if female parts will grow on, and then try growing it to harvest :p

[Weedhound]

You can force-herm a male just the same way you can a female, but you will never put on bud mass. I've seen it happen in my garden with old males. You just get a few pistils.

God I love Stinky. :thumbsup:

[Hennessy1414]

God I love Stinky. :thumbsup:

uh ok :wtf:

[Big len]

I have one that turned out that way like stinky said not much bud mass but the smoke is fantastic.

[qdavid]

This may be a good thing as afar as getting some smoke out of an otherwise useless effort. But getting back to the original post about collecting pollen, wouldn't a hermied male still have that male (Y?) chromosome in it's genes and therefore be more prone to producing males seeding using that polllen?

[the image reaper]

my reasoning is this: if a plant's genetics are so weak as to easily allow sex-reversals, I dont want it in my garden ... I try to weed out the weaklings ... in genetics, you need to strive for 'only the strong survive' ... but, thats only my uneducated opinion :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

This is true Reaper....but despite you saying you are just a pollen thrower you aren't...you are a breeder and so those things are important to you......as well as they should be for a good breeder.

I wouldln't do it for another reason however. I prefer to put my time, energy and $$$ into plants that will give back.....not take up space. I don't consider a few grams a good investment in those three things of mine.

[the image reaper]

oh, now, that's just embarrassing :S2: ... you set your bar way too low, but THANK YOU anyway, dear :jointsmile:

[klondike_bar]

well, my "grafting attemp" sucked, (the pots keep them spaced almost a foot apart) so i pretty much killed the top 3 inches on each plant by trying.

however, i consider this good, as its a sure-fire way to stress them :p

no pistils yet, any idea how long itll take till it shows any hermi parts (assuming it worked)