Can someone tell me if this is a hermaphrodite?

[mercury13]

Hi everyone. I've been doing an outdoor grow this year and I have one plant that I am not sure on. I'm thinking it's a hermaphrodite? It doesn't have full male characteristics and it's showing some female parts as well. The top has started to flower very slowly and has female hairs but the stalk shows signs of possible balls? So this is why I am confused on the sex.

Anyone able to help?

Thanks :-)

[bluesteve]

Have no fears, my friend, it is a female, though if she gets stressed, like all cannabis females, she could throw some male flowers. If she does, don't worry, as there will be, usually, very few male flowers, and very few seeds will be made, plus, those seeds will produce similar females to this one, but unless you stress her, you shouldn't see any male flowers, or have any seed at all.

[free2seed]

looks like a chick to me ;] just a stubborn slow growin one

[mercury13]

Yeah...It was definitely a really slow girl. Starting to fully flower now and my hermaphrodite worries are gone :-)

Thanks!

[headshake]

but unless you stress her, you shouldn't see any male flowers, or have any seed at all.

ALL CANNABIS has a built in "mechanism" to go hermaphrodite if need be, to carry on the lineage of the plant. it just so happens that stresses tend to showcase these less than desirable traits. you can't make a plant do something that it doesn't have encoded into it's DNA. (okay, well you can, but this takes a long time and is a subject for a different story.)


mercury, looks like a straight up female to me. congrats.



-shake

[bobjob4u]

ya , congrat on your girl.