Understanding Hermaphoditism better.?.?.?

I had three plants (2 of which were a shiskaberry-buddha cross, and one Blueberry Skunk cross) and all 3 showed early signs of being female. shortly after I put them on a 12/12 light cycle. All three plants had been in veg for about six weeks or so but didn't show signs of vegetative pre-sex (as far as I could tell). They did not have alternating branches at the time I put them into flower. I took a bunch of clones from all of the plants just before putting the bigger plants into the flower room

Shortly after putting the plants into flower, due to unforseen circumstances the plants went through a bit of stress. The light cycle was manipulated and the room got quite cold on a couple of nights (not freezing, but there was a significant drop in temperature, cold enough to cause leaf damage). The clones I had taken didn't undergo the stress that the plants introduced to the flower room did.

A couple of weeks into flowering 2 of the plants showed hermaphrodism whereas one ( A shiskaberry/buddha) is a true-blue female. Thankfully I have clones of her and will continue to grow them while momma matures. The other Shishka clone, while it was in veg was IMHO more likely to be a girl because she/it was more squat, internodal spacing was quite close and it had a very distinctive lovely stink, even in veg.
The Blueberry plant also grew at a nice clip and seemed to be a healthy plant showing female traits early but after being knocked about in the early stages of flowering, turned into a hermaphrodite.

So my questions are ...

1. I've read that plants CAN diplay hermaphotitism as a result of stress due to their environmental conditions. If clones taken before the stress was introduced, and not subjected to the same stresses as the plants that went into flowing, is it possible that the clones would develop into true females, or would they likely turn to hermaphrodites anyhow? I'm flowering out my clones now but it is too early to tell which way they'll swing.

2. One of the plants, which I would have thought would have been female given that it was small, compact and stunk like a eucalyptus/pine face plant even when in the veg state, and displayed female sex (it had white hairs developing) before it got stressed and later developed balls, but continued to try and grow flowering tops was IMO worth keeping for it's genetic appeal. If it grows out to be a hermaphrodite again, is it worth keeping for breeding stock and what is the best use of the plant. Let it "male" flower", collect pollen and fertilize a TRUE female or are there other options.

3. Short of just killing them and adding green to the compost pile, is there any use at all for a hermaphrodite plant other than to tell them they can go fuck themselves, which ironically, I guess they can.

Thanks in advance. Two or more `heads`are better than one.

#1. The clones should be fine gals.
#2. It should reveg fine with no further stresses to a girl.
#3. If you can separate the hermie, smoke it and plant the all female seeds. Smokes just fine. Breeders stress females all the time to get "feminized" seeds.

Wow, thanks for the reply. I seperated the hermaphrodites and somewhat reluctantly killed them both, having raised them to adolescence and all.
They proved to be an interesting biology lesson and were dissected bud by bud to discover the insides of what was happening within the flowers.
The Real Girl` clones are still bulking up for their tlme in the grow room and their mom is doing fine. She seems to be in the process of joining all lower nodes into one contiuous series of buds, so that is a wonderful site to behold. I was surprised that my favourite `stinky`shiska-buddha plant was so indica in looks (squat and dark green and stinky even in veg. mode) and the true female was very much more sativa in appearnce It has yellowish leaves rather than a deep dark green.

Ah well, they`re fascinating plants. and I`ve enjoyed trying to figure them out. I guess we`ll see what happens once the clones are put into flower and determine if they`re hermaphroditic by nature or whather they are true `drippy girls
BTW if I ever have a rock and roll band, I`d call it ``hermaphrodic by nature

or the `Drippy Girls``

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