Infant female vs Unwanted light ?%?

You are confusing hermaphrodism (degraded genetics) with stressing a lady of sound genetics, to collect the resultant pollen. Technically...every single cannabis plant is a 'recessive' hermaphrodite.

Let me repeat...Every strain of cannabis I've ever grown has the ability to to hermie, and I have never found one I can't hermie. (autoflower strains excluded, as I don't work with those every day) It's a self-preservation skill cannabis learned nearly 10,000 years ago without human intervention.
Likely cannabis had this ability before being spread around the globe, because it's inherant with cannabis seeds now native to all continents but Antarctica.
97.3% (a made-up number to make the response look good) of so-called 'hermaphrodite' nanners are gardener-induced, through stresses of their own making. Most of the time it has nothing to do with a strains' genetics being degraded.

Granted, with all these 'backyard breeders' using metals, chemicals, hormones and steroids to fem their seeds...the chances of creating a genetic hermie increases. This is one of the reasons that I will never purchase femmed seeds. (Well, that and the fact that I fem my own without genetic malformaton)

so if the plant becomes hermie without extra stress, its not really a hermie? or?

because the FAQs says the resulting seeds will carry on the same genetics.

what is the FAQs referring to?

""""What is an hermaphrodite?
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An hermaphrodite, or hermie, is a plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female 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.

Hermaphrodites are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemelia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds are worthless, because hermaphrodite parents tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring.

Please note that occassionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.""""

my question is...

if u stress out a female until she creates pollen sacks, its not a hermaphrodite???????????

or is the FAQs wrong?

If you have to force a female to give pollen, it isn't a natural hermaphrodite.

Every cannabis seed and clone you will ever come across will have this ability to one extreme to the other. It is a thought to be a self-preservation technique for the species, not a genetic malfunction. Stress induces the trait, but some strains have a lower tolerance to stress, and hermie easier. Some can be rightly abused and still remain celibate. Likely bad breeding practices damaged some strains making them more hermie-prone.

By the way...this ability for the female to make pollen, is the only reason there are such things as "femmed" seeds.

How is that ability the only reason there are femmed seeds?

Male chromosomes - XX
Female chromosomes - XY

The female plant has no male chromosomes, so when she offers pollen, the pollen has the XY (female) chromosomes. In other words, there are no male chromosomes present to make male seeds...so you end up with 100% female seeds. (if done properly)

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Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome

Male chromosomes - XX
Female chromosomes - XY

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Isn't that the other way around?

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Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome

Male chromosomes - XX
Female chromosomes - XY

The female plant has no male chromosomes, so when she offers pollen, the pollen has the XY (female) chromosomes. In other words, there are no male chromosomes present to make male seeds...so you end up with 100% female seeds. (if done properly)

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So, how i saw this work was correct as Rusty states it. I knew i had to be correct on this:thumbsup:

Thanks for confirming this Rusty. Its just how i thought it was :cool::rasta:

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Originally Posted by bigtopsfinn

Isn't that the other way around?

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yes it's backwards, male is XY and female is XX.

i found this a in pretty good book, hope it helps out.


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Oops. :jointsmile: <sigh> Gotta quit being in a hurry.

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Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome

Oops. :jointsmile: <sigh> Gotta quit being in a hurry.

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happens to me all of the time.

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