Infant female vs Unwanted light ?%?

thanks guys!!

i was thinkin about stressing the smallest plant i have, she dont really wanna grow. i wanted advice b4 doin this, i didnt wanna end up with a hermie offspring. thinkin i'll just wait til next year to try n breed n get feminized seeds.. thanks again.:D

I belong to those who believe that hermies are caused strictly by genes and stress has absolutely nothing to do with it. Last spring I discovered flowers on a very young plant and I wanted it to get a little bigger before it budded and I also wanted clones so I put the plant back under 24 hour light and it started to grow new leaves again and stop flowering. I took 4 little clones which eventually grew into gorgeous bushes covered in flowers come late summer, and the "mother" that I started with gave me many fragrant buds without any sign of hermies. It should be mentioned too that all the plants were transplanted and moved several times, one of them across the country without any sign of male flowers.

The only time I got hermies was when I was too cheap to buy seeds and used bag seed. Bag seed comes from hermies.

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Originally Posted by polycultiv

I belong to those who believe that hermies are caused strictly by genes and stress has absolutely nothing to do with it. Last spring I discovered flowers on a very young plant and I wanted it to get a little bigger before it budded and I also wanted clones so I put the plant back under 24 hour light and it started to grow new leaves again and stop flowering. I took 4 little clones which eventually grew into gorgeous bushes covered in flowers come late summer, and the "mother" that I started with gave me many fragrant buds without any sign of hermies. It should be mentioned too that all the plants were transplanted and moved several times, one of them across the country without any sign of male flowers.

The only time I got hermies was when I was too cheap to buy seeds and used bag seed. Bag seed comes from hermies.

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wow, in only 15 posts and (what sounds like) minimal experience you've already alleviated one cannabis "myth". good job man!

that's the point of good genetics. but don't sit here and say all bagseed is from a hermie. that's like trying to guess what strain it is. OG kush was a bagseed at one point and time.


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I'm assuming that if you have a bag of nice buds with seeds in them, then it's likely that the grower didn't notice a male flower somewhere on what would otherwise appear to be a female plant, (because it's actually a hermie). What reasonable person would raise cannabis for sale and then leave obvious males growing among the females?
So no, I don't know why the buds had seeds, but I do know the plants those seeds grew into looked like ladies until it was too late.

You can buy quality seeds relatively cheap. Why risk the grave disappointment?

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Originally Posted by polycultiv

I'm assuming that if you have a bag of nice buds with seeds in them, then it's likely that the grower didn't notice a male flower somewhere on what would otherwise appear to be a female plant, (because it's actually a hermie). What reasonable person would raise cannabis for sale and then leave obvious males growing among the females?
So no, I don't know why the buds had seeds, but I do know the plants those seeds grew into looked like ladies until it was too late.

You can buy quality seeds relatively cheap. Why risk the grave disappointment?

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if we are going to base it on the assumption that that it is being grown for sale then wouldn't that grower use clones? and the reason for cloning is to maintain a genetic line for certain desired traits (reducing many unkown variables starting from beans) not to mention shorten time to harvest.

so with that being said, there would be no males. only ladies. so one of those ladies would have had to hermied, hence the bag seed. this would have been a known strain bred for aforementioned desirable traits (amongst other reasons). how do you suppose that those ladies hermied? how could it have happened? could it possibly be due to stress?

if i'm not mistaken don't breeders use pollen from stressed females to cross with other females to produce femmed seeds?


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Originally Posted by Smorgus

Is there any actual proof that exposing light to the plant when it shouldn't do actually causes hermies? I thought this was highly debatable just like the whole stress thing can cause. I personally will stick with the notion that hermies and potential hermies are determined by genetic factors like every other living thing on this planet rather thn environmental factors.

Countless episodes of people doing things they shouldn't during flower period and still end up with the females after they have shown sex.

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Well but i grew 2 plants on my deck and iv had really never grew before. Both turned hermy because a deck light was turned on 3-4 times a week.

The one in the ground that grew away from the light budded up great and no sign of hermy. I would bet my grow that if a plant was exposed to the light my plant endored would hermy up everytime.:rasta:

I suppose the hermies were caused by hermie genes and nothing else.