Quote Originally Posted by SaH
I just noticed one of my autoflower males just started showing female hairs. I am on 22/2 and about 80 degrees so it is not a light or temp stressed hermie and I use FoxFarm Ocean soil and do not use any nutes untill they start to flower so I also know its not stressed that way either.

S_a_H
Why are you hanging on to autoflower males?

It's not unusual for a male which is kept alive & flowering long enough to toss a few pistils. See above.

Autoflowering drug cultivars are produced by hybridizing a standard drug cultivar with a ruderalis ( a Northern European/Russian sub-species). The expression of reproductive behavior regardless of photoperiod is an entirely differant strategy, suited to extremely harsh climates with an extremely short growing season- whole differant mechanism.

I'm thinking that you still have males because your going to run off seed? Don't hold me to this, but I think that next gens may have some weird variations in flowering behavior- Seems like the line may wanna split back into an autoflower/low potency pheno and a photoperiod-determinate / more potent pheno. I dunno, though... maybe the old man in me is just resistant to progress.
rhizome Reviewed by rhizome on . Male dominant hermaphrodites Just contemplating, Has anyone ever seen one of these? If so has anyone ever used one in a breeding experiment? I'm thinking it would be a great resin enhancer if you could later breed out the hermie trait. I've never seen a male go hermie but it should be possible by my logic. Rating: 5