Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
It all depends on the plant's genetics and the ability of the gardener to keep the ladies stress-free. All cannabis plants I've ever worked with have the latent ability to develop hermie traits under stress.

I do know that if you are working with a genetically stout strain, and you've purposefully stressed her to make pollen for you, you can cut-back and re-veg her into a normal, healthy female without further hermie expression. Yes, I have done this often when producing femmed seeds, and there is a little something about it in my re-veg threads. (I think)

My guess is that you had a light leak, temperature fluction, ph problem...that caused the re-veg to hermie. Over-pruning and overspraying can also stress the re-veg. I've never had a forced hermie re-veg keep her hermaphrodite expression. But then again...I never tried to re-veg one back into hermaphrodism, either.

If you clone a hermie...you get a hermie.
Very good response, thank you.

You are probably right about the light leakage, I don't think I was very conscientious of light leakage 15 years ago. Probably not as much as I should have.

So that's interesting, if you get her growing in veg again and clone her minus the stress that hermi'ed the mom they could reverg to full female. That's what I wondered.

Rusty, do you find that pruning all at once or a little at a time is less stressful for the revegged moms?
jakester Reviewed by jakester on . Cloning hermie mom, specific genetic question. Ok, so this is something I have had happen before and I have always been curious. You bud a plant, it's 100% female, it's a beauty. You regenerate it and take clones. You bud the regen and it goes slight, >%1 hermie. No problem, knock off the flowers continue to bud. I assume the plant has had enough stress to warrant a slight freak out. So the question is, in this theoretical situation, would your clones exhibit the hermie tendency? Would the amount of time the clones spent in veg play a role Rating: 5