This has been a weird plant from the very start. It always looked different than the other seedlings it was raised with, and at the very least is a different phenotype than the others. At the present, it is 9 weeks old and still vegging.

All the others have been sexed and this one has held out. I have gotten comments from others looking at these nodes like, "damn strange" and "now there is a true hermaphodite!" and "hell if I know."

Let's see what you all think. There are 4 sets of these in each major node. All of them are the same. What starts out looking like a male part develops two thin dark tubes that split off from the center green part and look like tarantula fangs. On a few sites, at the top of those tubes a double wispy pistil looking thing pokes out... not in a classic V, but like radio antennas on a skyscraper.

I have looked and looked for examples such as these in books and the internet. I can not find an example of this anywhere. I have seen plants stressed into being a hermaphrodite that can have both sex organs in a spot like this... but never in a configuration like this.

What do you all think? I need to flip the switch soon and don't want to take the risk of this baby popping out pollen on me. I am tempted to kill it just for being difficult, but I am curious if anyone has seen this before. Is this what a hermi looks like when it is meant to be one from the very start?

Emmie
emilya Reviewed by emilya on . True Hermi? This has been a weird plant from the very start. It always looked different than the other seedlings it was raised with, and at the very least is a different phenotype than the others. At the present, it is 9 weeks old and still vegging. All the others have been sexed and this one has held out. I have gotten comments from others looking at these nodes like, "damn strange" and "now there is a true hermaphodite!" and "hell if I know." Let's see what you all think. There are 4 sets of Rating: 5