potrick

all my plants(5) are doing pretty well, all flowering and all female, or so it look like at first sight, when i look at the tops of all the little buds growing all i can is hairs, but on closer inspection when i look under the hairs on one of them there are little pods that don't look like pollen sacks, my plants haven't been pollenated so is this lone soldier with some sack a male? ALL YOU CAN SEE IS HAIRS WHEN YOU LOOK AT ANY OF THE TOPS OF THE BUDS!

__________________
whatever you do, take care of your shoes

plainsman1963

Balls: If you have that and white hairs, you have a Hermie!

Good pic on Grow Guide.

I have only had one hermie and I tossed the she-male into the dumpster...But I know of some who will take the balls off as they form.

Plains

potrick

but can a shemale pollenate my males?

__________________
whatever you do, take care of your shoes

Night Shadow

um no, but a shemale plant can pollinate your females. Sounds like you have 4 females, best bet is to get rid of that hermie now. If you actually want to grow it ( which i wouldnt recomend you can pluck the balls off as they grow. If you leave it with the rest that hermies pollen sacs are going to pollinate all your females and itself.

potrick

thanks for the input, and on my last post i did my females(i'm no idiot) heheh, thanks

__________________
whatever you do, take care of your shoes

potrick

once again i messed up my post, what i meant to say was that i meant to write females instead of males on my second post. you guys probably know how it goes.

__________________
whatever you do, take care of your shoes

Alabama

Hey Potrick... I have always whacked my hermies as soon as I can determine that male flowers are definitely present - mainly to avoid pollenating the grrrlz - and this season was no exception - took out a hermie about 6 weeks ago (one hermie in 26 plants) - but then I discovered a few male flowers on a big healthy flowering female and because it looks like this one is about 95% girl, and a good girl at that (8', lots of branches, well into flowering) I've been pulling off the boy parts as they appear - it's not too big a job but I can see that there are a few seeds on the hermie and on a nearby girl so I must haver missed some boy flowers. I can live with a few seeds, and in fact I'd like to have some. What I'm wondering is will those seeds resulting from a hermie father produce hermies, females or the usual 50-50 mix of male/female... and will the seeds of the hermie be different than the seeds on the all female plant?

__________________
Better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...

potrick

i'm pretty sure it would produce 50-50 male\female i think hermies normally occur only when a plant isn't mature enough and is forced into flower before it's time, anyone have some good pictures of hermies? i don't think the grow guide does

__________________
whatever you do, take care of your shoes

plainsman1963

I think potrick is right, it will just be your normal 50/50 lottery. The seeds wouldn't look any different or anything. There has to be somebody out there with more experience than me on this one, so I might be corrected!

No, the grow guide doesn't have a picture of a hermie, just male and female. Combine the two and that's what it will look like! Hairs and balls, hairs and balls...sounds like a soundtrack, hmmm.

Where'd that pipe go?

Plains
When I am lucky

Alabama

Well now, I've studied just enough genetics to be dangerous - and what I know is that this hermie thing might be more complicated than many of us think - stress can evidently cause hemaphroditism in an otherwise normal female, but I'm pretty sure a plant can have genes that either make it a hermie or increase it's tendency toward that direction without any influence from stress. It would be great if the seeds are true 50-50 but rather than guess or do wishful thinking, is there anyone who actually knows the answer either from extensive experience or from an acute comprehension of plant genetics? I would hate to go to all the trouble of growing these seeds to flowering only to find I have a passle of hermies! I'd be interested in what 3Hounds thinks. Potrick - hermies from a distance look like a normal plant, male or female - and from my experience there is a spectrum of hermieness: it can branch a lot and have many female flowers or it might be tall and skinny with more than 50% male flowers - I've had the dubious pleasure of whacking both.

__________________
Better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...