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Old 08-14-2006, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by JeraldoRonaldo View Post
I've seen some hermies go the other way, from female to hermaphrodite, due to an extra long flowering cycle. I'm assuming it's the plants defense mechanism in order to get polinated. If it's just been flowering for a while without being polinated it grows male organs to ensure survival of the species. (That's how you get feminized seeds, with all females you just flower them extra long They grow balls and the resulting seeds have mostly female genetics.) I've got no clue if it can go the other way though, man, someone would have to clue me in.
True about the long flowering cycle turning them hermie. True about the defence mechinism. But I thought to get feminized seeds the hermie needs to fertilize a different, fully female plant. I didn’t think the hermie could fertilize itself to get female seeds.
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