[shivaganesha]

Really great thread... there has been much discussion on female/male ratios particularly in the last year. A lof of people (due to mr cervantes) actually believed that environmental conditions could completely reverse the sex of a plant... many even went a step further and suggested cannabis was some type of asexual plant up until the 3rd week of flower. Completely untrue of course, the male to female ratios of cannabis are 50/50, and sex is determined genetically not environmentally. So a seed will be one sex or the other, as it is a dioecious species... wasn't always that way though, the dioecious species are an advancement or evolutionary step up on the monoecious species. In other words, all dioecious species were once monoecious (hermaphrodite)... Which is why all flowering dioecious plants are said to be hermaphrodite, although i believe this gene is more easily triggered in some female plants than others.