The hermie experiment , true or false ?

Discussion in 'Growing Marijuana Indoors' started by tk86high, Jul 7, 2013.

  1. So I have always wondered if a plant Hermies on u the last few weeks of flowering r the seeds then female male mixed or will it always be hermie genetics ?

    Lots of people have claimed different results , so to try to find the truth I have planted 5 OG kush hermie seeds I got off my last harvest and find out what's gonna happen .
    Thought it would be cool to see other people's ideas of hermie seeds and also to maybe learn from my experiment .

    OG kush seeds from a hermie plant
    400W MH veggie , 400W HPS flowering .

    Will update pics as things progress .
     
  2. Sex in cannabis is more of a sliding scale, than male or female. Going hermie is a survival trait. Now some plants are just plain old hermies that produce more hermies.  Growers have been "weeding them out" for decades!  They are getting scarcer!
     
    So you have a female plant and you stress her some how, or just keep her virgin too long, she may hermie! Just depends on her genetics. Some females, you can all but "torture" and they stay female- they lack the genes needed to go hermie. These have to be treated with silver or other chemicals to force them to develop male flowers to make seeds - these are your "feminized seeds".
     
    But most female cannabis plants can be abused into hermie-ism, as can just keeping them virgin for too long. The plant gets stressed and if the genes are there, you get a hermie. 
     
    If I find seeds in buds, I decide whether to keep the seeds or not, by their number! If I got just a few seeds, I keep them. Mama plant put out just a couple "last ditch" male flowers. She (genetically) didn't want to, but forced herself, as a survival trick. If there is a big old bunch of seeds, the birds get a treat!  Chances are, Mama plant had the hermie genes and made a big bunch of male flowers!
     
  3. All the seeds I'm using now came from a plant that Hermied the last weeks but ended up giving me over 50 seeds . And these r the seeds I'm trying this test out with . Will be interesting to see how it plays out as I was always told just like ure saying ,
    If its a few seeds reuse them if its lots of seeds throw them out .
    I think if the seeds happen during the final weeks then all the seeds should be hermie or female . But hey I could be wrong that's why I'm trying this out lol .
     

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