Whats going on? Is this a Hermaphrodite?

What sex are they?

  • Male

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Female

    Votes: 2 50.0%
  • Hermaphrodite

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • Total voters
    4
  • Poll closed .

Motobomb62

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So I got some seeds from one of those companies online here that were supposed to be feminised. I started with two plants and took clones of each one two off one and three off another. The plant I took the two clones from looks fine but no sex showing yet. The plant that I took the three from had two "banana" flowers on it last night, but also has pistils in many more places. The clones from this plant however are a little different. It looks to me like they have a little of both sexes in them.
So my real question.. Is this a hermaphrodite plant? The pictures are of the 3 clones.
And if it is, should I let it grow somewhere seperate from the rest of my plants, let it flower, collect the pollen and make my own femisized seeds. I have read arguments that say both it does and does not work. But I'm still confused.
 

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Motobomb62

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So here is a picture of the mother plant. This is the plant that the previous pictures are of. I believe its a hermie. Does anyone else have any ideas on what it is?
 

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Motobomb62

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What is the likelyhood that a femmed seed from a shop comes out a hermie? Since they are born from hermies I would think more than half; which if that is so, I would have a better shot at getting 10 seeds with half male instead of half as many seeds with half being hermies for the same price.
 

Motobomb62

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It is officially a hermie. Checked on it last night and finally found male flowers. Should I grow it out and harvest seeds? I originally got the seeds from Nirvana. They are Snow White. If I let it pollenate itself and generate seeds will they be stable and good?
 

fdd2blk

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It is officially a hermie. Checked on it last night and finally found male flowers. Should I grow it out and harvest seeds? I originally got the seeds from Nirvana. They are Snow White. If I let it pollenate itself and generate seeds will they be stable and good?

you got seeds from a seed bank that hermied and you want to know if the hermy seeds will be good?

why haven't you just killed it yet?
 

Motobomb62

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Because I figure why not. I want to experiment with it. It has been removed from the garden area and will not affect any of my girls.
Genetically it would seem that hermie seeds would end up with hermie plants. But what if I collected hermie pollen and pollenated its sister of the same genetics. Since the hermie was a female that grew male flowers after female flowers, it would seem that the male gene is more reccessive. If crossed with a female it would make sense to me that the results would be femenized seeds.
 

stoneymontana

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that is what they say about breeding for feminised seeds but it is a long process to find the right cross to not have a ton of hermie seeds. I did this with my blueberry that I grew and every seed i grew turned hermie. but some genetics just carry the hermie trait reguardless of what you do. you can use reverse by dutch master to stop your plants from producing more male pollen sacs, just follow the directions it works pretty good.
 

fdd2blk

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Because I figure why not. I want to experiment with it. It has been removed from the garden area and will not affect any of my girls.
Genetically it would seem that hermie seeds would end up with hermie plants. But what if I collected hermie pollen and pollenated its sister of the same genetics. Since the hermie was a female that grew male flowers after female flowers, it would seem that the male gene is more reccessive. If crossed with a female it would make sense to me that the results would be femenized seeds.

hermies make hermies which make hermies which in turn make more hermies.

it's DNA and shit.
 
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