hermie condition factors

[Guest]

though a disrupted photoperiod is the main reason for sex reverseal, it looks like any kind of stress can turn a female into a hermie.
Lately I put some rooted clones directly into flowering with no further veg growth.combined with heavy watering on a medium I didn't know (coco fibers), it gave me hermies.Therefore nutrient disorder, heat and moisture stress, heavy pruning seem to induce sex reverseal too.It happened to me on several setups with sometime no visible reason.

I'd be interested to hear about your hermie stories, especially: why did they turn hermie , what not to do to avoid hermies.

thank you.

 

[sahima]

Hi, I don't have personal experience, but from what i have read from others, light leaks and heat stress are the most common reasons for having hermies.
I have read from dutch passion that there are some enviromental factors that can change your male/female ratio. Like the red light from a sodium lamp during veg, high temperatures, low humidity , and a high Phosforus (P) concertation at your soil during vegging can cause more males. And some claim that having a MH bulp (white-blue light), low temps, high humidity and high N concetration during veg gives them more females.
Greetings

 

[Guest]

thank you for your input.I am actually wondering about undiscovered stress factors: I don't know , it could be noise or electric/magnetic fields, high or low pressure.I wonder if people have some theories about this.

 

[Azra3l]

Hi,

First reason is genetics...
Polyploidy or monoecious allele will tend to express when put under stress



Have a nice day

 

[Guest]

Hi,

First reason is genetics...
Polyploidy or monoecious allele will tend to express when put under stress



Have a nice day

I'm thinking the same thing. I have limited experience growing, having just finished my fourth grow and just started my fifth. The last grow an indica produced a few staminate flowers, but the sativa, which received the exact same treatment, didn't. I start flowering from seed, and try to maintain an 11/13 schedule, but sometimes my schedule results in this being thrown off and the plants receive more than 12 hours of light. Now, I haven't grown many plants, but I've been doing the same thing since my first grow and I've only encountered one transgendered individual, which leads me to believe that a plant is genetically predisposed to grow male flowers, or, in the case of a male, grow pistillate flowers.

 

[Guest]

I agree with everyone; out of two clones from the samemother, one is 100% female, the other is 50% male.I'm still quiet puzzled about it...

 

[sproutco]

I think the majority of hermies are genetically carrying this trait and will show male flowers no matter what you do. I have exposed 100's of plants to light leaks, bad growing conditions like temperature, weird photoperiods, shifting from indoor to outdoor, etc... and never 1 hermie. I did have a skunk #1 strain that would hermie every grow no matter what you did. In this case, you could easily remove the male flowers and get buds with no seeds.

Interestingly, all my plants have been bag seed (excellent pot) except the hermie skunk #1. Do you all think todays strains that have a name have been tinkered with too much?

 

[Guest]

Interestingly, all my plants have been bag seed (excellent pot) except the hermie skunk #1. Do you all think todays strains that have a name have been tinkered with too much?

You may have a point. I've only grown bagseed, and it's been much better than the original pot that I purchased. But then again, hermaphrodism is inherent in cannabus, so I think you're always going to be faced with the possibilities of HeShe's. Kinda like picking up girls in Thailand.

 

[Guest]

yes sproutco, I think there's been too much inbreeding: When I started growing, about ten years ago, I had shiva shanti , which remains a pure strain compared to what is produced now.I never had to worry about hermies, whatever was going on.Now, with the strains you see in my signature, it seems that the main factor for growing females is luck.They were a gidt from a breeder friend.I'll wait till I can afford quality pure genetics again, like afghani, kush...