Once a hermie always a hermie?

[EastCoastGambit]

I had a couple plants throw some balls as I resume in response to defoliation stress. I was going to cull them but decided to set them up in another isolated area as I had extra lights.

Seems like after another 10 days or so they have kind of stopped making male parts and stabilized, is that typical?

I would be hesitant to return them to the main flowering tent as I don't want to deal with the risk of it all but was curious for future grows if early balls can be plucked and then return to normal? I assume its situational

 

[igrowone]

situational is a good description
from my modest experience(and others), just about anything is possible with intersex popping up

 

[Ca++]

If a good pruning can promote such growth, Then the more usual triggers are very likely to do the same. Such an itchy trigger finger isn't something I would contend with. I have worked things that chuck a couple of bananas at the end, when it's too late to matter. A plants has to be very special for me to work something like that though, and over time, cutting after cutting, they just get worse.

 

[Creeperpark]

Some things you can't fix and when with comes to certain inner recessive traits It has to be bred out with time. You see it today because its hard to breed out.

 

[EastCoastGambit]

Yes I wouldn't try and breed/continue the line. Even the plants of the same strain that didn't show intersex would be suspect in my book.

 

[Ca++]

Yes I wouldn't try and breed/continue the line. Even the plants of the same strain that didn't show intersex would be suspect in my book.

Yeah, it's a useful trait for a plant to keep. A single bean transported by a bird to an island, can still colonise it. It's an evolutionary save, that we have been trying to breed out for ages. Any sign of it needs some genocidal behaviour, if we are ever to succeed.