Tony Aroma
10-03-2008, 09:09 PM
I've been growing on and off for many, MANY years now and just experienced my first hermie. At least the first I was ever aware of. I'm guessing this was caused by heat stress early in veg.
I had 7 plants and the lone male showed its gender first. A few days later the rest proved to be females, with the exception of one I just wasn't sure of. Looked like male preflowers, but a couple of days later it started showing white hairs. I decided it was a late-showing female and forgot about it. A few days later I thought I'd take a look at those preflowers I had a hunch were male, and sure enough there were two little bananas there (actually more like footballs, since they were just getting started), one at each leaf joint. I pulled them off and again forgot about it. Now 3 weeks into 12/12 I decided to do another closer examination of this plant and found four more little male flowers which I promptly plucked off. I checked the whole plant and that's all I found.
So that's a total of 6 individual male flowers on an otherwise very nice looking female. Should I be worried? Are more male flowers likely to appear? If they do and I pull them off, will it affect the plant?
I had 7 plants and the lone male showed its gender first. A few days later the rest proved to be females, with the exception of one I just wasn't sure of. Looked like male preflowers, but a couple of days later it started showing white hairs. I decided it was a late-showing female and forgot about it. A few days later I thought I'd take a look at those preflowers I had a hunch were male, and sure enough there were two little bananas there (actually more like footballs, since they were just getting started), one at each leaf joint. I pulled them off and again forgot about it. Now 3 weeks into 12/12 I decided to do another closer examination of this plant and found four more little male flowers which I promptly plucked off. I checked the whole plant and that's all I found.
So that's a total of 6 individual male flowers on an otherwise very nice looking female. Should I be worried? Are more male flowers likely to appear? If they do and I pull them off, will it affect the plant?