Cull intersex/slightly pistillate males?? Or no?

[oceangrownkush]

I know I have read somewhere that DJ short highly recommends using pistillate males.

So I'm curious, what does the breeders corner of IC think? I got 7 "males" of Tres Dawg IX going. I wanted to keep it open pollination style to preserve genetic diversity in the offspring.. But not at the cost of a huge ratio of hermaphrodites. So do I cull the males which are now exhibiting a few pistils?? Or keep them around to preserve diversity?

I know that a male could carry hermie rich genes even without showing intersex traits, so I'm leaning toward just keeping them all and letting em get nasty with all these hoes..... But I'm still not entirely decided.

What say you IC?

 

[Mate Dave]

Light stress test them all drought test them, note the growth patterns/phyllotaxy, then snip the top off them all and grow them on and see which has most vigour. This will show you inside the xylem and phloem, you will see hollow or pith. After this I would toss any shit plants and then clone each male and cross them individually to the best pedigree or most pure true pistillate plants in stock. Then ear to row progeny test each batch to find the best combination. Good luck as this is the only way to do it.

From what I gather from growing various variety’s from DJ is that he was not so careful with his selection which is why half the seed types are shity colourful runts.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

I wouldn't put a male with a few pistils in the same category as a true herm just as I wouldn't call a female with a few late flowering nanners a herm either.

To me a true herm to me is 50/50 male and female sex at flip. < That would go in the trash.

If that's what you got, and you are looking to make more out of your investment I'd say use them. Then you will have more free seeds to look thru, much better then killing them all then wishing you had made them or then having to spend more money on another pack.

If you got 7 like that odds are you get more of them if you went thru another pack.

I've grown crosses made from females that were pretty damn hermi and have gotten offspring that was solid as a rock.

 

[oceangrownkush]

I took down just one of the males. The rest of them are only slightly and I mean *slightly* pistilate, less than 10 pistils on each from what I can see..... The he/she that got the axe today was straight hairball up top, wanted to be a nug.



here's the offender.. Got to live a short while as a houseplant, got smoked out tough to calm its nerves.... Then to the gallows.

 

[homebrew420]

I think I would toss, only due to the fact that it appears to be a trend. Make seeds and lable as such? May bea waste of time. You never really know though.

Good luck

 

[oceangrownkush]

They are all dead now Only one before his/her time, the rest stayed nice and ballsy, a stray hair or two but covered in resin and no fully intersex flower clusters.. It has come to my attention that I may have left my garage light on outside the tent more than a handful of times, lol. So I am not worried about hermie expression in the offspring, especially since the female Tres Dawg IX's stayed so very lady like..