Hermy? Male? Female?

[stihgnobevoli]

I have a plant that just started flowering like a week ago. it showed preflowers that looked like they could be one male and one female. the next node to show sex showed 3 sets of pistils one 3 of the 4 corners of the node. (2 leaves one sex organ on either side of the meristem. anyway after that it looks like your typical female with hermy traits. i decide to watch it for a while since it's a ecsd cross which i hear hermies sometimes.

anyway few days later i inspect the original 2 preflowers and surely one is indeed a ball. then i look the plant all over closer and it's all balls every node. cept the top where it initially showed female.

what do i make of this? is it a male? plain old hermy? super female?

not even put em under stress yet

 

[mr bub]

It's happened to me a few times, a plant I thought was female, I thought I saw hairs, put it in to flower and a week later its a male. Sometimes you have to wait until its obvious.

 

[WelderDan]

It could be an inter-sex male. I had a plant (Butterscotch Hawaiian) that was most obviously male. Showed balls first, then started throwing pistils. It was super sticky with lots of trichomes, but threw loads of pollen. I saved a bunch of pollen and used it a few times before it was no longer viable. All offspring have been hermie free and after two or three runs of the same cuts they haven't hermed. Everything I hit with that pollen has been fire. On the third run of a C99 x BSH cut and it is looking fine. Your mileage may vary of course...

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i spent last night reading all the threads i could find on males showing female. mixed reviews. some say it's a hermy and i should toss. some say it's might be intersex which i need to look up the meaning of. others say it is male with high propensity for female genes. some say it's a female that just looks male. apparently the test will be if it can self itself. then it's a hermy female. if it's sterile it's a sterile male. if it's viable might still be hermy junk.

 

[Catatafish]

The ecsd cut i have is sterile. I stressed it early on in flowering and it put out some nuts. When i chopped down everything the other day i found a few on the floor that i missed snipping off. Havent found a seed while trimming. There is lots of airflow so the likely hood of it not making contact is very slim.

I have seen a weird thing happen on a different plant when i stressed it awhile back by leaving a light on accidently one night (bathroom light, not hid). The calyx at the internode that was clearly female kinda popped open and and male sac popped out of it eventually. Never really seen that before. This plant, in other unstressed runs does not herm or do that. Not saying you stressed it but just some odd stuff i have seen recently.

Both of these happened early in flower which im begining to think is where things are much more sensitive to stress vs later in flower. I usually only see stray nanners in late flower as to where i see sacs in early flower. Week 2-3.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

ok so like i said before about how it started showing a male and a female first preflower. next all preflower was female. then i see a male flower on all the lower nodes first so i think ok this is a male that has hermy female. but now look at this shit.

all female flowers with the exception of the male flower that was at the start of all the secondary branches. so whats going on here? male? female with hermy tendencies? plain old herm?

i don't see any more male parts forming. i'm tempted to just pull all the male parts and see what happens, but it might be too much stress and cause it to flip out all the way?

would you personally kill this or wait it out? i'm thinking maybe if i wait till right before the sacs are about to pop and then yank em? should be less stressful?

 

[Ganjaganjakush]

I had some 818 headband bagseed just do this I ended up cutting the thing down last night even though it was some dank smelling stuff . Is say if you want some hermie seeds leave it otherwise it's wise could leave you with a headache a month from now

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i plucked off all the balls and i think they're still on my windowsill, like 12 in total, once i saw the first flower starting to open. So far been a couple days and no signs of more balls coming on. here's some pics i took yesterday.

so far so GIRL. i'll let you know how it turns out, i guess no one else has this experience before.