Hermies please explain them to me!
- Thread starter Cosmic Surfer
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um...no the moon is out every night waxing or waning regardless. the light being on at night is a constant factor. if indoor plants are bred with pitch black night all the time then exposing them to varying levels of not pitch black night they will stress. let me be clear, i never said light leaks are directly responsible for hermies, i said it was stress. A light on during sleeping time is gonna stress the plants and the weak ones will hermie. and no one ever said genetics didn't play a role, if you cared to read the rest of the thread before you came in with your absolutes you would have seen the part where i and most of the people said weak genes is the leading cause of hermies.
stress is the number 2. light leaks are a stress. /the end.
yeah that's exactly what i'm saying because that is true. do you know how the defenses in your own body work by any chance?
exactly what i said.
Would expect intersex as a survival trait in landrace types , if any true ones still exist.
The subjective problem with moonlight to us , is that the eye is relatively well adapted to monochrome night vision and it looks brighter than the instruments say.
Main triggers for coral are nitrate runoff from tropical seasonal weather , tiny changes in pH and temperature as well as moonlight.
There is no described mechanism for any plant to quantify variations in gravity , the difference is tiny between nearest and most distant lunar approach .
The idea that small light leaks cause hermies , was the general excuse for unstable genetics promoted by certain scumbag breeders when customers had legitimate complaints with their overhyped untested pollen tossings.
The subjective problem with moonlight to us , is that the eye is relatively well adapted to monochrome night vision and it looks brighter than the instruments say.
Main triggers for coral are nitrate runoff from tropical seasonal weather , tiny changes in pH and temperature as well as moonlight.
There is no described mechanism for any plant to quantify variations in gravity , the difference is tiny between nearest and most distant lunar approach .
The idea that small light leaks cause hermies , was the general excuse for unstable genetics promoted by certain scumbag breeders when customers had legitimate complaints with their overhyped untested pollen tossings.
Cosmic Surfer
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well I have some serious catching up to do for sure, sorry!
I have to check it out but now I have to say that I had another potential cause for hermies and have to ask how likely it is. The lights came on when they are supposed to, but then a power outage that resulted in a very short day cycle turning into a bit longer night cycle when it was supposed to be light. The power was back on less than 2 hours later, will that short "night" cycle cause hermies? thanks
I have to check it out but now I have to say that I had another potential cause for hermies and have to ask how likely it is. The lights came on when they are supposed to, but then a power outage that resulted in a very short day cycle turning into a bit longer night cycle when it was supposed to be light. The power was back on less than 2 hours later, will that short "night" cycle cause hermies? thanks
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mac know-it-all was just getting on my nerves. I'm better now lol.
Doubtful that humidity will cause hermies. Light leaks surely will, or some other sort of lighting malfunction. Flowering for too long will also cause hermies. It's doubtful that over flowering for a couple of weeks will form much seed.
When are you seeing herms? Sometimes it's purely genetics.
When are you seeing herms? Sometimes it's purely genetics.
Cosmic Surfer
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Some have no seed, some have many, most in between. Same with pollen giving flowers, all over the map from some long dead plants with pollen being spewed from flowers to others with none and most with 1 or 2. The seeds all over the map too from green to partially mature to fully formed. I corrected the light leak, hopefully this time will be better. Please keep the ideas flowing! thanks
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NoSocSlic
That actually makes a ton of sense.
ANYTHING that throws the plant way out of homeostasis has been implicated in an increased intersexed population.... this makes sense because it's a survival mechanism, it's not about pissing off their human. Even if I'm wrong it still makes sense to keep the plant within it's healthy "norm". Keep your plants happy and they will be less likely to go all intersex on ya.... unless that is their "normal" sexual expression in which case eitherdump the genetics or get ready for daily pluckings and some seeds.
