I'm not really sure how to phrase this question, but what I'm wondering is if I were to clone a branch off of a female plant that was stressed into showing male flowers, but the branch I cloned did not show any male characteristics, would the resulting clone be purely female as the original plant was, or will the clone produce male and female flowers as it grows larger? I cloned one of the lower branches that had only female flowers and pistils growing. But almost all of the top branches show both female and male flowers. So I guess my real question is if a female plant is stressed into becoming a hermaphrodite, but the hermie traits only appear on a few branches then would the whole plant be "hermie" or just the branches on which they appear?

It would have the same characteristics as the original plant, which obviously is susceptible to producing male flowers. Don't even mess with it.

The clone might not hermy if you can keep her happy, but you already see what can happen so do what you have to do.

Almost all strains and varieties are susceptible to producing male flowers. I don't think it's a sign of weakness (maybe its an unstable strain). As for having the characteristics of the original plant the original plant was female, but severely butchered/stressed into producing male flowers. Thanks for the reply, but it doesnt really answer my question if u know what i mean.

What the fuck is so hard to understand? Your plant was never female. Cull the fucking thing already.

Calm down dude, he was looking for help, not that.

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Ya chill out a bit, maybe you don't understand, it is my understanding that purely female plants can if stressed produce male flowers. So how is my plant never female? 1-3 weeks of flowering, only female flowers, 3-4 weeks of flowering, male flowers appear under the female buds. So if my plant was not automatically a hermie, but became that way through stress would the resulting clones be female or hermie, if cloned from a branch containing no male flowers.

Well try it and find out then. I don't know why anyone would want to take the chance of having their whole garden pollinated but thats just me. From my experience some plants are more susceptible to hermie than others especially if they came from feminized seeds. I've had one plant hermie and it definitely was not due to stress, and I've also stressed the hell out of some plants that never hermied. Its not as simple as saying stress causes it, I believe it comes down to unstable genetics more than anything else.

Sucks to be you.