Male flower emerging from a bud?

DubB83 said:

You should be ok, BTW your plant looks great! Do you have a pic of the whole sha-bang?

I'm running a SOG so hermis are an automatic loss to me kinda like males. I have no room for pollen in a SOG! Ha ha ha.

Here is a picture of a plant that went hermi at week 10 and was still wanting to flower!

Far away:

Up close:

The purple thing is the male banana, for some reason this is the first time I have had a plant go that long and have bananas that were not yellow.

Here is a typical FORCED hermi from my garden:

See the bright yellow male flowers?

Crazy huh!

~GG420

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DubB83 said:

This budz for you!

~GG420

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MrFishy said:

I'm not aware of the source, but found this here on RIU and personally, agree with the statement.

" . . . occassionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism."

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DorianGray said:

Thank you sir, for the peace of mind.

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DorianGray said:

I have a few
They're all heathly and happy. No nute overload, wind damage, or heat stress. Except for the one bud that showed a naner.

DG

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