hermaphrodite seed question.

Hey all, I was breaking open a nug from my last grow and surprise, a couple seeds fell out. This plant was grown alone so even though I never saw any pollen sacks, it must have been a hermaphrodite. A first for me. My question is, if I grow these seeds will they be more prone to becomeing hermaphrodites or will they have an equal chance of being male/female like any other regular seed.

I found some seeds the same way and I have been told there is a greater chance of hermi plants.

they should be female and hermie

they should be female and hermie, other wise known as trash.

congrats couldnt say, but from knowing about plants and seeds in general its always split. in your case between 3 sides

Thanks for the info. I've only found 4 seeds so far after going through about 1oz.(or roughly half what the plant yeilded) Maybe I'll use them anyway as the smoke is pretty good.

Assuming it self-pollinated, you have a chance of girls and girls with bananas. No chance of males.

Good to know kpmarine. As I said,this plant was grown alone, in a an upstairs closet. My main grow tent is in the basement, but I didn't have room for this plant and didn't want to throw it out either, so I set a temp. grow space in a bedroom closet. It was then flowered in my main tent. I have never had a male plant and I've never got seeds before, so it must have self polinated. If it's going to definitly be a girl (or girl with bananas,lol) I think I will use them on my next grow. I've been useing bagseeds I collected over the years when I use to buy street bags so my chances of female/male/hermaphrodite are about even anyways. Atleast these seeds eliminate the worst of those options.

If you grow them outdoors they will be females with no transgender tendencies. The sun burns 'em off, just jokes, I don't know why, I guess it's the optimal growing conditions. Grow lights are no where near as bright as the sun.

An outdoor grow is not an option for me. Between my dogs, other wildlife and nosey neighbors, it's impossible. Also, I'm not sure I would consider outdoors optimal, since light/temp./humidity can't be controlled. True you can't get a better light source than the sun, but my backyard only receives about 4-5 hrs. of sun anyways. The rest of the time it's blocked by all the trees around my house.

Although, if that is true about outdoor grows preventing hermi's, it's definitly a good piece of information keep in mind.

Keep the seeds.

brimck325 said:

they should be female and hermie, other wise known as trash.

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Not true.


What most likely happened is that there was a bit of stress which caused the plant to put out a few pollen sacks.
That is not a hermaphrodite. A real hermaphrodite would have male and female flowers together from the beginning. If you didn't see any male flowers, you did not have a real hermaphrodite.

A real hermaphrodite would have an X and a Y chromosome. The OP's plant was most likely a female (with two X chromosomes) that got stressed.

The seeds will produce female plants. The resulting plants will be just as likely to produce male flowers as the parent(s).
so under the same stress, the plant will produce male flowers.

Trousers said:

Keep the seeds.



Not true.


What most likely happened is that there was a bit of stress which caused the plant to put out a few pollen sacks.
That is not a hermaphrodite. A real hermaphrodite would have male and female flowers together from the beginning. If you didn't see any male flowers, you did not have a real hermaphrodite.

A real hermaphrodite would have an X and a Y chromosome. The OP's plant was most likely a female (with two X chromosomes) that got stressed.

The seeds will produce female plants. The resulting plants will be just as likely to produce male flowers as the parent(s).
so under the same stress, the plant will produce male flowers.

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Great to know. I will definitly use them in that case.