How do you tell the difference between hemies and males?

Barking Mad

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #1

How do you tell the difference between a hermaphrodite and a male?

 

panhead

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #2

Just like in real life,males have all balls while hermies have nut's & other parts.

9 times outta 10 you'll allready have all the males pulled from the grow so you just gotta watch out for pollen sacks (aka balls) within the buds.

 

Seamaiden

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #3

A few pictures might help... I'm taking a lot of macros on my plants, but I don't have everything organized just yet. I've found one plant that has some weird parts, and lots of others that I'm not sure are even pre-flowering just yet.

 

Barking Mad

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #4

Seamaiden said:

A few pictures might help... I'm taking a lot of macros on my plants, but I don't have everything organized just yet. I've found one plant that has some weird parts, and lots of others that I'm not sure are even pre-flowering just yet.

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Heres my latest discoverys.

This is what I think is a male, but he only has 2 balls, (one either side)
I thought they were usually in clusters.

This is one of my females.

 

MrFishy

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #5

If these pics are of the same plant, it appears it may have hermie tendencies. If I only had a couple of instances of male-ness, I'd pinch it off. Very nice pics.

 

Barking Mad

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #6

MrFishy said:

If these pics are of the same plant, it appears it may have hermie tendencies. If I only had a couple of instances of male-ness, I'd pinch it off. Very nice pics.

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No they are two different plants.

 

cloudflyer

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #7

Barking Mad said:

How do you tell the difference between a hermaphrodite and a male?

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It dose not matter. You dont want either in your garden. If its not a girl trash it

 

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fdd2blk

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #8

this is a hermie ..........

 

Barking Mad

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #9

fdd2blk said:

this is a hermie .......... View attachment 145286

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So basically, a hermie has pubes with its balls right?

Thanks.

 

Johnnyorganic

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #10

Barking Mad said:

So basically, a hermie has pubes with its balls right?

Thanks.

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Line panhead said, a hermaphrodite features traits of both sexes. You will see female flowers AND male pollen sacs.

 

marley'man

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #11

can a hermie's fuck itself? and make seeds?

 

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Seamaiden

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #12

Yes. And God dammit, I have SO MANY FUCKING PICTURES. I have a few plants that are pretty unmistakably female, and ONE that I know has to be a male. The others, though... I'm just not sure. I can't help but wonder if hermaphrodites in Cannabis can be like human hermaphrodites and have an almost infinitely variable range of hermaphroditic expressions. If so, I.. I may be fucked.

How often can outdoor growers experience hermaphrodism?

 

cloudflyer

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #13

marley'man said:

can a hermie fuck itself? and make seeds?

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Hermies are created when a plant is stressed. It is a mechanism to ensure the survival of the plant.

 

Johnnyorganic

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #14

cloudflyer said:

Hermies are created when a plant is stressed. It is a mechanism to ensure the survival of the plant.

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Mostly true, but not entirely true. Some seeds have high hermaphrodite characteristics, as such they will go hermie regardless of stessors.

 

cloudflyer

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #15

Johnnyorganic said:

Mostly true, but not entirely true. Some seeds have high hermaphrodite characteristics, as such they will go hermie regardless of stessors.

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That trait is usually passed on because they came from Hermie parents though. All feminized seeds come from a hermie at one point in their life.

 

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goblin7dg

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• Jul 4, 2008

• #16

so now that we know what a hemie is, what is recommended to do with them? im guessing trowing it into the compost pile since it can also cause your other girls to produce seeds.?

 

Johnnyorganic

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• Jul 5, 2008

• #17

goblin7dg said:

so now that we know what a hemie is, what is recommended to do with them? im guessing trowing it into the compost pile since it can also cause your other girls to produce seeds.?

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Compost hermies. Shit, compost everything.

 

marley'man

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• Jul 5, 2008

• #18

when im in india i can never find a bud plant, its like a farming village area and theres
lots of wild hermies growing all over the show.
ill be taking som skunk seeds nextime and let it be.

 

Seamaiden

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• Jul 6, 2008

• #19

Didn't some Cannabis species actually originate on the Indian subcontinent? Hrm (ee).

 

vanslyke

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• Jul 6, 2008

• #20

can you make hash from hermies?