How do you tell the difference between hemies and males?

panhead

panhead

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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

Seamaiden

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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

Barking Mad

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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

MrFishy

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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.
 
Seamaiden

Seamaiden

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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

cloudflyer

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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

goblin7dg

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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.?
 
marley'man

marley'man

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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.
 
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