My Clone Changed Sex

I took 3 clones about 2.5 months ago from the female that i just harvested. The clones have been under light 24/7 for that entire period. I kept them in small pots to root bind them because i was short on space.

Anyway, i just brought them into the flower room last week, 2 of them are showing female flowers as expected but one just blew up with male balls(i mean A LOT of male balls). I have read about plants going hermie but this plant had no signs of female flowers even though the other two are showing only female flowers. Anyone ever had this happen? I'm sure it has something to do with the 24/7 light or the root binding, or some other stress on the plants. Just thought it was weird that 1 of 3 turned what appeared to be completely male, although it may have started to show female/hermie traits later on.

Anyway the male is dead. But i just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this. Or to let others know that it can happen.

Input welcomed.

someone told me once that this happened to them. i saw the plant when he brought it home. just looked like the other clones. he swore it was a female clone. looked fully male to me. i used the pollen from it to breed.

i dont really have the space to keep a male separate or i would have done the same. I'm absolutely sure that it is a clone from the same plant and i was very surprised at how fast the male flowers developed.

If i were to have kept this rouge male and collected the pollen and then fertilized one of the female clones(which would be technically a clone of itself), I would be inbreeding the same traits. What effect would this have? Would the seeds produced be stable and grow almost exactly like the original? Would it produce feminized seeds?
fdd, any ideas?

Did the male you are referencing turn hermie or did it stay male through the entire life cycle? What was the result of the seeds you produced from this transsexual female?

Anyone else have any experiences with this or any theories on the result of pollinating a female with a identical clone female that has turned male.

joedirt420 said:

i dont really have the space to keep a male separate or i would have done the same. I'm absolutely sure that it is a clone from the same plant and i was very surprised at how fast the male flowers developed.

If i were to have kept this rouge male and collected the pollen and then fertilized one of the female clones(which would be technically a clone of itself), I would be inbreeding the same traits. What effect would this have? Would the seeds produced be stable and grow almost exactly like the original? Would it produce feminized seeds?
fdd, any ideas?

Did the male you are referencing turn hermie or did it stay male through the entire life cycle? What was the result of the seeds you produced from this transsexual female?

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i would think it would be feminized pollen. i could be wrong.

the one we had here stayed male. it flowered and the pollen was collected. it is now the "backbone" of all my personal strains. my breeding started with that male.

Damn, i should have kept it and pollinated a branch or two. A bunch of feminized seeds would have been nice. Oh well.

thinking back though........i did get male and female seeds.

If i was to imbreed the transexual male to a female clone of itself, would this result in very stable seeds and/or would i just be passing on the gene that helps to cause a female to change to a male?
Any ideas?