For end of flower stage hermie Nanners it’s also a survival for the female to know if it has been pollinated by a male for future generations to proceed. So some genetics def will pull that limit per week, a good example is GG4 8.5-9 weeks or it will pull some nanners sometimes
stress and unstable genetics play huge rolls , like many things prevention and knowing the issue is the key
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What is a Hermaphrodite cannabis plant?
Monoecious, or unisexual plants also occur in cannabis plants in some cases: male and female flowers on a single plant. This is an evolutionary survival strategy that allows cannabis plants to reproduce in an emergency, even when there are no males around. However, there are two causes for a female cannabis plant to produce male flowers. In some cases, stress causes a cannabis plant to become a hermaphrodite, and in other cases, cannabis plants have a genetic predisposition to it.
The issues with feminized seeds
To understand why hermaphrodite cannabis plants are often associated with
feminized marijuana seeds, you need to know how feminized cannabis seeds are made. This is the short version: a female plant is intentionally stressed with a particular substance by a grower. This is often gibberellic acid, but silver water and other substances are also used. The stress causes the female cannabis plant to go into a kind of emergency mode and to produce male flowers.
Because the female cannabis plant only has x chromosomes (sex chromosomes) and a male cannabis plant has both x and y chromosomes, the pollen determines the sex of the seed. In a normal situation, the seed principle has received an x chromosome from the parent plant, and either an x or a y chromosome from the parent plant. However, when the pollen comes from a female plant, it always contains an x chromosome and never a y chromosome, for the simple reason that female cannabis plants do not have y chromosomes. The seed that results from this always has two x-chromosomes (one from the hermaphrodite pollen, and one from the mother plant in which the seed grows) and will therefore always be female.
To make feminized cannabis seeds, female cannabis plants are deliberately made hermaphrodite.
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