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Just curious… Stupid question?

I have a question that I hope you can answer or maybe address on one of your YouTube channels….

If I want to clone from a plant that started as female but hermed during veg will that clipping be hermaphrodite or will it grow as a female? I know all females have a recessive gene that allows it to become hermaphrodite when stressed to help the survival of the species, but if your clipping shows no sign of it morphing into a herm will it still grow as a hermaphrodite or will it grow as a female? Or did it’s genetics flip a switch in its DNA throughout the whole plant and any clipping from the plant will be hermaphrodite?

Thanx!

I watch and learn from you and your friends constantly and appreciate your thoughtful answers about horticulture in general and cannabis in particular. I hope y’all never stop growing and teaching!!

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Cap Stone

Mar 14, 2022

I think it may depend on why it hermied. If you had the perfect environment and they still grew pollen sacks, then I suspect the clones would too. If they went funky due to stress issues, then the clones you took before they hermied could be perfectly fine.

You mentioned they hermied during veg. What do you mean by that? Are you talking pre-flower? You usually do not run into these issues until bloom.

davidhalferty

Mar 14, 2022

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Thanx for the reply.

. I am 6 weeks growing two females that I wanted to try and they both got hit hard with broad mites. I got rid of the mites and the plants are alive and doing better but I am expecting the worst. I thought I might try cloning the healthy clippings.(the mites stayed mostly on top of the plant.) And then I thought it might be a waste of time if the plant I harvested the clippings ended up being a hermaphrodite. Now I’m thinking the clippings even though they look healthy are still part of a stressed plant and it still won’t matter. Like I said it’s a stupid question but I am a curious kind of guy and wanted to know for knowings sake.

I should throw them away but my curiosity wants to see what happens…. So…. I think the plan is ….. I’m gonna clone some clippings on each, then ease them both outside in the next week or two and just see what happens…. Nothing ventured, nothing gained….

Thanx for the info!! I’m always learnin…