Flower anomaly

[Odjob]

I figured this plant was a herm and I was going to chuck it. The only reason I never was because of the early flower size. I got quite a surprise when I started to look closer!

 

[Reave]

Very interesting. Guess it pays to make sure.

 

[Odjob]

When you disect it there's no anthers, just a bundle of caylxs. Anyway it gets a second chance just to see which way it want's to go.

 

[bobrown14]

Takes a while like 2-3 weeks for the plant to mature enough to throw pollen.

You have a lot of time to figure out sex.

Plants are not mature until they are growing alternating leaves. So you cant make a call till that's happening.

Growing plants takes some patience.

 

[Odjob]

I'm a senior citizen and been at this since I was 15. I've got all the time in the world

 

[Odjob]

They really are underway.

 

[bobrown14]

I'm a senior citizen and been at this since I was 15. I've got all the time in the world

Perfect me too!

A lot of folks new to cannabis growing wanna know if its a boy or a girl before the plant has matured = alternating leaf sets. Its weeks too soon and then after that you have several more weeks to worry about it.

I've seem males that I fer sure thought were females.... lotsa times. Too many to count.
The girls like the males hanging around tho.

 

[Odjob]

Not me, and not mine.

 

[Odjob]

Well the second chance was short lived, l found anthers this morning and will post a pic later. The plant is Apex, megladon x so cal master kush ........ I mean was.

 

[SmokingWings]

Well the second chance was short lived, l found anthers this morning and will post a pic later. The plant is Apex, megladon x so cal master kush ........ I mean was.

Good photo and great looking plant to go with that photo.

Not sure of exactly what you found but several times I have found male parts (the bananas) starting to form on some of my flowering plants. Most of the buds would look nice, similar to what you have going on that plant, but down below the major canopy would be where the banana parts showed up sticking out from those very small flower buds that most people do not want.

I would cut or nip those tiny buds off. Sometimes a small branch would have 3 or 4 buds on it and each one had one or more bananas showing so I took the whole branch off. It would be several weeks before they started showing up again. Towards the final couple of weeks a few would appear in the top buds but it was easy to nip them off with a with the very tips of a pair of trimming scissors.

It happened on the clones off he original plant. The clones off of the first generation of clones had the same problem. The clones off of the clones off of the first generation of clones, well, only some of them had the problem. Now I am getting ready to harvest several clones from the 4th generation working down from the original plant and no male flowers to be found. Throughout all these growing sessions with the original mother plant and down through all the clones I did not find any seeds. (Would have to check records to be sure of that but I don't remember any.)

Not sure why the male flowers are not showing up any more. One theory is that when I switched from the cabinet I used for flowering to using a tent it took me awhile to figure out the best and easiest way to keep the temperatures and humidity in a better range. Maybe the high temps and humidity levels kept the bananas from forming?

 

[Odjob]

It only happened on the early flowering nodes so who knows? I'm trading it to my sister for another plant. She won't know and won't care. The pollen chuckers I finally found where hiding. The 4 plant thing sucks but i'm still greatfull

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[bobrown14]

Not me, and not mine.

The girls know when there's a guy in da house.