New Grower Opinions - Male, Female, or Unknown?

[cres]

Lets back up to the first post....

I've got a question for the collective brains here at AFN. I've got an Mi5 that is 22 days old, though it's smaller than normal because I was forced to move it outside into ~50 degree temps for several days last week.

I think your answer is right there andy... I'm preaching all the time about stress and plants.. Some stress-ers can be as simple as temperature. If there is a presence of both male and female then it can be labled only as hermaphroditic. Now if this plant goes more leaning towards a male or female is not important. IMO it should be killed before it spreads its unwelcome trait to the pool.

 

[AndyBotwin]

After another night of growth, he's definitely a boy with some weird female tendencies. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I had to chop him. Cres, no breeding this time, but I definitely wouldn't have wanted any of that freakaziod pollen anyway. Thanks again for all the comments and advice.

 

[cres]

I had a friend he breed auto male herm to f3 and by f3 both males and females were 100% herm. Then a tornado blew his house off the fondation, he got in trouble and his herm pollen was blown across then nation...

IMO he proved that you can easily breed cannabis right back into a Monoecious plant, or maybe its just a subdioecious.. I'll leave that open for discussion here are the terms...

• Hermaphrodite. In hermaphroditic species, each reproductive unit (as in flower, conifer cone or functional equivalent) of each individual has both male and female structures. In angiosperm terminology a synonym is monoclinous from the Greek "one bed".
• Monoecious. In monoecious species, each individual has reproductive units that are merely female and reproductive units that are merely male. The name derives from Greek "monos" (one) and "ecos" (home), a rather unfortunate term. Individuals bearing separate flowers of both sexes at the same time are called simultaneously or synchronously monoecious. Individuals that bear flowers of one sex at one time are called consecutively monoecious; plants may first have single sexed flowers and then later have flowers of the other sex. Protoandrous or protandrous describes individuals that function first as males and then change to females; protogynous describes individuals that function first as females and then change to males.
• Dioecious. In dioecious species, each individual has reproductive units that are either merely male or merely female. That is, no individual plant of the population produces both microgametophytes (pollen) and megagametophytes (ovules).[5] From Greek for "two households". [Individual plants are not called dioecious; they are either gynoecious (female plants) or androecious (male plants).]
  • Androecious, plants producing male flowers only, produce pollen but no seeds, the male plants of a dioecious population.
  • Gynoecious, plants producing female flowers only, produces seeds but no pollen, the female of a dioecious population. In some plant populations, all individuals are gynoecious with non sexual reproduction used to produce the next generation.
• Subdioecious, a tendency in some dioecious populations to produce individuals that are not clearly male or female. The population produces normally male or female plants but some may be monoecious, hermaphroditic, or monoecious/hermaphroditic, with plants having perfect flowers, both male and female imperfect flowers, or some combination thereof, such as female and perfect flowers. Flowers may be in some state between purely male and female, with female flowers retaining non-functional male organs or vice versa. The condition is thought to represent a transition between hermaphroditism and dioecy.[6][7]
  • Gynomonoecious has both hermaphrodite and female units.
  • Andromonoecious has both hermaphrodite and male units.
  • Subandroecious has mostly male flowers, with a few female or hermaphrodite flowers.
  • Subgynoecious has mostly female flowers, with a few male or hermaphrodite flowers.
• Polygamy, plants with male, female, and perfect (hermaphrodite) flowers on the same plant, called trimonoecious or polygamomonoecious plants, (see next section for use for plant populations).[8] A polygamous inflorescence has both unisexual and bisexual flowers.[9]
  • Trimonoecious (polygamous) - male, female, and hermaphrodite floral morphs all appear on the same plant.
• Diclinous ("two beds"), an angiosperm term, includes all species with unisexual flowers, although particularly those with only unisexual flowers, i.e. the monoecious and dioecious species.

Holly (Ilex aquifolium) is dioecious: (above) shoot with flowers from male plant; (top right) male flower enlarged, showing stamens with pollen and reduced, sterile stigma; (below) shoot with flowers from female plant; (lower right) female flower enlarged, showing stigma and reduced, sterile stamens with no pollen


[edit] Plant population

Most often plants show uniform sexual expression in populations or species wide and specific terms are used to describe the sexual expression of the population or species.

• Hermaphrodite, plants whose flowers have both male and female parts.
• Monoecious (meaning "one house" in Greek) plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. A plant population where the male and female organs are found in different flowers on the same plant. These plants are often wind pollinated. Examples of monoecious plants include corn,[10] birch and pine trees,[11] and most fig species.[12]
• Dioecious (meaning "two houses" in Greek), all plants are either female or male. The American Holly (Ilex opaca) is a famous example.
• Androdioecious, both male and hermaphrodite plants present.
• Gynodioecious, both female and hermaphrodite plants present. In some plants, strictly female plants are produced by the degeneration of the tapetum, a shell-like structure in the anther of a flower where the pollen cells form,[13]
• Gynoecy plants are all females in a population, often regulated by environmental factors like temperature, photo period or water availability.
• Polygamous, when there is a mix of hermaphrodite and unisexual plants in the natural population.[14]
  • Subdioecious, population of unisexual (dioecious) plants, with monoecious individuals too.[15]
  • Trioecious, sometimes used in place of subdioecious when male, female, and hermaphrodite plants are more equally mixed within the same population.
• Polygamodioecious, having bisexual and male flowers on some plants, and bisexual and female flowers on others.[16]

 

[Captain cure]

Smooth move.