Anyone Seen a Male Hermi?

I have Blue Bonnet that was 4:4 male:female of 8 plants. But all four males had some female flowers. I OPd the males and one of them set seed. I don’t have any particular plans with these, but I would be curious to see how they screen for sex. I sort of suspect you could make a male monecious variety from it. It could be cool if you could make a variety that has a skewed sex representation towards full females. But it would also have to not have difficult to ID, slightly intersex females (type 5). And since feminization technology exists, there isn’t really a purpose for it… unless you are growing a food-seed crop. Supposedly, old school hazes (known to be prone to intersex plants) often skew female from seed (all Cannabis can do that, but unusually high, like 70% -so I hear.)

The attached pictures are from “the cultivation of hemp” by ivan bocsa

Also this book has an interesting (though not necessarily conclusive or accurate) discussion of cannabis sex
https://www.hempbasics.com/hhusb/hh4bot.htm#HH45

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