I’m currently in week 3 of flower and found a single branch with all male flowers on a plant that is otherwise healthy and full of female flowers. I haven’t seen herming like this before so I was just curious if others had seen it before. I’ll of course be on the lookout for more nanners as the grow progresses. Admittedly I don’t know a lot about herm plants but in the past I’ve only seen male flowers pop up amongst the female buds, never just a male branch like this. I heard it mentioned a while back in an interview with the ethos genetics guy, but I wrote it off as marketing hype at the time. He described pretty much exactly what I’m seeing, a single male branch, early in flower, on an otherwise healthy and vigorous, unstressed female plant. Here’s the branch and tent:
Can you point me to some more info about monoecious cannabis? I see there are some varieties but I’m having trouble finding a lot of detailed images. The descriptions I’ve found look more like this :
Their description reads : "Male reproductive organs are found at the bottom of a seed-producing branch, while female reproductive anatomy is above the male parts. "
I see something else called the Sengbusch classification system but that seems to do more with the number/ratio of male to female structures rather than how they manifest on the plant.
There are like 4 or 5 different classifications for monoecity but not specifically about cannabis. There’s very little cannabis specific info about it and what there is would likely be about hemp as that’s where it’s bred into on purpose.
Listened to SnowHigh talking about polyembrionic seeds, and how one could be male and another female.
Although this would have shown as two shoots from a single seed, so not saying this is what’s happening here.
Still interesting stuff!
Gotcha- that’s what I was running into. Some broad descriptions of monoecious plants, a few descriptions/pictures of cannabis, the flower ratio system, and then a bunch of hemp breeders who want fiber & seed harvests from the same field without losing biomass from the earlier finishing males.
