sex reversal

[ice#1]

i was typeing in differant words hear and there just to see if i could find some good info and found quit a few links by typeing ( cannabis sex reversal ) and from the almost 50 links i went to all stated that a male plant could turn female i'm not trying to say it can happen but read a few links from any page and see if i'm just reading it wrong or not as how it looks to me that male plants can be turned female but they are no good for breeding

[CB]

have read a bit on this as well and seen piccys

freak'n weird indeed and ya no good for breed'n

[drumin]

I was kinda wondering about this myself. I was wondering why a male plant can't go hermie from stress just like a female. It would be better for hash/oil makers if they could stress and cause buds on male plants.

[ice#1]

so i didn't read it wrong then thanks for confirming it cb i thought the admins of nirvana were full of shit when they told me it couldn't happen they evan deleted my thread that asked the same thing as i posted here so everybody could make up there mind for themselfs

[CB]

say ice,

to bad they closed the thread and not left it open to debate

seen alot of weird things happen or done to marijuana since i first started grow'n in the mid 70's :D

you every see a bud grow on a fan leaf?

grow on

[ice#1]

yes but not in person i saw it in a book. as to them closeing the thread it was becuase i was proveing the admin wrong as he said it could never happen so then he deleted the thread to keep people from seeing links that were from many differant people that said it could happen the info evan is in a book that dates back to 1931 that was written by bonanst not sure how the last word is spelled i evan contacted nirvana through e-mail and was told that they didn't want to know about what was done or said so i e-mailed them back and asked them to delete my account and that i would never buy from them again

[CB]

yes but not in person i saw it in a book.

tiss pretty cool to see indeed.... had one do that couple years back as some on HGB have seen.... pics are long gone on a forgotten site tho:mad:

might have a pic on GS.com still tho not sure....

grow on

[ice#1]

what is gs.com as i have never heard of that one

[rolanterroy]

i was typeing in differant words hear and there just to see if i could find some good info and found quit a few links by typeing ( cannabis sex reversal ) and from the almost 50 links i went to all stated that a male plant could turn female i'm not trying to say it can happen but read a few links from any page and see if i'm just reading it wrong or not as how it looks to me that male plants can be turned female but they are no good for breeding

Prolly if they were "turned" female, but when that happens on the natch (naturally) they are very high probabilties to be excellent breeders, assuming they are full of good genes to begin with of course.

It means the plant carries a "tendency" to lean female, this is an inheritable expression from my experience and we have often in the past referred to these reversed plants as anti-hermies heh heh. Because we all know the "tendency" for hermies is to lean male, U C? :gthumb:

- REv :smoke1:

[tHEaNIMICnEEDLE]

damn rolan you know some shit!:D

Like a cannabis encyclopedia

good story man

[drumin]

Nah, he's just makin shit up... :haha: :bong1:

[ice#1]

so now i know it has happened to more people than just me from the link's i've read on the subject they say that the reverse hermies is how i will refer to them from now on but like i was saying from what i read they are no good for breading as they will pass on the hermy trait weither good or bad

[rolanterroy]

A hermaphrodite tendency and a reversal are different things alltogether; a hermie (survival response normally) is so the plant can have sex with itself (and any nearby females/hermies) for survival purposes. A plant that reverses is a different beast. Yes it's a sexual mutation, however I have delt with several of these as far as breeding goes, and as long as it reversed on it's own, from a male to a female, it will carry that "tendency" into it's offspring fairly likely; this will result in higher female ratios overall, zero hermies (as per what my experience with them tells me at any rate) and a male here and there that will reverse like the p1 mommy did from a male.

Hermies aren't black and white, there are many different hermie expressions and for different reasons with different sensitivities to varios "triggers." One hermie expression, I call "The Beast" is full blown, like a wild-type often has in several of the females, like from a land race sativa strain or whatnot, that will be 50/50 male/female flowers naturally, it has evolved to use it always to supply larger nubers of offspring over many years and it is set deep in the plant's genotype. The thing about hermies though, is it will carry over into offspring generations like an inherited genetic expression, only when it is convenient for it to do so. Many times hermies will lie dormant through several generations only to rear it's ugly head with a vengence down the line someplace.

Reversals are absolute, I have never seen or heard of a true reversed sexual expression ever going backwards, I mean if a male reverses to a female or visa versa, that's it, it's complete and never reverses back, so it's a visible (phenotype) "tendency" to lean female, and in my opinion, if they are good breeders up to that point, then they stand a really good chance of being even better with THAT specific sexual mutation.

I ahave seen several strains go down the line with mommys like that and never once were hermies an issue. So as per my experience. :gthumb:

- REv :smoke1:

[ice#1]

thank's for the info everyone now i know that i was right it is possable evan though the guy's at nirvana say it's not thank's for your info people