Your plants look good and quite honestly I'm underwhelmed by Honest G's response, hard to believe blah blah blah, maybe you can post pics of the hermies and hopefully HG would replace them 'hopefully'
It is a little hard to believe the rate based on how many growers I know who have been through that strain. I think you’re reading a tone I wasn’t trying to display. I brought up the luck of the shuffle. That’s a very real thing in the world of seeds. It’s the same way some people occasionally get a pack of seeds that’s all female and then another person gets a pack that’s all male, luck of the shuffle sometimes offsets normal results. On a wide basis regular seeds are always about 50/50 male/female with a very slight advantage towards females since nature always tries to provide slightly more females than males for survival sake. Same exact reason why the combined human population of the world is 53% female and 47% male, it’s natures survival mechanism at work. Luck of the shuffle also goes for herms, with a bad shuffle a strain that’s proven quite stable on wide runs might very well have problems isolated to a single pack, and when that happens it also removes those herms from others packs by offsetting the wider odds.
So once again, it is hard to believe that many appeared in a single pack because the line has been out for literally over a year and a half and has sold 150-200 packs without anyone else reporting the issue in such high frequency. The logical thing to do is first and foremost investigate what is going on in the growroom itself.
Only after seeing what’s going on there and seeing clear and detailed pictures of all the problem plants can a replacement be issued.
So Bubba you’re jumping the gun a little bit on your comment. I only just had the issue brought to my attention. And he only just after your comment posted pictures. One of which is kinda blurry and I can’t tell what I’m looking at, I only know what he’s reporting. The other is an example of intersex herming and is very clearly visible. When that line does herm that’s what I would expect to see based on other examples of verified herms that have been found in the line. I go through a lot of trouble to make sure I don’t put out lines that show past 10% herming on wide runs. There’s no such thing as 100% stable cannabis at this current moment in the cannabis gene pool. Cannabis evolved from industrial hemp which is monoecious, or in other words always both male and female on the same plant. The dioecious varieties we have today are only separated off that line by around half a million years and as such millions of years of landrace elements are still locked up in the gene pool. Hermaphroditism is in fact a survival instinct built into cannabis over millions of years prior to its separation off the monoecious gene pool and also as a dioecious variety it’s still locked in. In all cannabis you can still use environmental factors to deny a true female the hormones that allow it to fully express as female. So number 1 before anything else I wanted to question the plants environment and feeding. Because the number being reported seems awfully high based on so many other accounts with 0-2 herms per pack on 15+ seeds.
Does that make more sense?
