{"id":8461,"date":"2020-06-19T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pevgrow.com\/blog\/hermaphrodite-marijuana-plants-how-to-detect-and-fix-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:54:42","slug":"hermaphrodite-marijuana-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pevgrow.com\/blog\/en\/hermaphrodite-marijuana-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermaphroditism in Cannabis plants. So, what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time<\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Among cannabis plants<\/b> we can find dioecious and monoecious<\/b> specimens, that is, individuals that only show a defined sex and others that contain flowers of both sexes in the same plant<\/b>. Originally they were all monoecious, as is the case with almost all varieties of industrial hemp as well as the vast majority of vegetables on the planet.<\/p>\n

In the past this was not a problem, because cannabis was used for making fibres and the seeds were eaten, so every plant was valid. Then they started smoking the flowers after removing the seeds, as well as producing hashish centuries later, and they soon realized that female plants were much better for these purposes, or that they barely showed any male flowers.<\/p>\n

It was the human hand that began to isolate the best females for its own use, and by selection and crossing the dioecious traits were fixed in some pure varieties. From the best stable Landraces came the first hybrids, and from them most of the polyhybrids we know nowadays. The vast majority of cannabis seeds<\/a> nowadays are of well-defined sex, but there are still genetics that can show hermaphroditism and this is what we will see here. What is a hermaphrodite cannabis plant and what can we do with it?<\/b><\/p>\n

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