same as humans, its goes wrong during the dna making process. or male to female pollination. It gives both the female and male parts. Same thing will happen when you have kids, you don't know what your going to get.
Stress.......... Light and other conditions changing alot can do it. Some strains will do this automatically starting a week or so before harvest. This is okay and can be a sign that its almost time to harvest.
So this has nothing to do with hermies but, my one plant is growing really really weiird, now the stem leaves the dirt pulls a 180 burries itself again and then pops out as a healthy plant growing straight up. Was it a stress thing?
Plants turn hermaphroditic in two ways. Some plants are programmed genetically as hermaphrodites. These plants will produce male flowers on female plants no matter what environmental situations they face. Other plants are induced to grow male flowers under stress conditions. Some plants may be more genetically predisposed to hermaphrodite under stress, but all plants may exhibit male flowers as a sign of stress created by growing conditions. This hermaphroditism is not genetic and does not affect the plant's progeny. Sometimes plants that aren't hermaphroditic outdoors will grow male flowers when grown indoors as a stress response. Stresses can include lighting regiment irregularities, low light conditions or response to hormones. If a genetic hermaphrodite is crossed to a non-hermaphroditic female, about half of the resulting plants will be hermaphroditic. If the hermaphroditism was caused by environmental factors, then none, some, or all of the progeny will exhibit male flowers depending on whether the plants have inherited a tendency towards hermaphroditism under stress conditions and whether the plants face those conditions. SRH - Do you have any pics of this plant? How old is it? GFam
