Are these feminine or hermaphrodite seeds?

GreenForMiles

GreenForMiles

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So the story is, this was my first time growing in a sCrog. In the grow tent was 10 females. Somehow while I was trimming them, a few plants I noticed were seeded. I never found any pollen sacs and it seems every node was a female bud.

I’m guessing the high stress of the SCrog made a herme somewhere and that herme seeded a few of my females. The seeds are nice and mature and I let the plants live a total of 23 weeks. Something like 14 in flowering.

ive Seen you make fem seeds by spraying a female with silver until it herme’s, then breeding it with another female. I grow indoors with limited time and space, so I use feminized seeds only. Should I toss these seeds because they’ll have a chance of being herme, or are they female?
 
farmingfisherman

farmingfisherman

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Plants towards the end of their life cycle will throw a few seeds so they can reproduce the next season. From what I have read the seeds should be females.
 
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craighogrow

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I used to always kill hermies, and yes; these appear to be hermie flowers, all loose and funky looking buds. Like Archie Bunker used to say about "morphadites"..."Too much of one thing and not enough of either." Last year, I was still recovering after two years since nearly losing my left lower limb due to osteomyelitis, and I didn't intentionally grow during that time, but I had feral plants all over the yard from dumping bubble hash stock containing seeds. Roughly 1 out of 4 plants were hermaphrodite, but all the rest were female. I killed all but one hermie that grew in a far corner of the yard. I suspect the plant was also a polyploid mutant because it grew faster and larger than any of the others. It was insanely big and produced pounds of flowers like yours. Big (albeit loosely structured) flowers with tons of trichomes. In fact, pound for pound, it produced more quality, full melt bubble hash than any other plant in my 25 years of growing and extracting. Again, it produced feminized and possibly "hermaphrodized" seeds. Now, Since LED lights have finally become adaptable for growing indoors, I started a tent crop from my best "straight" strains, allowing me to avoid bugs, save on nutrients and avoid pollination from neighbors (everyone grows here, including plenty who have no clue what they are doing) without a huge electric bill and the temperature issues that I experienced with HID and HPS lights. So, I am going to let the hermies rule outdoors, cross pollinating with several strains from my seed bank while I grow top shelf nugs inside. I also wish to experiment with creating polyploid plants using a mutagen, like the Columbians did in the 1970s-1980s with "gold" strains. I am a scientist at heart, so this should be fun!
 
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craighogrow

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craighogrow said:
I used to always kill hermies, and yes; these appear to be hermie flowers, all loose and funky looking buds. Like Archie Bunker used to say about "morphadites"..."Too much of one thing and not enough of either." Last year, I was still recovering after two years since nearly losing my left lower limb due to osteomyelitis, and I didn't intentionally grow during that time, but I had feral plants all over the yard from dumping bubble hash stock containing seeds. Roughly 1 out of 4 plants were hermaphrodite, but all the rest were female. I killed all but one hermie that grew in a far corner of the yard. I suspect the plant was also a polyploid mutant because it grew faster and larger than any of the others. It was insanely big and produced pounds of flowers like yours. Big (albeit loosely structured) flowers with tons of trichomes. In fact, pound for pound, it produced more quality, full melt bubble hash than any other plant in my 25 years of growing and extracting. Again, it produced feminized and possibly "hermaphrodized" seeds. Now, Since LED lights have finally become adaptable for growing indoors, I started a tent crop from my best "straight" strains, allowing me to avoid bugs, save on nutrients and avoid pollination from neighbors (everyone grows here, including plenty who have no clue what they are doing) without a huge electric bill and the temperature issues that I experienced with HID and HPS lights. So, I am going to let the hermies rule outdoors, cross pollinating with several strains from my seed bank while I grow top shelf nugs inside. I also wish to experiment with creating polyploid plants using a mutagen, like the Columbians did in the 1970s-1980s with "gold" strains. I am a scientist at heart, so this should be fun!
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craighogrow said:
I used to always kill hermies, and yes; these appear to be hermie flowers, all loose and funky looking buds. Like Archie Bunker used to say about "morphadites"..."Too much of one thing and not enough of either." Last year, I was still recovering after two years since nearly losing my left lower limb due to osteomyelitis, and I didn't intentionally grow during that time, but I had feral plants all over the yard from dumping bubble hash stock containing seeds. Roughly 1 out of 4 plants were hermaphrodite, but all the rest were female. I killed all but one hermie that grew in a far corner of the yard. I suspect the plant was also a polyploid mutant because it grew faster and larger than any of the others. It was insanely big and produced pounds of flowers like yours. Big (albeit loosely structured) flowers with tons of trichomes. In fact, pound for pound, it produced more quality, full melt bubble hash than any other plant in my 25 years of growing and extracting. Again, it produced feminized and possibly "hermaphrodized" seeds. Now, Since LED lights have finally become adaptable for growing indoors, I started a tent crop from my best "straight" strains, allowing me to avoid bugs, save on nutrients and avoid pollination from neighbors (everyone grows here, including plenty who have no clue what they are doing) without a huge electric bill and the temperature issues that I experienced with HID and HPS lights. So, I am going to let the hermies rule outdoors, cross pollinating with several strains from my seed bank while I grow top shelf nugs inside. I also wish to experiment with creating polyploid plants using a mutagen, like the Columbians did in the 1970s-1980s with "gold" strains. I am a scientist at heart, so this should be fun!
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Dude colchines been done and rarely is it worth it focus on selections not mutagenic compounds
 
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craighogrow

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Yeah, an old school,60-year-old grower like me, been focusing on cross pollination, cloning and even grafting since I was 15-years-old and got kicked out of my Biology class and suspended for growing the Devil's lettuce in my plot of the vegetable garden dough! I should have at least planted on someone else's plot! I learned a lot besides plausible deniability since then, and I still have strains from the early eighties that I have perpetuated past the millennium, like old school, red hair (Mexican) sensemilla, Columbian (Lumbo) and Chocolate Thai, my favorite of the three. Still, nothing ever has come close to the taste, look, smell of Columbian Gold. It was usually a bag of mostly shake and a few seeds, but it actually looked like gold dust when you let it sparkle in the sun. It was not of this planet, and it was not just genetics, either. It was; however super potent and borderline hallucinogenic. For me, It's all about personal exploration, experimentation, trial-and-error, whether it's been done or not. Different variables, different strains, different nutes, lights, extraction methods, etc. I just did a run with Strive nutrients with a few additives throughout the cycles on my first indoor crop in years. Finally, a Sativa that was better than any I have been able to find in a dispensary or grow in the back yard.
conor c said:
Dude colchines been done and rarely is it worth it focus on selections not mutagenic compounds
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conor c

conor c

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craighogrow said:
Yeah, an old school,60-year-old grower like me, been focusing on cross pollination, cloning and even grafting since I was 15-years-old and got kicked out of my Biology class and suspended for growing the Devil's lettuce in my plot of the vegetable garden dough! I should have at least planted on someone else's plot! I learned a lot besides plausible deniability since then, and I still have strains from the early eighties that I have perpetuated past the millennium, like old school, red hair (Mexican) sensemilla, Columbian (Lumbo) and Chocolate Thai, my favorite of the three. Still, nothing ever has come close to the taste, look, smell of Columbian Gold. It was usually a bag of mostly shake and a few seeds, but it actually looked like gold dust when you let it sparkle in the sun. It was not of this planet, and it was not just genetics, either. It was; however super potent and borderline hallucinogenic. For me, It's all about personal exploration, experimentation, trial-and-error, whether it's been done or not. Different variables, different strains, different nutes, lights, extraction methods, etc. I just did a run with Strive nutrients with a few additives throughout the cycles on my first indoor crop in years. Finally, a Sativa that was better than any I have been able to find in a dispensary or grow in the back yard.
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Good effects=good selection its really just from that i dont think many if any lines were improved using colchine the only valid use is for making triploids which aren't much use for breeding there only good for flower because of sterility issues im sure the Acapulco gold your talking of was killer but thats down to the people who worked and selected that line for possibly hundreds of years or more to make it so good imo respect should be going to them
 
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