DNA Genetics Sharksbreath - Can you explain this? a hermie question

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stubbornstoner013

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"She's an excellent plant to breed with as she is very stable and has proven herself as the mother of the Martian Mean Green" they claim in the description.

So why are there pollen sacs popping out all over your buds?! She is hermieing hardcore, even see a seed or two popping out of calyxes now finishing week 9

I got the seed for free w/ an order from the Attitude, so I'm not too super bummed over the ordeal but you cannot help but be dismayed to see such hard work and promise take such a drastic turn south so near to the end

Got two questions though:

1.)What causes a plant to hermie?? (obviously i know genetics is often the main factor, but stress can cause it too right?(she never went through any major stress, to my knowledge at least(nothing visible)))

which leads to the second question pertaining to the ongoing viability of this particular phenotype

2.) Chances are, since this is supposed to be a "very stable" strain, that this particualr bean just didn't have the right stuff and thus all clones will be trying to mate w/ themselves in the end?? or does the second generation deserve a second chance? not into wasting time and space growin hermie's​
 
bajafox

bajafox

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indoor or outdoor? lights? etc. not enough info, could have been pollen in the air that got it, did you ever see male flowers?
 
Unnk

Unnk

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i have 2 diff phenotypes of breath out of a 6 pack that have been in my room for 8 grows never had a problem
 
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stubbornstoner013

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bajafox said:
indoor or outdoor? lights? etc. not enough info, could have been pollen in the air that got it, did you ever see male flowers?
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indoor, under hps. and yes pollen sacs=male flowers, they're emering quite numerously

only major stress possible she coulda experience, to my knowledge, is that i sprayed Azamax, a spider mite spray, in high temps in my garage...which happened a couple times...but she was never visibly angry about the sprays tho
 
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stubbornstoner013

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Unnk said:
i have 2 diff phenotypes of breath out of a 6 pack that have been in my room for 8 grows never had a problem
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looking good. are you in soil/soilless? she's described as a 'heavy feeder'. has that been your experience w/ her? i never had any major deficiencies but i swear i always felt like she was hungry
 
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stubbornstoner013

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maybe i'm crazy but i believe don n aaron when they claim she is very stable, thats why i'm just trying to figure out if its possible i got a bad bean, or if it was just this particular plant that went awry
 
bajafox

bajafox

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stubbornstoner013 said:
looking good. are you in soil/soilless? she's described as a 'heavy feeder'. has that been your experience w/ her? i never had any major deficiencies but i swear i always felt like she was hungry
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Same here, all my other plants (4) were watered every 3 to 4 days, it seemed like the SB wanted to feed every 2 days, her leave's were always droopy

Here's mine a few days ago, I vegged her for 8 weeks, she's in a 2 - 2.5 gallon pot
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Total Head

Total Head

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my sb is some kind of mutant. the first 5 sets of leaves had only 3 fingers, and these leaves got really wide and leathery and weird. she took off after that but i don't think her root system is all that impressive since she takes twice as long to dry after watering as the other strains in there. i'm nearly 3 weeks into flowering and so far so good, but some of those older weird leaves look diseased. they're all spotted and necrotic and different shades of green and yellow but the ph is perfect. the rest of the leaves on the plant are fine and the other plants are fine. i got kind of a bum bean though but there's only so much you can whine about a free seed. plus i've yet to see the final results.
 
Unnk

Unnk

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i suggest grabbing a non fem pack and pheno hunt the lambsbread pheno is quite a potent pheno makes for some amazing headstash
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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stubbornstoner013 said:
why is everyone w/o an opinion?
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two reasons.

1.) no picture of your plant for us to compare

2.) nobody grows sharksbreath anyways, the strain and the seeds suck. I've got one growing now because it was an attitude freebie. It's the biggest plant it the garden that stretched the most with the most fluffy nugs. Week 7 day 2.

3.) the only reason your growing it is because it was free too.

Thankfully, most freebie seeds are nice. This one just sucks.
 
Unnk

Unnk

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researchkitty said:
two reasons.

1.) no picture of your plant for us to compare

2.) nobody grows sharksbreath anyways, the strain and the seeds suck. I've got one growing now because it was an attitude freebie. It's the biggest plant it the garden that stretched the most with the most fluffy nugs. Week 7 day 2.

3.) the only reason your growing it is because it was free too.

Thankfully, most freebie seeds are nice. This one just sucks.
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you base your idea off one seed? i grew a whole pack and got some the best shit around ANY good breeder there will be a pheno search and 2 FEM SEEDS ARE A JOKE you get 1/2 the traits you need think about it this way 10/10 10 from male 10 from the female you take the male out the equation your loosing hybrid vigor pest resistance thats why i say grow a reg pack and buck up to word homie i got pics to prove
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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Unnk said:
you base your idea off one seed? i grew a whole pack and got some the best shit around ANY good breeder there will be a pheno search and 2 FEM SEEDS ARE A JOKE you get 1/2 the traits you need think about it this way 10/10 10 from male 10 from the female you take the male out the equation your loosing hybrid vigor pest resistance thats why i say grow a reg pack and buck up to word homie i got pics to prove
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Hermies dont grow from using feminized seeds. You get twice the many hermies but you get twice the plants. Duh! :) Hit up the search box if you dont believe me......

I know its unfair to base it on one seed. I just dont see people saying "Hey you got any of that Sharksbreath? The shits so bomb!". Popularity aside, with what I saw from my one seed, the bud structure, the plants abilities, I dont see a reason to change to an inferior product.

Every grower says his weed is the best shit around. Some of us then improve. :)
 
ganjaluvr

ganjaluvr

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researchkitty said:
Hermies dont grow from using feminized seeds. You get twice the many hermies but you get twice the plants. Duh! :) Hit up the search box if you dont believe me......

I know its unfair to base it on one seed. I just dont see people saying "Hey you got any of that Sharksbreath? The shits so bomb!". Popularity aside, with what I saw from my one seed, the bud structure, the plants abilities, I dont see a reason to change to an inferior product.

Every grower says his weed is the best shit around. Some of us then improve. :)
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You said it before I could.

Nicely put Kitty. ;)

peace.
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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I forgot the most important thing. To the OP: Keep the hermie. Flower it an extra week and then harvest the seeds. Your seeds are now feminized seeds. Forcing hermies of females is how fem seeds are made by commercial seed companies. Your just doing it naturally instead of forcing one to a hermie. ANd before some num nuts chimes in here, a hermied fem doesnt make hermie prone seeds. Thats how ALL feminized seeds are made! :) Congrats on the free 300 or 400 seeds you'll pluck from the plant. Store them for a month in a dark cool place and then they are good to germinate.
 
Unnk

Unnk

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not saying its the best around im saying the best ive had besides a jack herer cut i got from my bud everyones got opinions mate i just think using a hermie = the easy route thats why i like reg's from dna and now im going with TGA gear and might i say i love it and i never said anything bout hermies in my original post just saying F2 = more unstable with the traits then a F1 and sharksbreath reg's are true f1's
 
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