Hermi? Swollen calyx? What are these green pods?

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

I was taking some new pics and I found something that's scaring the shit out of me. It looks like a pollen sack or a swollen calyx but I can't tell. I pulled the little ball and dissected it. It contains several smaller pods that are banana shaped. In the buds of the main colas there are small clusters of yellow/green pods that don't have any hairs. They look eerily similar to the contents of the suspected "pollen sack". Im not sure if they are just young calyxes or I have a hermi.

day 27 since changing to 12/12

This is the bottom most flower that has the weird pollen sack

look closely and you can see the green hairless pods clustered within the buds.

close-up

racerboy71 · Feb 16, 2014

the first pix definitely looks like a banana to me, i don't see any in the other two pix though..

that plant is eff'ing gorgeous though, love the colors and frosty as hell..

i'd wait till someone else chimes in to make sure though.. you can continue to grow it and pick off any and all nuts as you find them.. i'd be super sad to have to cut that plant down personally as she's a beaut..

stonedest · Feb 16, 2014

Yep that first one looks like a big old male flower that hasn't opened yet, try to get rid of it carefully. The other ones in the buds look like smaller male flower that have already opened.

Sorry, I had a hermie in my batch I killed about 6 weeks in, got a few seeds in the others, but not too bad. Usually it's caused by stress, but yours look pretty healthy from these shots. Maybe something happened a while ago?

charface · Feb 16, 2014

Those could be nanners on the others
but its hard to tell with all that color.
Is there a blue light going or is that natural. It is beautiful

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

thanks, not bad for a first grow. If it helps anyone, the "ball" did not have the typical extension from the node, it was tightly against it, similar to a calyx.

check the close up shot really good, there are two or three lighter green little formations near the top.

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

The color is completely natural, the iPhone flash might add some coolness to the lighting but definitely no blue lights.

lushgreen · Feb 16, 2014

congratulations, it's a gay.

charface · Feb 16, 2014

nrc.nerdzo said:
The color is completely natural, the iPhone flash might add some coolness to the lighting but definitely no blue lights.

they have the shape of nanners for sure
I see the seam.
Imo they are

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

What exactly is a nanner and what are the consequences?

charface · Feb 16, 2014

male flowers in the early stage.
Pluck them off gently before they make pollen or they can fertilize the bud
and make seed.

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

So if I can remove them and keep a close eye, there is still hope? What about the ones deep within the buds?

racerboy71 · Feb 16, 2014

nrc.nerdzo said:
So if I can remove them and keep a close eye, there is still hope? What about the ones deep within the buds?

you can try and grab them with tweezers.. sometimes a plant will throw one or two early on, and that'l be it, other times, you're not so lucky..

charface · Feb 16, 2014

You will see them pop out and can Take tweezers and a sharp razor to them.
Mist the area with water if any powder
comes out but I doubt it will and if it does
it will probably not be viable.

Just get rid of them asap as they show.
Enjoy your bud

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

racerboy71 · Feb 16, 2014

is this the only plant you've got going??
if it is, i'd not sweat it too much, you'll only get buds with seeds, no biggy if it's just for your head... if you have other plants, then more then likely, depending on how much pollen gets dropped, the entire crop could have seeds..
seeded bud's not bad, just has seeds is all..

charface · Feb 16, 2014

charface said:
You will see them pop out and can Take tweezers and a sharp razor to them.
Mist the area with water if any powder
comes out but I doubt it will and if it does
it will probably not be viable.

Just get rid of them asap as they show.
Enjoy your bud.

Ps dont go digging for the ones you
think you see. You doun want wounds
oozing moisture inside buds.
Invites mold

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

Okay, thanks for the diagnosis. This is indeed my one and only plant. It's so hard to see 4 months of hard work potentially get spoiled. I have meticulously gone through and removed what I can find but the little bastards are very well hidden behind all the buds. I noticed that the naners are concentrated at the tops. There were only 2 sacks down low and about 50 little naners within the 4 main colas.

Since there are more in the top buds, do you think it could be some temperature stress that caused this? I have (16) 23 watt CFLs that make it tough to have even temperatures across the plant. Before I added a new fan, temps were often 80-84 at the tops and 68-70 at the bottom.

PetFlora · Feb 16, 2014

All I see is calyxes fattening up. That's the money

If you had pollinated, the calyxes would be the seed pods

charface · Feb 16, 2014

yeah dude I dont see fifty
You are seeing caylx dont cut those.
Remember we were talking about
the two green things you pointed out

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

nrc.nerdzo · Feb 16, 2014

don't worry yall, I know the difference. They are clearly distiguishiable by their grouping, lack of hairs, shape and yellow/green color. The photos only show a few but once I started to really inspect her, they were everywhere. Maybe 50 is a slight exaggeration.

charface · Feb 16, 2014

lol. I got scared

In nature plants don't live in plastic buckets but at my house they do or they get the f**k out!

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