hermie??

yep, yep it can

luvvin growin said:

Not usually the case,the pollen sacs dont ever open on some hermies,you have to dry it,look for the yellow balls and put them in a bag and refridgerate til you're ready to pollenate

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there aren't any yellow balles right now. The balls look the same color as the rest of the 'flower'.

would it be better to just cut off the top that went hermie at the base, or to cut all the flowers and cola off the top and leave the top/branch with the leaves?

chuckb said:

would it be better to just cut off the top that went hermie at the base, or to cut all the flowers and cola off the top and leave the top/branch with the leaves?

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Im not sure if a branch can go Hermie...
But it seems like its is possible and thatcould work, or just recuce the amount of seeds.
Not sure so idk
Good luck

you better get rid of that hermie before he spooges all over your other plants!

<stealthgrowing> said:

you better get rid of that hermie before he spooges all over your other plants!

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its his only plant

the pollen sacs turn yellow after they dry

chuckb said:

here's a couple more pics. Why aren't there any pollen sacks hanging at the internodes?? The sacks are only in the buds.

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well its a hermie but the top looks completly male

for thew last time

ITS NOT A HERMIE DAMMM!!!!!

from the pics u posted all i see is a couple of swollen calx, don't u guys know the plant ur growing. if it was a true hermie u would have seeds all over the whole grow. cuz one little upside down flower and a million pollen float out int ther pussy hairs.

BUT UR SAFE IT'S NOT A FUCKIN HERMIE!!!!

nellyatcha said:

well its a hermie but the top looks completly male

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cuz it's not a hermie it's a light poisoned female. the pollen on the plant has no male chromsome, but a hermie will produce males also.

RODELIZATION: SOMA'S WAY TO FEMALE SEEDS

Here’s an easy, environmentally friendly method for breeding feminized seeds.

by SOMA
Wed, Jul 30, 2003 12:00 am
more: grow articles, soma, breeding, seed company, strains


Story by Soma

Creating feminized cannabis seeds is an art. Just like art, there are a few different methods of application. I have written about some of my different methods of making seeds in previous HIGH TIMES articles. I have used gibberellic acid, pH stress, light stress, and fertilizer stress to force my female plants to make seeds. All of these methods are harsh on the plants, and some, like the gibberellic acid, are not organic. In my search for cleaner, more earth-friendly ways of working with the cannabis plant, I have found a new way to make feminized seeds. Feminized seeds occur as a result of stress, rather than genetics. All cannabis plants can and will make male flowers under stress. Certain strains like a higher pH, some a lower one. Some like a lot of food, some like much less. There is quite a lot of variety in marijuana genetics, and you can’t treat every plant the same way.

It takes many harvests before you really get to know a particular strain. Just like getting to know human friends, it takes time. I have grown the same strains for close to a decade, and am truly getting to know every nuance the different plants exhibit. I can recognize them from a distance. I must say that I get a lot of help from my friends, both in making seeds and in learning new and better ways of working with this sacred plant.

I named this new method "Rodelization," after a friend who helped me realize and make use of this way of creating female seeds. After growing crop after crop of the same plants in the same conditions, I noticed that if I flowered the plants 10-14 days longer than usual, they would develop male "bananas." A male banana is a very slight male flower on a female marijuana plant that is formed because of stress. Usually they do not let out any pollen early enough to make seeds, but they sometimes do. They are a built-in safety factor so that in case of severe conditions, the plant can make sure the species is furthered.

To me, a male banana is quite a beautiful thing. It has the potential of making all female seeds. Many growers out there have male-banana phobia. They see one and have heart palpitations, they want to cut down the entire crop, or at the very least take tweezers and pluck the little yellow emergency devices out. I call them "emergency devices" because they emerge at times of stress.

In the Rodelization method, the male banana is very valuable. After growing your female plants 10-14 days longer than usual, hang them up to dry, then carefully take them off the drying lines and inspect for bananas. Each and every banana should be removed, and placed in a small bag labeled very accurately. These sealed bags can be placed in the fridge for one or two months and still remain potent.

For the next phase, you need to have a separate crop that’s already 2 1/2 weeks into flowering. Take your sealed bags of pollen out of the fridge, and proceed to impregnate your new crop of females. To do this, you must first match the female plant and the pollen from the same strain in the previous crop. Shut all the fans in the growroom down. Then take a very fine paintbrush, dip it in the bag of pollen, and paint it on the female flower. Do this to each different strain you have growing together. I have done it with up to 10 different kinds in the same room with great success.

I use the lower flowers to make seeds, leaving the top colas seedless for smoking. This method takes time (two crops), but is completely organic, and lets you have great-quality smoke at the same time you make your female seeds. If you’re one of those growers who’s never grown seeds for fear of not having something good to smoke, you will love this method.

You can also use this pollen to make new female crosses by cross-pollinating. The older females with the male bananas can be brought into the room with the younger, unpollinated females after they are three weeks into flowering. Turn all of the circulation fans on high, and the little bits of pollen will proceed to make it around the room. Do this for several days. Six to seven weeks later, you will have ripe 100% feminized seeds; not nearly as many as a male plant would make, but enough to start over somewhere else with the same genetics.

As a farmer who has been forced to move his genetics far away from where they started, I know very well the value of seeds. My friend Adam from ThSeeds in Amsterdam has a motto that I love to borrow these days: Drop seeds not bombs.

Good info ^

yeah, i wanna get feminized seeds for my next grow

Since sex is the topic...
What do you think this plant is....i just noticed today some balls and i wanna get rid of it if its male.... please help

Yup thats a male 100%. If you are not breeding I would put a garbage bag over it and take it out to make sure non of those pollen sacks accidentally open in your room.

Closet Grow (BuD) said:

yeah, i wanna get feminized seeds for my next grow

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Im not an expert on feminized but I got some free ones and bought a 10 pack of them once and out of the females and the one free one they all turned out to hermie. Feminized plants have the hermaphrodite gene once they have been stressed to the point where they produce feminized seeds. Do a bit mroe research cause Ive head a lot of people say that feminized hermies a lot. IMO