I found SEEDS!! Help!

dokebi

dokebi

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Gaia's.Grower said:
breeders use all kinds of cheap tricks to feminize seeds. If these seeds where produced from "stress induced" hermies it is likely the offspring will be more likely to hermie under similar conditions (essentially the feminized seeds, although directly selected for the lack of a y chromosome, have been indirectly selected to hermie under whatever stress condition the breeder used.)

The rule of thumb to avoid hermies is stability and consistency. Your seeds should be fine. More likely to make male flowers under similar stress conditions? definitely. But a complete waste? not at all. Something that can be appreciated about your seed stock is that as long as they came from genetics that were stabilize (not an F1 or random cross, but actually bred for uniformity) your seeds should be slightly more uniform than the original stock. Also, as long as they were feminized before, all of your seeds should be females as well.

If you need the crop don't hesitate to flower those clones, but be sure your grow room is stable and consistent (definitely try to figure out various potential sources of stress on the previous crop and try to minimize those potentials). For the future, look for better genetics that have been bred by long term breeders.

Anybody can get pollen mixed in with females then call themselves a breeder in order to make money by selling seeds or get caught up in the excitement of new crosses; but, its the guys that truly love the plant and that dedicate themselves day in and day out that are offering consistently good seed stock and uniform stable genetics.

Soma for example has sometimes allows plants to flower past peak ripeness and noticed that most genetics will produce sparse male flowers in the twilight of flowering life, as if in a last ditch effort to pass genetic material on to the next generation. This method does provide less pollen for potential crosses than other methods of male flower induction, but it does not genetically predisposition the daughter generation to have stress induced male flowers. Extra work, time, and patience are all required on the part of the breeder to produce a quality product, especially feminized seeds.

In today's market it is also required of the grower to put forth the extra work, time, and patience to find the breeders who really care.
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Do you have a recommendation to a site or a breeder?
 
Gaia's.Grower

Gaia's.Grower

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dr. green thumb in canada is a bit pricey but I have heard over and over that people have had great success with his genetics specifically with lack of hermies in strains that are know to hermie (chem dawg, sour diesel lines, etc.) and uniformity of seeds.

Other than that, most amsterdam seed banks that have been around for awhile you can get their seeds from hemp depot (I got some feminized whiteberry from paradise seeds they were great. I had no hermies at all and the 5 seeds grew very uniformly. Also, I got some feminized Bubba 76 from emrald triangle seeds.

I've been looking into this recently and like I mentioned before Dr. greenthumb seems to be where its at. I've heard beyond incredible stuff about his chem dawg specifically so that is what I am going after next
 
dokebi

dokebi

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Is this a hermie or just a infected female plant?

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Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Hermie plants could be caused by several of the following: Stress(light, humidity, temperature), Nutrition(excess amount of P, K) and or Genetics.

If one hermie plant is found it would infect all others in the room or in the house causing it to produce seeds as well as flower but will not turn other female plants to become hermies.

I'm confused right now because all my plants look the same with little balls hanging from all the plants.
 
U

ULMResearch

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Then they are all hermies or male. If they are ALL hermies then you need to verify your genetics. If the genetics are reliable then you need to check for light leaks or other factors that can induce them to develop pollen sacs.
 
dokebi

dokebi

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ULMResearch said:
Then they are all hermies or male. If they are ALL hermies then you need to verify your genetics. If the genetics are reliable then you need to check for light leaks or other factors that can induce them to develop pollen sacs.
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This is my second harvest from the same Mother Plant. I added two kush plants to try them out and this is what happened. I'm assuming that one or both of the kush plants were genetically hermies to start with and in turn infecting my whole vegetation. But only thing that stops me from coming to this conclusion is that they all have balls. I want to cry
 
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ULMResearch

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A female next to a hermie won't catch the hermie 'disease'. It's not contagious. The only way a plant can have hairs and balls is to be a hermie itself, or become one due to environmental conditions. A hermie next to a female will seed the female, but won't change its sex..
 
ROBSTERB

ROBSTERB

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not a very clear pick but them arnt balls that is normal on a female plant also your other picture above have no signs of balls either.
 
U

ULMResearch

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If it has a hair coming out of it then it's not a pollen sac. They are very distinct. They will start to look like a watermelon, usually on a tiny stalk. Most often they come in clumps. You can google about a zillion images of preflowers and flowers and find out much quicker than taking pics of every node and posting it here.
 
dokebi

dokebi

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thanks for your inputs. I'm done with flowering and I'm just uncertain about going forward. I made some clones for my next harvest but can't decide if I have to kill all of them or not.
 
f1bud

f1bud

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sory to here ya bad news man !! but eh like one or two peeps av sed hermie weed is so so strong in my own personal experience, just like u i found seed and lots of them and was well gutted as it shud of bin full of resin rarther than seeds,, i binned the seeds but like a sed the weed was one of the strongest i ever smoked if not the strongest i was trippin off the stuff so all aint lost by any means.
just because ur plants stressed dont mean u shud now b stressed allso, to much stress will kill ya man so av a joint av ya weed wen dry n all ya problems will disapate !!!! peace out man !!!!!
 
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