Is this a Hermie?

I spotted this on one of my Odyssey plants five days from harvest. I've never had a hermie problem before, but this sure looks like it to me. Can anyone offer a second opinion?

As soon as I saw this I put a bag over the branch, cut it down, and took it out of the room. Strange thing is that to be on the safe side I sprayed these plants with Reverse at the beginning of the 12/12 cycle. I guess that's no guarantee. I've got a bunch of other plants that are three weeks into bloom in the same room so I hope no pollen was released.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

dosen`t look like one to me,But i could be wrong. awhile back a hade a few plants that hade what looks like the same kind of growth comming from the top colas and it was just regular growth. , was their a sack around the "banana" beafore it came out? is this the only bud on the plANT WITH THIS? But in my opinion just to be sure i would carefully inspect your entire crop just to be sure.

Yes, it was the only plant with this kind of growth, which is another reason I think it could be a hermie. I looked over the whole crop and couldn't find anything else like it. Here's another photo from a different angle. It's hard to tell the difference between a sack around the banana and a (hopefully) false seed pod.

Looks Hermie to me....

hermie. kill it.

hermi... pick off those pollin sacs.......

Bummer. This was just one bud with several pollen sacks on it. I can't imagine it had been like this for more than a few days before I spotted it. I cut it down, but do you think my other flowering plants are toast?

Put another way, if you get a hermie is it likely your crop will be heavily seeded?

Anyone.....

It would be great to hear from people that have had this problem themselves. I guess I'll post again after harvest with what I found.

I have suffered with this problem when using bagseed.

As long as when you either plucked the bananas or removed the cola you were carefull not to open the nanas then you should be good.

I took the plants out of the flowering room plucked the NANAs using tweezers, i made sure to get behind the male NANA so as not to split it open, then put them back into the flowering room.



J

I started my grow with 12 seeds, a strain I made, out of 12- 8 Hermies, 3 males, 1 female. Some Hermies didnt show their face until week 5-6 of bloom, it sucks but gotta chop them asap. The first three were stressed- left light on all dark cycle w/no fan or water. They recovered fast but one week later I noticed a couple open male flowers hiding under buds, at this point all of my flower room was pollinated and hundreds of seeds in all plants but didnt hurt quality buzz. Now with that strain I keep a close eye, because even the 100% female and all clones still have a hidden hermie gene that could show its face with any, any stress!

Update: I harvested, dried and am now curing the buds and it looks like everything is OK! I haven't found any seeds in any of the plants, not even the one that went hermie. I was really concerned about that one because when I manicured it it looked and felt a little different than the other plants - hard to describe - but it felt seeded and there weren't as many red hairs on it. I put it off to the side during drying but couldn't find any seeds and it was just as loaded with trichomes as all the other buds when I checked it out under the microscope.

^Sometimes, you get lucky, and the pollen produced from hermies, isn't fertile. Sounds like you got lucky, in that respect, or just happened to remove the sacs/bananas before they released anything. I've went through that myself, once, and was surprised to not find any seeds, athough bananas were everywhere, before I caught 'em. If they had been fertile, I would've been screwed.lol


Congrats man, very cool that you didn't get pollinated.