one freakin seed.

i found a single seed on a plant in my grow tent and freaked out. i went over every single node of every plant and there are no pollen sacs and no other seeds. how does this happen?

id like to know also. i had the same thing happen on the last plant i cut down. just 1 big seed. i got it in soil now

it pollinates itself towards the last weeks.

doesnt it need more then the last weeks to grow a nice healthy seed?

Thats the stupidist shit I have ever heard man.@ least I got a smile tonite.Pollen can be brought in on clothing and ya may have had a herm.Shit just happens.Every time I find a lucky seed like that they usually herm.sux.Found one in a lb of grape ape the other day but I'm afraid to plant it cause it may be a tranny.

Yeh,there usually premature...If you got 1 viable seed,and the plants were all the same age in flower,then you just probably had a male claw pop out,during flower...I pollinated my superlemon haze with a claw from a m.kush bud(8weeks in),the slh was only in the 3rd week of flower,so the seeds(4) were able to mature right...

Plants can sometimes do what they call "selfing." Poke around in the breeder's threads, over in the advanced growing section. (I'll dig up a link in a minute...)

They'll produce a seed or two, probably down at the bottom of a branch rather than IN one of the nugs. Not always the case, I guess, but it was the case on the ones I've seen with my own eyes.

Technically, I guess they're hermies, but there's no male flowers involved, nothing dropping pollen...they're just...selfed. These seeds are guaranteed females, copies of the plant they came from. So they're essentially feminized; but rather than the usual deal of pollinating a plant with itself, after having forced it to hermie, which will produce seeds that will tend to grow hermie prone plants...these have no nasty tendency to hermie. But don't take it from me, check out the experts over at the breeder's paradise forum!

I know it sounds crazy if you've never seen it, but I am growing some plants right now from seeds I got at a trim. I got 25 seeds from 5 strains: AK, Blueberry, Cheese, Island Sweet Skunk, Skunk #1. They got all mixed up, so I don't know what's what...oh well, I'll just have to taste test em when the test run flowers. Every seed was in the same spot, no matter what strain: near the bottom of the plant, right at the bottom of a branch. I planted 20 5-6 weeks ago. 16 survived (they'll be kept for moms and clones will be grown out) and they're all girls...

Any experienced breeders care to weigh in on this? Back me up yall. Or prove me wrong, whichever...

I agree, seems self seeded, and just the plant's natural way of trying to procreate since it knows it is close to the end.

Nubby Tubbs said:

i found a single seed on a plant in my grow tent and freaked out. i went over every single node of every plant and there are no pollen sacs and no other seeds. how does this happen?

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Sometimes a male banana will grow within a bud itself, sometimes being small enough to never see it when looking right at the bud, but it can and will pollinate at least whatever calyx it touches. Sometimes you will see a tiny bit of yellow on a bud. That is when a banana formed in the bud and grew large enough that at least the tip was at or very near the surface of the bud and when it released it's pollen at least a small amount made it outside of the bud.

So my "selfed" beans are just as likely to produce hermie plants as any old feminized whatnot? I haven't grown feminized stuff, but I understand they are prone to herm...

Thanks for stepping in to help, BT.

sgt d said:

So my "selfed" beans are just as likely to produce hermie plants as any old feminized whatnot? I haven't grown feminized stuff, but I understand they are prone to herm...

Thanks for stepping in to help, BT.

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When it comes from a true hermie it will be more unstable, more likely to hermie, than a feminized seed, but feminized seeds, depending on what method was used to make them, are in most cases at least somewhat prone to turning hermie.

If someone, professional breeder or not, wants to make stable feminized seeds, there is a way. Ideally, you want to start with a true female mother, who has been proven not to express the hermaphrodite trait under stressful conditions. This is a fairly time-intensive task, however the process itself is fairly simple.

To find a suitable mother, the candidate mother plants need to go through a “boot camp” to identify the ones who will not turn hermie under stress. While this step can technically be skipped, if the time and effort is taken to do this you can ensure that the seeds produced from your efforts are the very best females without the risk of losing a crop to a “raping” hermie.

Basically, the candidate plants are put under a controlled stress regime to identify plants with the hermaphrodite trait. This can be done with female candidates that have completed the vegative cycle and are ready to be flowered by using the following light schedule:

1) The lights are turned on 12/12 for 10 days
2) Lights are turned on 24 hours
3) 12/12 again for 5 days
4) Lights are turned on 24 hours
5) 12/12 again for a few weeks

At the end of this light cycle, plants need to be closely inspected to look for the presence of plants with both male and female flowers. These are then discarded. Any remaining females can be considered to not have the hermie trait, and are suitable for the next step.

I don't know if few professional breeders who make feminized seeds bother to try to find the 'right' female plants to use or if they just don't have any that are 'right' so they go with what they have but most professional breeders feminized seeds are at least somewhere from being somewhat likely to turn to being fairly likely to turn. A seed from a true hermie is rather likely to turn.

Or you can use Colloidal Silver and they come out sweet every time.My girls will not herm though so do a test.I have been selecting mothers for years and I only keep the best.

If you have done your research you will find that Cannabis was originally a hermie species of plant,Alot of breeding by people over time was neccesary just to obtain a pure male of the genus.The pure females came even later.To this day in Northern China the wild Cannabis is Still a hermie strain.Ive done tons of research on Cannabis in the day because I was investing in a test to determine sex of a seedling by merely crushing a leaf and three drop test similar to a PH kit.The whole thing ended up costing me 6 grand in trials but I wrote it off.The end product would have been to expensive for the average grower to buy.

theres a chance it was just a bit of "rouge pollen" got into your garden somehow. Like someone already said, pollen can get in on your clothes, on your pets and even through the air. This is why there are rules most professional growers follow like don't constantly open the door to the garden, dont let pets in or near your garden and use a hepa filter or something to catch rouge pollen.

nature will find a way (Jurassic park)

So true Brother....