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WeedWitchOR

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Hi all, been a while, summer went nuts on me.

Started season with 2 plants. One decided to be a male instead and was chopped. At time flowers on other were not obvious. Fast forward to harvest. I'm finding hundreds of seeds that are fully mature. If anything was harvested about a week early but we were getting hit by mold, so don't think we would have gotten mature seeds this fast if it had hermied. Plus never saw any sign of male flowers.

Could it have been pollinated on very immature flowers or is it something else? Fairly isolated so would not expect that level of pollination from wind/random male.

Thanks
 
WV: Jetson

WV: Jetson

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I had a plant that was male, which I thought was female at first. Once I saw flowers, I cut him down, saved a few branches and dusted a couple of buds on the girls. I felt pretty good I caught him quick. Fast forward to harvest and I found seeds all over the place. Not too many; one here and one there. Except for the dusted branches - they were loaded w/seeds. My lesson is that males ripen quicker than I would have thought and that pollen is very fine. I would bet pollen was flying when I cut him down and just didn't see it.
 
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bf80255

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WeedWitchOR said:
Hi all, been a while, summer went nuts on me.

Started season with 2 plants. One decided to be a male instead and was chopped. At time flowers on other were not obvious. Fast forward to harvest. I'm finding hundreds of seeds that are fully mature. If anything was harvested about a week early but we were getting hit by mold, so don't think we would have gotten mature seeds this fast if it had hermied. Plus never saw any sign of male flowers.

Could it have been pollinated on very immature flowers or is it something else? Fairly isolated so would not expect that level of pollination from wind/random male.

Thanks
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as soon as the females put out pistils they can start making seeds. the fact that you say they are fully mature is probably an indication that yes it was your male that did it. it takes about 3-5 weeks for seeds to develop so it wasnt recently
 
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WeedWitchOR

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Least I know "who's yo daddy" then :) it's not what I would call loaded and they were all at bottom of buds. Guess I had more pistils than I thought. Definitely viable since I found several sprouting where a bud got particularly wet.

Thanks
 
CatSpeaker

CatSpeaker

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I wouldn't bet on hermie or your male getting lucky.
Based on your username you're on Oregon , like me.
I had a bag seed girl this summer that I pollinated.
The male was segregated before any girl showed pistils.
I still ended up with seeds on sites other than I had pollinated and far more developed.
With legalization here I think there is a LOT of weed being grown in backyards.
More weed, more possibility of more males, more pollen.
 
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WeedWitchOR

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Yep. Out in foothills around Forest Grove. Not many people around where I am though. Pollinization seems a little too uniform for wind/local male.
 
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