It varies with strain but 9 weeks is a " typical " window ... I had to cut at day 84 with some , 68 with something else .... And 13 weeks with a Sativa ( spear buds ).
It was a sister plant of the one in question that turned hermaphrodite and got super seeded from 3 little bananas on an inside lower bud.
It's also a small space with a lot of air moving, so pollen could have gotten caught in a draft or anything probably.
if those were fem plants, you have a better than average chance that those are fem seeds, grow em out and keep an eye out for more nanners.
Happened to me. I planted those seeds (all fem), tormented (beyond my control) the new flowering plants for over a week....not one plant hermied, that disprove the theory that seeds from hermie mother are gonna hermie too. Got a good harvest from those seeds.
I believe they came from a hermaphrodite plant. No way to know for sure as they were found. But probably a quarter of the buds in a half had a few seeds each.
Some say that (not sure I agree) these self pollinated seeds produce "elites". I hope so because i just gave some 1988G13/Hashplant X Udub (Dank Zappa from Bodhi) to a local grower friend.
I agree. I'm not an OG, so I can't confirm, but I agree.
I had a Rare Dankness Scott’s OG fem herm on me, seeded all the plants in the tent a little bit. I have been sitting on those beans for a while, they were all fems. I should pop some. I keep thinking about it.
possibly, or the plant may have been stressed in a way you didn't even realize, sitting in a cold spot on the floor, maybe you kicked it while moving another plant, maybe the cat pee'd in that one. or maybe i'm full of shit...
Haha I don't know either man. I thought a lot about it since I harvested the one hermaphrodite. They all had spots off the floor for their pot, not overly crowded, light cycle was good, I was fairly careful moving them and watering them, and the plants never demonstrated any other stress. In fact they all 3 looked admirably healthy throughout to my untrained eye.
I'm pretty sure I got my "it's the genetics" mantra from you! Didn't you help me in the thread I made about the hermaphrodite plant?
Hey.
Thanks again for the help. What you've said in this thread and that one makes the most sense to me just logically. Granted, I'm basically a caveman when it comes to horticulture.A lot of the time, hermaphrodites are due to heavy inbreeding. Just like animals.
Growers try to get their seeds to only show a couple phenotypes. Great for commercial crops.
Not good for breeding at all.
Breeding you want variety, and choice. You can't cross the same seed too many times. Or you start getting hermaphrodites.
Unfortunately, it's just how it is. Imho.
Elites in terms of hybrid vigor...vigorous growth and above normal yield... when 2 unrelated healthy parents are crossed you created an F1 which comes with heterosis or commonly known as hybrid vigor. The problem with F1 is that it's not a stable phenotype. So, when you breed that pheno with another strain or even among brother x sister...the resulting phenotypes would be all over the place.
