Thoughts on this growth?

Don't know why the picture is flipped, but saw this weird growth near the middle of my plant. The rest is flowering normal, but are those seed sacks?

Hermie the german has paid you a visit?

I have no idea, I checked all other plants and saw no growths like that on any of them.

I agree with vostok, it is a hermie...

So thoughts or just destroy it?

It's a mighty nice plant.

We grow for bud, we smoke the flowers once dried, should you continue the hermie pollen is gonna make seeds in the folds of the bud, that will lower thc, you will smoke the bud, and any seeds in it will explode and frighten the fuck outta you, not a nice experience....put her down, and start again, this time way less stress ...sorry!

Try to pull the balls (male parts) off very carefully if you want some good buds

vostok said:

We grow for bud, we smoke the flowers once dried, should you continue the hermie pollen is gonna make seeds in the folds of the bud, that will lower thc, you will smoke the bud, and any seeds in it will explode and frighten the fuck outta you, not a nice experience....put her down, and start again, this time way less stress ...sorry!

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Eh no worries, I have 5 others growing that aren't hermies so lose and learn I guess.

EDIT :: Found another hermie which has been removed.

DAMN. All but three had pods on them. TWO indica plants left and one sativa out of 14 seeds.

So I've heard about stress and such can cause herming, I don't know where that could have happened. Always easy on temp, good soil, low nutrient / needed amount, easy on watering. Started under a t5 and switched to a 600HPS end of veg.

Thoughts as to avoid this next time? Or just that Reserva Privada has shyte seeds?

Should you grow out a male plant keep the pollen and breed your own stock from the babes you have, with each generation you should have less hermies but a 50/50 mix of males and females, in the old days we used to go to bud, 12x12 within 3-4 weeks of veg once the sex show, say 10 days, then back to veg again, but with these new strains I'm still afraid to do that ...as they herm so easily

There's a large contingency that say hermieing is not only caused by stress, but by genetics as well. It could be a predisposition and not something you could have controlled. I'd look to the seeds as the root of the problem, if all other factors were non factors. Shit luck, but at least you have three good ones!

@ Vos - Yeah, now that I work within the industry I am going with only trusted clones. I don't trust these seed companies anymore, with the high cost and lower ratio of F to M its just not worth it in my opinion. Plus I would then know the pheno's I am getting.

@ Truck - I am leaning more towards genetics on this one. The two sativa hybrids I lost today were covered in new seed sprouts a llllllllll over the plants. The one indica I lost today just had the one weird site on it as shown in the picture earlier. The dispensary said they would give me a new batch of seeds for free, but I am really not happy with Reserva Privada, loosing 11 of 14 seeds to either non-germination, death during sprouting, or the herm issue.

But as you both said I am happy to still have three plants left. At day 20 of flower I am guessing after checking thoroughly through the remaining and seeing no weird anomalies that I should be in the clear for happy ladies. Shit luck but I know every one else here has had the same happen to them at some point over and over haha. Good Growing!