When can the males pollinate the females?

Hello, I jut signed up coz i needed to find out jus one thing..

Anyway ive got 6 weed plants growing up on my balcony and have already determined that 4 of them are females.. Im still not sure about the other two.
The other two seem to hav a little pod type thing but it was too small to tell.. i thought that i shud jus giv it a chance and see if hairs come out .
how long into flowering will the males effect your females? I dont want to leave it too late just to see if there females..

thanks

anyone?? PLEASE

once you see sacs forming, once they open they will pollinate your females.

If these are the same strain then the remaining plants are likely female, as males show first.
If not, just keep a close eye on that/those ball(s) . . . if they multiply and prove male, I'd remove them as soon as I was certain.

thank you people

so the pods multply b4 they change the girls?

you will see sacs ( balls ) forming on males, once yo usee this ripp them out and away from females. If you wait too long the sacs might open up and will pollinate your females and turn them hermi.

MDgrow said:

you will see sacs . . . sacs might open up and will pollinate your females and turn them hermi.

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Never heard that before???
You don't want your girls pollinated so the energies will stay in bud formation and not move into seed production.

yes i have heard that but just didnt kno how soon they do it...

thank you tho

if a male pollinates a female, it will turn the female hermi.... youve never heard that?

the hermi will still produce bud, but also seeds in return.

MDgrow said:

if a male pollinates a female, it will turn the female hermi.... youve never heard that?

the hermi will still produce bud, but also seeds in return.

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This is just not correct, IMO.

If a male pollinates a female, you get a pollinated female and thus, seeds.
If a hermie pollinates a female, then those seeds would have that gene and likely it's seeds would produce hermies, if grown long enough.

Neither will turn a plant hermie. Perhaps it's possible, but it's certainly not the norm.
If you still think you're right, please cite your source? I'd be interested in reading that opinion.

MrFishy is indeed correct,

(for all those less informed)

a male pollinating a female doesnt cause a hermie, a hermaphrodyte is an organism that develops both male and female reporductive organs.. which is not the case here.

Simply, when a male pollinates your precious fems, the plant slows/ceases bud growth and begins investing energy into seed production (all these plants want is to have kids, not great big stinky buds)

If you grow sinsemilla(?) females (which u should be doing, unless you want seeds) they continue to produce beautiful, stickier, bigger buds in an attempt to capture any male pollen that might pass by.. thats why sinsemilla fems have such BIG BUDS!!!



To the original poster.. when you see the pods/balls froming (THEY ARE QUITE DISTINCT FROM FEMALE HAIRS) it takes atleast a week for them to open up and start dropping pollen

SO.. you can either pitch the males when you see the balls/pods or attempt to collect a little bit of pollen from them.. 'videoman40' has a great thread on collecting pollen but the pictures will no longer work

When you start to see balls on the males...YES I SAID BALLS...BALLS...BALLS...BALLS!.....You want to try and get them away from you're females so the pollen will not hurt your ladies.

Im not saying that a hermi pollinates it, Im saying that if a male pollinated a female, it then becomes a herm.

MD that is incorrect. female will only produce seeds when pollenated by male. not become hermie. by that point his plants would already have the hermie trait pollenation wouldnt change sex of his females

MDgrow said:

if a male pollinates a female, it will turn the female hermi.... youve never heard that?

the hermi will still produce bud, but also seeds in return.

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A male won't turn a female hermi. It just makes the female produce seeds.