Pollination Problem or Hermie???

[420BongRips]

A few weeks ago, I let a ready male sit in the grow room for a few hours then took it out so I can seed some of my crop, I know this isn't the best way to do it but I was being lazy. Anyway, as you can see here in the video, my sites are all just seed pods. Now if the male had pollinated this plant like this, why aren't the other ones that are right next to it seeding like crazy? I don't see any male parts on this plant either. :/

I will post some pics too

 

[420BongRips]

Few more pcs

 

[OldMedUser]

Not really sure what you're asking. You tossed a male in there for a bit and got random seeding and wonder why it's not all over the plants?

The seeds in your pics look at about the same stage mine are at right now but I carefully dusted a few lower buds on each of my four girls.

Clarity is needed.

 

[420BongRips]

Not really sure what you're asking. You tossed a male in there for a bit and got random seeding and wonder why it's not all over the plants?

The seeds in your pics look at about the same stage mine are at right now but I carefully dusted a few lower buds on each of my four girls.

Clarity is needed.

Sorry if I was unclear to anyone. I am just asking if this is normal seeding and I am wondering if the plant will eventually start growing more buds instead of seeding? And yes I just found it off that the other plants didn't seed up like this one.

 

[lio lacidem]

First off your right when you say thats not how to do it. Now after those plants are done you are going to have to clean entire room top to bottom or risk pollinating every crop after this. And also yes by doing it that way you will only get seeds where the pollen got lucky enough to hit another plant.

 

[OldMedUser]

Sorry if I was unclear to anyone. I am just asking if this is normal seeding and I am wondering if the plant will eventually start growing more buds instead of seeding? And yes I just found it off that the other plants didn't seed up like this one.

If a plant has lots of pollinated buds it switches off growing more flowers and directs it's energy into growing seeds. As too the other plant not getting seeded up much that's probably just the luck of the draw due to the random nature of your pollinating method.

I collect all my pollen in a room far away from my girls then dry it and store it in a vial until needed. Then I'll take a girl I want to pollinate out of the grow room, put a garbage bag over the whole plant except for the branch I want to pollinate. Then I just dip a Q-Tip into the pollen, tap off the excess and tapping it gently dust a few buds. Four or five marble sized buds will produce 20 - 30 seeds if not more. If there is more than one I want to pollinate like the four tied up in a screen in my grow room now I do it differently. I turn off any fans then carefully dust some buds on lower branches on all four. I do this just before or just after light's out so I can leave the fan off all night. Then I go down in the morning and spray a mist of water all over the area around the plants and the plants as well to de-activate any loose pollen. Then fire up the lights and fan.

Once a male shows you can just cut a couple branches off, stick them in a mug of water and let them flower out under a CFL or two in a box in a closet somewhere. Line the bottom of the box with tinfoil to collect the pollen, clean it well and store in a small jar or vial once dried well. I put the open vial in a sealed jar that has some desiccant in it to draw any moisture out for a week then seal the vial and store in a sealed jar until use. Keeps for a few months at least at room temp.

If you do it like I described then the plant doesn't switch off flower production and flowers out normally. If the plant gets ripe before the seeds do you just harvest the rest of the plant leaving the pollinated bits on until the seeds are falling out of the calyxes and then harvest them. Can just use a smaller light source to finish them off so you don't need to run your big light for an extra couple weeks.

 

[OldMedUser]

First off your right when you say thats not how to do it. Now after those plants are done you are going to have to clean entire room top to bottom or risk pollinating every crop after this. And also yes by doing it that way you will only get seeds where the pollen got lucky enough to hit another plant.

I've been growing in the same room since I bought this place over 13 years ago and never done a complete cleaning tho I sweep and vacuum regularly. Had mites once and thrips a couple times along with fungus gnats and many pollination projects. I'm either damn lucky or it's not that big a deal. Probably just lucky.

Good idea to spray the place down tho pollen grains will die off in a short time from the light and moisture in a grow room.

 

[420BongRips]

Are these Hermie bananas or anything associated with Hermie parts? Or am I just tripping? I will take more pictures when the lights come back on but some of the calyxes are opened up and I picked off a few and I'm pretty sure some powdery gritty stuff came out.

 

[OldMedUser]

Those are just old female pre-flowers that are drying up.

Pick a bunch off and put them in your pipe for a bit of a buzz.

 

[420BongRips]

Those are just old female pre-flowers that are drying up.

Pick a bunch off and put them in your pipe for a bit of a buzz.

Thanks. I'm pulling the plug on my sativa strain as pictured. It's seeding up way too much to be of any use and keeping it just takes up too much space and is risky IMO as this many seeds to me indicates a possible Hermie spot on the plant somewhere even if it's not there is just too much seed so I will let the others take her spot giving the rest of the ladies more breathing room. R.I.P at 5 weeks. Had 5-6 more to go lol.

 

[OldMedUser]

Not going to let the seeds ripen? Can cut off most of the branches and re-pot it into a smaller pot then let the seeds ripen. Gone most of the way now. Doubt it's hermie just regular pollen from that male.

 

[420BongRips]

Not going to let the seeds ripen? Can cut off most of the branches and re-pot it into a smaller pot then let the seeds ripen. Gone most of the way now. Doubt it's hermie just regular pollen from that male.

Eh, oh well it's already pulled.

 

[420BongRips]

Oh bananas.... I was right
Always trust your gut instinct.

 

[OldMedUser]

Yep.