Flowering a hermie

TreeFiddy350

TreeFiddy350

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So I have 4 plants in coco. One of them hermed. They are on week 3 of flower.
If I finish out the flowe cycle with the other 3 not hermed, will the rest get seeds?
I’m not too worried about them getting seeds because I would have more seeds to plant and whatnot.
Is there anything bad about doing this?
 
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Keep on going and get some weed out of it. In the future look for stable strains and check for light or other stress issues on the plants.
 
Jaybodankly said:
Keep on going and get some weed out of it. In the future look for stable strains and check for light or other stress issues on the plants.
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Yeah it’s a long story. Basically people kept peaking during lights out. Smh.
How many seeds do you think will produce, just a guesstimate?
 
IF the numbers of the sacks/bananas aren't too overwhelming you can very carefully pluck them out being careful not to rupture them. Sometimes they don't open at all and end up buried in the flowers.

If the numbers are in abundance and they keep showing up day after day more and more, and start opening, the whole crop is at risk to becoming seeded.
 
CannaBruh said:
IF the numbers of the sacks/bananas aren't too overwhelming you can very carefully pluck them out being careful not to rupture them. Sometimes they don't open at all and end up buried in the flowers.

If the numbers are in abundance and they keep showing up day after day more and more, and start opening, the whole crop is at risk to becoming seeded.
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Like there are a few (maybe 10 total), but most don’t look fully developed. Looks like they are starting to develop. I’ll take pictures in a few hours.
If the crop gets seeded, would those seeds herm? Since more than likely it wasn’t genetics, but rather stress factors.
 
TreeFiddy350 said:
None that I can tell so far. They are just bunching up together. It looks weird af
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Pluck them off with tweezers and dip into a cup of water to avoid pollen going airborne. More often than not they don't come back, ime. I don't consider plants that do that herms. It's more like environmental stress. And if those balls popped from people opening your tent during lights out, I would be willing to bet they don't come back as long as the dark period stays uninterrupted.
 
macsnax said:
Pluck them off with tweezers and dip into a cup of water to avoid pollen going airborne. More often than not they don't come back, ime. I don't consider plants that do that herms. It's more like environmental stress. And if those balls popped from people opening your tent during lights out, I would be willing to bet they don't come back as long as the dark period stays uninterrupted.
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Yeah people are assholes. Does it when I’m at work.
If I did happen to leave it alone, do you think it would pollinate all thenplants? And if it does, approx how many seeds? Just letting it do it’s thing.
 
Hermaphrodism is a genetic trait that gets passed on. If stress caused it all my plants would go hermie but they don't.

If the other plants get pollinated they flip to seed production then yield and potency are greatly decreased. Seeds from them will be about 50% herms.

Hermies must die! Or at least cut their balls off and check often for more.

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OldMedUser said:
Hermaphrodism is a genetic trait that gets passed on. If stress caused it all my plants would go hermie but they don't.

If the other plants get pollinated they flip to seed production then yield and potency are greatly decreased. Seeds from them will be about 50% herms.

Hermies must die! Or at least cut their balls off and check often for more.

:peace:
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That would be true if they were all the same strain/ genetics, right? (Serious question. I’m soaking in the knowledge).
Wouldn’t different strains/ genetics be able to withstand more stress/ environmental changes?
 
macsnax said:
Quite contrary actually.... A lot of times a sexualy confused plant will produce pollen that isn't viable. You would be surprised how easy it is to make a lot of seeds if you're trying.
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Man I kinda wanna start breeding lol I’m about to start reading on that. Just to dabble a bit
 
OldMedUser said:
Hermaphrodism is a genetic trait that gets passed on. If stress caused it all my plants would go hermie but they don't.

If the other plants get pollinated they flip to seed production then yield and potency are greatly decreased. Seeds from them will be about 50% herms.

Hermies must die! Or at least cut their balls off and check often for more.

:peace:
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I agree, I don't think we need to be dirty-ing up the gene pool with more herms.
 
TreeFiddy350 said:
That would be true if they were all the same strain/ genetics, right? (Serious question. I’m soaking in the knowledge).
Wouldn’t different strains/ genetics be able to withstand more stress/ environmental changes?
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All cannabis has the ability to go hermie but the normal ones only do it very late in flowering when they haven't been pollinated so try to do it to themselves as a survival trait. Early fem seeds were produced by keeping a female in flower past her due date to make her produce 'nanners. Those were collected and used on other plants to make fem seeds.

Some get a genetic quirk that causes them to do it in early flower and that is an undesirable trait so should not be propagated by growing out seeds from such a union. More prevalent now with all the inbreeding and mixing of strains to produce all the mongrel strains sold these days.

I've been pollen chucking for almost 20 years but I reject seeds from any female that goes hermie. Got a shot glass full of those and all they are good for is tossing around in town for shits and giggles. We used to do that in the Richmond Mall's big plant pots from all the mexi pot seeds we had to clean out before smoking it. Think late 60s.

I'm currently getting into serious breeding to establish some stable lines crossing hi-CBD plants with each other and some of my favorite regular strains. Going to have to make my own sodium thiosulfate and silver nitrate so I can make silver thiosulfate to spray on a female and force her to produce male flowers as some of the strains I have growing now are from clones and/or fem seeds so I don't have a male to get pollen from. I have almost everything I need except aluminum wire to hold the silver coin so I can control how fast it gets reacted in hot nitric acid. Don't want it to boil over.

I've got some studying to do myself to learn more about selecting the right plants to cross and when to inbreed to finally get seeds that grow uniform plants. So many seeds now are sold as F1s which any old pollen chucker can produce but sold for the same outrageous prices as seeds that have been stabilized through breeding multiple generations by people who know what they are doing.

:peace:
 
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