VansStoner1748
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First set is a Hermie, Second set are Females.
playallnite - would you mind telling me why you took over my thread?
Hey again,
It's 5.5 weeks flowering.
I decided to keep going on with all of them, and left for a 3 week vacation. After a 3 weeks vacation with my roommate in charge, I came back to see a disaster. Out of 5 plants, 2 were almost completely male, with tons of pollen filling the grow area. The single one that was a female and the two hermies were pollinated and grew many seeds. And to top things, he didn't notice the timer went broke and they got full 3 days of light!
However, there are some buds among the 3 (I killed the other two) and I'm keeping them.
Few questions:
1. I read that if a female grows pollen sacks and those pollens pollinate a female - it should produce feminized seeds. Correct?
2. How do I know if my herms are male-herms (i.e. males growing female organs) or female-herms (i.e. females growing male organs)? This is important to create the feminized seeds, right?
BTW - I'm in a hot country, and the temperatures were high since day 1 of seeding, around 25c-40c. Could this be the reason for me getting 9 males/hermies out of 10 seeds?
Will post pics soon.
Thank you!
If a plant with female chromosomes pollinates a plant with female chromosomes, the resulting plant will have female chromosomes. However, as you can see, the actual sex of the plant is only the strongest influence on the plants sexual development, not the only influence.1. I read that if a female grows pollen sacks and those pollens pollinate a female - it should produce feminized seeds. Correct?
You pretty much don't (though I'm sure there is some specialized and expensive test to find out, I doubt you are in a position to care that much...). You can get an indication just by whether it's male or female dominant, but that's just an indication, I've never heard of some sign (though I've also never heard of male to female hermies, not to say they don't happen). As I said, your questions are probably non issues because you don't want to use hermies to make seeds. You use one of several chemicals that cause male flower development without degrading the chromosomes and casing major genetic issues (basically hermies are typically very poor breeding stock). If you think feminized seeds are just hermied females you need to do a little more research2. How do I know if my herms are male-herms (i.e. males growing female organs) or female-herms (i.e. females growing male organs)? This is important to create the feminized seeds, right?
Possibly, I have certainly heard this is a factor, but I have yet to see much scientific data on hermies at all... Just looking at nature and educated guesses as to why hermies develop, I would think light would be more of a factor, but heat certainly can be a seasonal indicator to plants. It's always seemed to me like hermies are the plants response to thinking the growing season is too short to develop female flowers, so it pushed for the faster male in hopes to get some pollination in before it has to die. Again, I have no concrete scientific backing for my theory, but it certainly is a prevalent theory in the hobby.BTW - I'm in a hot country, and the temperatures were high since day 1 of seeding, around 25c-40c. Could this be the reason for me getting 9 males/hermies out of 10 seeds?
playallnite - would you mind telling me why you took over my thread?