can hermies pollinate females?

fantasticof

fantasticof

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i started off flowering 2 hermies 1 male and 5 females. i killed the male the day it seemed to start sexxing male. i killed one hermie cause it seemed have less female characteristics and more male. and if you look at my threads i just had a female die on me for some reason i couldnt find... so, now i have 4 female and 1 hermie in the same grow room. the hermie stays far away from the mamas but, can a hermie pollinate my mamas?? and, what will happen if it can? i've been flowering for 33 days and have never really thought about this..
 
IGTHY

IGTHY

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fantasticof said:
i started off flowering 2 hermies 1 male and 5 females. i killed the male the day it seemed to start sexxing male. i killed one hermie cause it seemed have less female characteristics and more male. and if you look at my threads i just had a female die on me for some reason i couldnt find... so, now i have 4 female and 1 hermie in the same grow room. the hermie stays far away from the mamas but, can a hermie pollinate my mamas?? and, what will happen if it can? i've been flowering for 33 days and have never really thought about this..
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Hermans' can't pollinate your other plants because the small amount of pollen isn't viable. KEEP SMOKE ALIVE!!!
 
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medgrower49

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Thats completely false a hermie can and WILL pollinate the rest of your crop. I just pulled a hermie out that I didn't find until 30 days in flowering and it has already pollinated the other three plants in the grow room with it. I harvested a small bud from each to find premature seeds in all of them. pull the hermie now and hope its not too, I would hate for you to have a seedy batch like I am going to have just to get a little more smoke.
 
ganjagoddess

ganjagoddess

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IGTHY said:
Hermans' can't pollinate your other plants because the small amount of pollen isn't viable. KEEP SMOKE ALIVE!!!
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WHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTT!!! Whered did you get that info from...

The pollen is VIABLE, its just genetically female....
 
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Gartner

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You can identify the male and female, from the flowering period, NOrmally female plants can be identified from which it looks like furry hairs, usually looks pure white in colors,
And the male plants looks like a small bunches,, it starts from the leaf joint...
 
sgt d

sgt d

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It's not so much an issue of the hermie being NEAR the other plants...'cause even if you keep it at your neighbor's house or whatever, you're still likely to carry some pollen into your room on your clothes or your hair or any one of a million other unfortunate ways. If you're not aiming to have a dodgy batch of seeds that'll produce hermie prone plants, you'd better get that fucker outta there before there's trouble.

I know, nobody likes to kill their babies, but consider this one an evil twin that could grow into a monster that should've never been spawned.

As for having squeezed that ball and then touched the female, it's tough to say. If you did it before the pollen matured into viability, well, you're good...
 
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