Fem,male or hermie ?

Hey guys, i got a little bit scared today, i looked at my plants, flowering already, really early stage of flowering, and when i squeeze the small buds creating, i can feel some kind of seed or something.

is it male or female or hermie ?

let me know, here are few pictures:

Looks female.
looks like mites?

I am thinking female

I am about a month away from harvest. I had not checked the plants for about three weeks. Yesterday, I found a 7 ft male? It was just ready to open the pollen sacks. Three weeks ago it looked like a female. WTF?

Svee said:

I am about a month away from harvest. I had not checked the plants for about three weeks. Yesterday, I found a 7 ft male? It was just ready to open the pollen sacks. Three weeks ago it looked like a female. WTF?

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Get your eyes checked

Thank you SO much for your help, jacksass! Can ANYONE who knows something, please explain why this occurred. I am very worried about the other thirty plants!

All of those photos show female preflowers. I had a recent scare with an auto that started new preflowers while already well into the flower cycle. I don't think you have any worries. And in your previous statement, you thought harvest was a month away? I think you may find it will take longer than that, judging by those photos.

Sorry, that was a different poster who mentioned the harvest time. My mistake.

I guess my question is, don't normal male plants show their sex in the first two months or so? The plant I am referring to was from a feminised seed. It had little buds on it, three weeks ago, then yesterday I find a seven foot tall male, with MANY pollen sacks! Is this a hermie? I have grown for many years and have NEVER seen anything like this!

Svee said:

I guess my question is, don't normal male plants show their sex in the first two months or so? The plant I am referring to was from a feminised seed. It had little buds on it, three weeks ago, then yesterday I find a seven foot tall male, with MANY pollen sacks! Is this a hermie? I have grown for many years and have NEVER seen anything like this!

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There is no way, in my opinion, to explain this, unless you did something DRASTIC to the feminized plant that became a hermie/male plant. Occam's Razor tells us that the easiest and most likely explanation would be a fuck up during the packaging of the seeds.

Svee said:

I guess my question is, don't normal male plants show their sex in the first two months or so? The plant I am referring to was from a feminised seed. It had little buds on it, three weeks ago, then yesterday I find a seven foot tall male, with MANY pollen sacks! Is this a hermie? I have grown for many years and have NEVER seen anything like this!

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And most strains will show sex after flipping to flower, about two weeks in. Generally. You can veg a plant for months and not know sex until it goes to flower.

@Svee , Male's "should" show their sex first when growing from seed as opposed to females. They need to mature fastet to make sure they can spread their pollen early in flowering to ensure proper seed development. However if like you said three weeks ago everything was good and now there is a stretched hermie, then something changed to its environment and or caused a lot of stress. Simply having female seeds is not a guarantee that you will get a female plant. Multiple things come into consideration i.e. heat, training, stress, light leaks etc. I recently grew some bag seed to freshen up on my DWC skills since its been a minute and I've recently changed nutrients. However I let this bag seed develop for roughly a month and a week, put her into flowering and took clones. Somewhere along the line she turned into a hermie. Some nodes showed both female pistils and male pollen sacks. This was attributed to massive amounts of stress and an imperfect growing/flowering environment. However this was a test plant, and served its purpose.

Strains like Blueberry tend to either hermie or show nanners, due to poor genetics at least in my experience and from what I've read. So there are multiple factors. If you have a plant with only pollen sacks its a male, only pistils its a pure sensimella, both or nanners its a hermie. Also three weeks between observing your ladies? That seems a little long for such a sensitive plant.

If it isn't already obvious you should remove that plant, spray its pollen sacks with water before removing it to prevent any pollen that may have escaped from becoming air borne. Also cover it with a trash bag to prevent any pollen from spilling on your ladies.

I hope this was helpful. If I had to guess I would say either stress or light leak. Good luck.

Thank you!! I grow outside. I have thirysome other plants and they were all treated very gently, from seeds. They all get the same light and water. We have been lucky with enough rainfall that I didn't need to carry water in. I guess the less I am there, the less chance of a problem. Three weeks ago they were all fat and happy! I removed the plant as soon as I saw it!!! The seed was OG's.


Male's "should" show their sex first when growing from seed as opposed to females. They need to mature fastet to make sure they can spread their pollen early in flowering to ensure proper seed development. However if like you said three weeks ago everything was good and now there is a stretched hermie, then something changed to its environment and or caused a lot of stress. Simply having female seeds is not a guarantee that you will get a female plant. Multiple things come into consideration i.e. heat, training, stress, light leaks etc. I recently grew some bag seed to freshen up on my DWC skills since its been a minute and I've recently changed nutrients. However I let this bag seed develop for roughly a month and a week, put her into flowering and took clones. Somewhere along the line she turned into a hermie. Some nodes showed both female pistils and male pollen sacks. This was attributed to massive amounts of stress and an imperfect growing/flowering environment. However this was a test plant, and served its purpose.

Strains like Blueberry tend to either hermie or show nanners, due to poor genetics at least in my experience and from what I've read. So there are multiple factors. If you have a plant with only pollen sacks its a male, only pistils its a pure sensimella, both or nanners its a hermie. Also three weeks between observing your ladies? That seems a little long for such a sensitive plant.

If it isn't already obvious you should remove that plant, spray its pollen sacks with water before removing it to prevent any pollen that may have escaped from becoming air borne. Also cover it with a trash bag to prevent any pollen from spilling on your ladies.

I hope this was helpful. If I had to guess I would say either stress or light leak. Good luck.[/QUOTE]

]Thank you!! I grow outside. I have thirysome other plants and they were all treated very gently, from seeds. They all get the same light and water. We have been lucky with enough rainfall that I didn't need to carry water in. I guess the less I am there, the less chance of a problem. Three weeks ago they were all fat and happy! I removed the plant as soon as I saw it!!! The seed was OG's.

@FallenCZ , some ladies produce seeds towards the end of the harvest, usually if you allow them to run past the harvest time. Being that you are extremely early in flowering I would say just monitor, but you might have a hermie. Your last picture is somewhat troubling, looking at that pistil and how fat it is compared to its node seems odd. There is definitely a seed growing. However your second picture shows what seems to be a normal pistil. I would give it a week or two depending on your patience. If she is going to completely hermie out I'm sure you will either get nanners or pollen sacks. If only a few pistils are being affected for whatever reason, don't sweat the small stuff, you could always pull that pistil off and save all the energy your lady is attempting to put into seed development and hope that she uses it somewhere else. Good luck.

Mine above, kush strain in 4th week... are they making seeds?

They do look considerable swollen lol, it would appear that the calyx's that are orange in color are producing seeds while the white calyx's are not. Does anyone else agree with this assumption? Also you should put a coat on that lady because she is looking frosty.

Back to the OP POST ... Don't squeeze your buds .... Especially since they are mainly preflowers ... You will damage them.

Addonexus said:

They do look considerable swollen lol, it would appear that the calyx's that are orange in color are producing seeds while the white calyx's are not. Does anyone else agree with this assumption? Also you should put a coat on that lady because she is looking frosty.

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I was thinking the same from all the pictures I've seen But then again this is my first grow so maybe im paranoid?