Feminized seed but growing pollen sacs?

Rondeady

Rondeady

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Okay im growing all feminized seeds but this plant here has clearly grown a pollen sac. Also this plant is close to 2 weeks into flower and has already grown lots of pistils as u can see in the picture. Now this is my first grow so i cant be 100% sure. This is a scare do i have to get rid of it? How do i go about this?
 

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Rondeady said:
Okay im growing all feminized seeds but this plant here has clearly grown a pollen sac. Also this plant is close to 2 weeks into flower and has already grown lots of pistils as u can see in the picture. Now this is my first grow so i cant be 100% sure. This is a scare do i have to get rid of it?
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Probably will, but you can pluck them off and keep a close eye on it. If they keep coming back or start popping up in the bud itself(in the pistols) not just at the nodes I'd chunk it.
 
Its a hermie, but that can be caused by alot of things, Stress being #1. either be diligent and pluck the sacs off , or kill it, hermies give a huge change to reproduce hermie seeds, or easy stressed seeds. up to you but if it was me, id just grow it and make it into EXTRACTS oil hash w.e.
 
Is it the only one you have growing? If you have several others I'd chunk it and not risk seeding the rest of the crop. But if you only have one or two I'd pluck and keep a real close eye on it. I have plucked a few and never seen anymore, Rare but sometimes you get lucky.
 
Depending on method used, probably colloidal silver in this case, not 100% of seeds are female. You are usually looking at around 95% female rate, you are the 5% unlucky one in this case. Toss it.
 
boybelue said:
Is it the only one you have growing? If you have several others I'd chunk it and not risk seeding the rest of the crop. But if you only have one or two I'd pluck and keep a real close eye on it. I have plucked a few and never seen anymore, Rare but sometimes you get lucky.
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This is one out of five. But they are small plants that i wouldnt yeild more than a half ounce each off of and different strains. I have two plants of this strain (c99) which was the one i was most looking forward to which is why this is hard. Question: perhaps i plucked all off but missed one small one, will that mess up the harvest?
 

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This is one out of five. But they are small plants that i wouldnt yeild more than a half ounce each off of and different strains. I have two plants of this strain (c99) which was the one i was most looking forward to which is why this is hard. Question: perhaps i plucked all off but missed one small one, will that mess up the harvest?
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Yes. Only takes 1 pollen sac to produce hundreds of seeds. Not worth the risk, especially in a room with fans blowing it everywhere.
 
Okay so wtf i came to the conclusion that i was gonna toss this one then i just found pollen sacs on my only other fucking c99 strain. Im probably just gonna have to experience the seed inconvenience my self cuz its no way im throwing both these away
 

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Rondeady said:
This is one out of five. But they are small plants that i wouldnt yeild more than a half ounce each off of and different strains. I have two plants of this strain (c99) which was the one i was most looking forward to which is why this is hard. Question: perhaps i plucked all off but missed one small one, will that mess up the harvest?
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Very little pollen goes a long way, if you have very little circulation from fans and you can pull it out and look it over vigilantly( only a small plant, wouldn't try with a big plant easy to miss one on a big plant) then it can be done if you have the time to devote for inspection.
 
You may need to ck for light leaks since two are giving problems, if you can get in your tent at lights out and sit in there for 10 mins or so till yours eyes dilate and adjust, just to make sure you have no light bleeding into the tent. If no light leaks and plants are healthy, no big temp swings and your feeding is on point then I personally would scrap them, I know it's a tuff call and if you decide to go foward with them just watch them very carefully and if they start popping up in the buds it's pretty much game over, you would have to much seed to justify running them and seeding the others.
 
Dude just keep em all going as normal unless you want to have like zero harvest. Ive never had fem seeds produce anything but fems and herms come generally from stress and newer growers as few pros have seeded bud using fems.

There dont look like pollen sacs and few take the time to consider that these early preflowers can come out a little weird.

Ignore chants to kill off your grow and just give nature the patience thats needed.

If you dont make your grow overly windy you wont seed much - i dont even see bud you could seed so just chill :-)
 
kotobide said:
I could be wrong but they look a lot like swollen female calyx. One of the lower ones on the first pic has a red hair protruding from it.
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The two at the forefront are calyxes but the back two are male flowers forming or atleast appear that way because there are not pointed and there are no stigmas coming out of them. I would look at them closer and make sure those are different flowers than the ones with the stigmas, small hair like piece coming out of the point of the calyxe- which is a female flower. The small hair like protruding out are called the stigmas and are often referred to as pistols.
 
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boybelue said:
The two at the forefront are calyxes but the back two are male flowers forming or atleast appear that way because there are not pointed and there are no stigmas coming out of them. I would look at them closer and make sure those are different flowers than the ones with the stigmas, small hair like piece coming out of the point of the calyxe- which is a female flower. The small hair like protruding out are called the stigmas and are often referred to as pistols.
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Yea i’ve been picking off for about an hour and ive seen some were pointed. Could temps around 84 be too much stress during flower?
 
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Yea i’ve been picking off for about an hour and ive seen some were pointed. Could temps around 84 be too much stress during flower?
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84 is good, you dont want a big swing from day temps to night, which I have with no problems, but most peeps will say 10° is the most swing you want. Yeah those pointed ones that looks like a hair sticking out of is female and you can leave those. They're all good.
 
boybelue said:
84 is good, you dont want a big swing from day temps to night, which I have with no problems, but most peeps will say 10° is the most swing you want. Yeah those pointed ones that looks like a hair sticking out of is female and you can leave those. They're all good.
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Do you think it’ll drastically slow down bud production if i already picked all off?
 
Just the calyxes at the nodes? No I dont think you'll notice any difference there as all you'll have there is just that one calyxe, or 4 total at each node on the main stem, 2 on each side. Like that first pic.
 
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