good herm example

I bought some seeds from single seed center. I bought some reputable strains from well known seed banks. I have nothing against ssc they were polite,curtious and I had my order in 5 days. But I was not impressed with the genetic quality of the products... most seeds germinated and later died, 4 seeds never sprouted and 2 turne d out hermaphrodite. But this is one positive thing that came of it though. Some bad ass pictures of a hermie "spineapple".. for anyone wondering what a hermie looks like..... here you go.

SSC is but an agent of many seed breeders, more research on your part selecting a desirable strain will prevent this happening again, this is why many go for feminized seeds over the regular, in order for this not to repeat, best to wash down your grow room to remove any residual pollen

That's a male.

Where is the pic of the hermie? I only see a pic of a male plant.

Ive had hermies even worse than this one and it does look like a male at first but i new it wasnt a male bcoz it was a clone from a female that also ended up hermieing

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Sativied said:

That's a male.

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....One thats been allowed to live too long

Smokinr33 said:

Ive had hermies even worse than this one and it does look like a male at first but i new it wasnt a male bcoz it was a clone from a female that also ended up hermieing Sent from my GT-I9500 using Rollitup mobile app

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i agree with vos, except with using femmed gens. double digit years ago, i ask a good/great breeder, about femmed beans. he replied, "he would never carry that hermie crap!" i loved his strains, even though they were a bit expensive, i really liked several. that guy was dr. greenthumb. i really wish he made available, more of his strains non-femmed. i think he prob. went with the market, and that was femmed beans. i think they suk. if you want a high per-centage stable mother/plant, non-femmed (imo) is the way to go.

Silky Shagsalot said:

i agree with vos, except with using femmed gens. double digit years ago, i ask a good/great breeder, about femmed beans. he replied, "he would never carry that hermie crap!" i loved his strains, even though they were a bit expensive, i really liked several. that guy was dr. greenthumb. i really wish he made available, more of his strains non-femmed. i think he prob. went with the market, and that was femmed beans. i think they suk. if you want a high per-centage stable mother/plant, non-femmed (imo) is the way to go.

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has anyone put that to the test??? i mean has anyone took the time to investigate take a chance and loose money for the sake of documentation??? ill put it to the test these next go rounds i got a few fem seeds ill test to see why this is so contravershal

Dr. Greenthumb feminized seeds are very very good and are exactly what he says. I had a chem 4 mother from him that I had for like 2 years and it was fire every time. I also passed it out and it always worked real good, no herms ever. Then I got the Iranian Chem and it is better yet. Denser buds that finish 2 weeks faster and the weed is just as good. In fact it blew away some alien og my boy had from cali connect just this morning in a one after the other vape off. He said "damn whats that" lol. Now I have the gorilla glue clone or it would be my best strain. I am sure you can use a Dr. Greenthumb fem seed as a mother indefinitely as long as you take good care of it. I can't speak for any other seed company as I haven't tried any except the bc bud depot, they were far below expectations.

I run BOTH fems and regs... I love em both! I dont see any higher percentage of hermies from fem beans. IMO there is NO difference in genetics, except that one is guaranteed female.

looks like a straight up male to me as well as i don't see a single pistil on it, just many

amgprb said:

I run BOTH fems and regs... I love em both! I dont see any higher percentage of hermies from fem beans. IMO there is NO difference in genetics, except that one is guaranteed female.

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ding ding ding, we've got a winner... there is absolutely no difference in fem'ed seeds and reg's.. it all depends on the parents the seeds come from, for both... if the parent used to make seeds is hermie prone, guess what?? it's off spring will also carry this trait... if the parents were stable, and not prone to intersex, guess what? so will the off spring, again, doesn't matter if it's regular seeds, or fem'ed.. the fem'ing process does absolutely nothing to the dna of the plant, nor does it create intersex genetics if there were none there to start.. very simple logic here.. the only reason a stable plant grow balls was the introduction of a chemical, such as collodial silver.. if you don't spray the plant with cs, no balls.. that's only if the plant is stable to begin with.. of course no breeder should be breeding with unstable parents to begin with, when making regular seeds or feminized... some strains how ever carry intersex qualities in their dna, such as og kush, east coast sour diesel, trainwreck, chem dawg, and may others, and pretty much anything hit with these plants will have a tendency to go intersex, again, doens't matter if it's regular seeds, or feminized..

I got a Spineapple seed in my last order from Single Marijuna Seeds Canada. The breeder is Simply Female. Hope this doesn't happen to mine!

Sherman420

racerboy71 said:

looks like a straight up male to me as well as i don't see a single pistil on it, just many...

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...balls and stipules.

I'm guessing it's the latter that confuses some people. Especially when they are small and frosty they can appear to be pistils.




A male I've grown out earlier this year:


Later stage below. Each ball contains 5 bananas, which contain the actually pollen, which is released shortly after the ball opens like an umbrella:


Plants that hermie in an early stage, basically not fully committing to one sex, have male balls as well as female calyxes.

The common stress hermies later in flowering (after it committed to female) spawn bananas aka 'nanners' in female flowers (which we tend to call hermie, but isn't really hermaphrodite). Nanner is in middle at bottom:


Unfortunately the albums are missing, best pic I've seen is from, if I remember correctly, @SxIstew with nanners+pistils growing out of a calyx itself.

Trickier to detect, and harder to see if they actually contain pollen that's about to spread. They grow very fast, but the pollen in it needs some time to develop as well. Green is safe, yellow is bad. Female hermies with balls you kill, female hermies with nanners you can consider removing partly or even remove the individual nanners.

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http://edrosenthal.com/2012/01/ask-ed-marijuana-grow-tip-38-hermaphroditism.html

lol, thanks. looking back now im really not sure what the hell i was thinking.I dont see any female parts now either.... shit! sorry my people.

@Jimmy Sparkle: it's fine, we all like to imagine female parts now and then.

No disrespect but it's hard to take much of your criticism as valid. You state 4 just up and died, yet i'm led to think it might just be user error, given you can't even tell the difference between a male and a female yet, i'm not filled with high hopes as to your growing abilities and knowledge.

tip top toker said:

No disrespect but it's hard to take much of your criticism as valid. You state 4 just up and died, yet i'm led to think it might just be user error, given you can't even tell the difference between a male and a female yet, i'm not filled with high hopes as to your growing abilities and knowledge.

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Well, I made a mistake posting pics of my male plant issue and not the hermie. I can tell though that you are one of those type of people that never make mistakes. Further more I suspect that you are the same sort of troll that answers a Big Beautiful Womans personal ad and then says "I don't like "fat chicks" ..Fuck you troll..Choke on a dick!

Silky Shagsalot said:

i agree with vos, except with using femmed gens. double digit years ago, i ask a good/great breeder, about femmed beans. he replied, "he would never carry that hermie crap!" i loved his strains, even though they were a bit expensive, i really liked several. that guy was dr. greenthumb. i really wish he made available, more of his strains non-femmed. i think he prob. went with the market, and that was femmed beans. i think they suk. if you want a high per-centage stable mother/plant, non-femmed (imo) is the way to go.

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You make some good points there, but when you say to go with reg beans (not feminized), why is that better? I would dare to say that probably 98% of the people you ask that to as a question, they would probably disagree. Are you saying that a female plant that comes from a reg bean is more potent, or a bigger yielder, or something else? The smoke I encountered double digit years ago is no where near as good as it is today. Of course, I didn't have dr. greenthumb either (lol). Let us know your reasoning.

Sativied said:

...balls and stipules.

I'm guessing it's the latter that confuses some people. Especially when they are small and frosty they can appear to be pistils.

A male I've grown out earlier this year:
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Later stage below. Each ball contains 5 bananas, which contain the actually pollen, which is released shortly after the ball opens like an umbrella:
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Plants that hermie in an early stage, basically not fully committing to one sex, have male balls as well as female calyxes.

The common stress hermies later in flowering (after it committed to female) spawn bananas aka 'nanners' in female flowers (which we tend to call hermie, but isn't really hermaphrodite). Nanner is in middle at bottom:
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Unfortunately the albums are missing, best pic I've seen is from, if I remember correctly, @SxIstew with nanners+pistils growing out of a calyx itself.

Trickier to detect, and harder to see if they actually contain pollen that's about to spread. They grow very fast, but the pollen in it needs some time to develop as well. Green is safe, yellow is bad. Female hermies with balls you kill, female hermies with nanners you can consider removing partly or even remove the individual nanners.

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i love male mmj flowers i realy do