Hermie plant, now what?

SirCannadid · Nov 21, 2016

Yesterday I posted about how I thought one of my plants had hermied on me, after some extensive looking I found that one of the four plants had already popped 3 or 4 pollen sacs in my grow room. Another of the four is pretty much a goner, it looks like all of her bud sites were pollinated and are turning prematurely brown.

The hermie itself looks like it got a few of it's own but there are so many budsites that not all of them got hit. So, I ask. What do I do now?

The other two plants haven't really entered pre-flower yet and still have yet to show any white hairs, so I'm thinking they'll be fine. I don't want to throw the hermie out, being that I only have four plants, I'm going to try to keep up with the pollen sacs and remove them before they become a problem.

I have five weeks left give or take, this chore will without a doubt be fun in any capacity, but I feel it's worth a shot at least.

Any thoughts?

I got the seeds from herbies, the strain is GG#4 auto

Alienwidow · Nov 21, 2016

SirCannadid said:
Yesterday I posted about how I thought one of my plants had hermied on me, after some extensive looking I found that one of the four plants had already popped 3 or 4 pollen sacs in my grow room. Another of the four is pretty much a goner, it looks like all of her bud sites were pollinated and are turning prematurely brown.

The hermie itself looks like it got a few of it's own but there are so many budsites that not all of them got hit. So, I ask. What do I do now?

The other two plants haven't really entered pre-flower yet and still have yet to show any white hairs, so I'm thinking they'll be fine. I don't want to throw the hermie out, being that I only have four plants, I'm going to try to keep up with the pollen sacs and remove them before they become a problem.

I have five weeks left give or take, this chore will without a doubt be fun in any capacity, but I feel it's worth a shot at least.

Any thoughts?

I got the seeds from herbies, the strain is GG#4 auto

So water kills pollen. So theres that.
Its a tough call. If your already polinated then theres no real point in throwing stuff out unless your plant goes so bad, that the male parts are outnumbering female ones. Most guys pick off the male parts and keep running. If your hit, expect seeds, and if the new ones are into flower, those will have em too if theres more sacs popping off the first one. The other thing is that there may not be that many seeds or there may be hundreds. Ive had some herms in the room before and gotten the plant out, let the rest grow on, and had minimal seeding. Ive also run through bananas quite a few times with minimal seeds. And when you trim youll see em, and pluck em. If that plant keeps getting worse though, youll probably have a bunch of good weed, with seeds. Still very smokeable, but seeded.

mrpuffins · Nov 21, 2016

It was a auto, pre femed, and turned hermie? unless you know you stressed it I would ask for a resend from barney

Lordhooha · Nov 21, 2016

Alienwidow said:
So water kills pollen. So theres that.
Its a tough call. If your already polinated then theres no real point in throwing stuff out unless your plant goes so bad, that the male parts are outnumbering female ones. Most guys pick off the male parts and keep running. If your hit, expect seeds, and if the new ones are into flower, those will have em too if theres more sacs popping off the first one. The other thing is that there may not be that many seeds or there may be hundreds. Ive had some herms in the room before and gotten the plant out, let the rest grow on, and had minimal seeding. Ive also run through bananas quite a few times with minimal seeds. And when you trim youll see em, and pluck em. If that plant keeps getting worse though, youll probably have a bunch of good weed, with seeds. Still very smokeable, but seeded.

The only thing is if it's really worth it. Once pollination takes place it uses all the energy to develop seeds more than bud. If I have hermies I scrap them to the wood chipper or set them a blaze. If several that got pollinated grow seeds there's a chance that more of those seeds will in turn herm out on you as well thus continuing the circle lady boys.

SirCannadid · Nov 21, 2016

mrpuffins said:
It was a auto, pre femed, and turned hermie? unless you know you stressed it I would ask for a resend from barney

It was feminized autoflower, I emailed them asking for a refund or a replacement, I have taken a lot of precautions to keep em healthy so I'm thinking it was genetic

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