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Mburton15

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Background: Just finished my 4th week of flowering and a couple days ago I noticed what appeared to be premature seeds. This was after a pretty bad nute burn (first grow). After researching I found out that I had a plant go hermie on me. It was a female and is well into flower.

The plant I first noticed the seeds on is Big Bud and I also have a mazar plant as well. Today I noticed the mazar was polinated by the hermie BB.

Questions:

1. Are seeds from a hermie plant feminized (ive read this ina couple different posts).

2. What will be the results of my mazar polinated by a hermie BB?

Plants are sleeping at the moment but I will post pics tomorrow.
 
om3gawave

om3gawave

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Mburton15 said:
Background: Just finished my 4th week of flowering and a couple days ago I noticed what appeared to be premature seeds. This was after a pretty bad nute burn (first grow). After researching I found out that I had a plant go hermie on me. It was a female and is well into flower.

The plant I first noticed the seeds on is Big Bud and I also have a mazar plant as well. Today I noticed the mazar was polinated by the hermie BB.

Questions:

1. Are seeds from a hermie plant feminized (ive read this ina couple different posts).

2. What will be the results of my mazar polinated by a hermie BB?

Plants are sleeping at the moment but I will post pics tomorrow.
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Yes, your seeds will be feminized! Good stuff!

Now...the second question is a little more involved. It will simply be a cross between the two, having mixed genetics. But, it takes a few generations worth of mating to get certain traits out of certain plants. Meaning, you might have to take a few of your seeds and plant them, then keep pollinating them, generation after generation, until you get the trait you are looking for (certain flavours, scents, how it smokes, aesthetics).

Thats about it, in a nutshell :)

Hope it helps...happy growing friend, enjoy your feminized seeds :)
 
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Mburton15

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DoeEyed said:
The seeds will be predominantly hermie.:leaf:
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Ive read that seeds from a plant thats hermie by genetics will be predominantly hermie...This plant was 4 weeks into flowering with fairly large buds prior to the balls showing up. I definately nute burned the heck out of the BB and I also believe there are small light leaks as well.

If a female plant goes hermie due to stress, wont the seeds be feminized? I need some other opinions guys. Thanks!
 
DoeEyed

DoeEyed

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Mburton15 said:
If a female plant goes hermie due to stress, wont the seeds be feminized? I need some other opinions guys. Thanks!
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No. Two true females must be used, by which they mean, a pair of (unrelated) females that cannot be stressed into being hermie. When they are found to be true females, at that point, one of them is chemically induced into producing male flowers. (The key there is the chemical change, not a hermie due to stress). This pollen is then used to pollinate the other true female. The resulting seeds will then be feminized.
 
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Mburton15

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DoeEyed said:
No. Two true females must be used, by which they mean, a pair of (unrelated) females that cannot be stressed into being hermie. When they are found to be true females, at that point, one of them is chemically induced into producing male flowers. (The key there is the chemical change, not a hermie due to stress). This pollen is then used to pollinate the other true female. The resulting seeds will then be feminized.
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what is the "chemical change" you are talking about? Just curious
 
DoeEyed

DoeEyed

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Mburton15 said:
what is the "chemical change" you are talking about? Just curious
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Usually colloidal silver is used to induce the male flowers, though occasionally I see a thread about something else that's been used - can't remember what off the top of my head, sorry.
 
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