Right i want to get this myth out off the way!

Smithy1

Smithy1

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I had 4 plants in my tent and one hermied started growing nanners i thought i could handle them by picking them off with tweezers and it all got to much one day and thought fuck it ill look right inside a nug and it was PACKCED with nanners so i panicked and chopped at week 5 and my other 3 plants have started growing seeds,

My other 3 plants are 7 weeks into flower now, Im currently picking around 10 seeds off my remainimg 3 plants a day, Some are small and green and some are near popping out mature seeds but they are not on the huge colas up top they are mainly on the bottom nugs.

Now this is my question that i really NEED Answering, Will these seeds be feminized and worth keeping?

Or if i germ and grow them will they just herm out?

Ive read that the nanners have pollen and that one nanner plant i had has pollinated my other 3 which are now producing seeds, Plus my 4 plants where grown from feminized seeds.

Im new to growimg growing its only my second grow but this has been a lot better than my first my first was a disaster, I suppose you learn as you go heyyy.

Sorry for posting a lot but im getting different answers from our good old friend google.
 
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MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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I agree with not taking some chances but I grow the few stress seeds from sensitive plants all the time amd i still havent had the seed from a reversed parent actually reverse. As i learn to grow the strains better i see less and less stress seeds.

These are mostly diesel/thai hybrids. Best high but not the easiest to grow like a nice stable northern light or afghan.

Most reversals are grower error. Recently i had a real bad outbreak. Second one i have seen in 5 years growing thai crosses.

I know i overfed her through transition. She really reversed and that is rare but it was still my grower error.

I will eventually grow out the seeds if i find any. The plant is super potent. I have noticed this with hard to grow strains that are a bit more sensitive than average.


And i think the hermie thing is in all of the plants. Not just ones with a “hermie gene”.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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Smithy1 said:
I had 4 plants in my tent and one hermied started growing nanners i thought i could handle them by picking them off with tweezers and it all got to much one day and thought fuck it ill look right inside a nug and it was PACKCED with nanners so i panicked and chopped at week 5 and my other 3 plants have started growing seeds,

My other 3 plants are 7 weeks into flower now, Im currently picking around 10 seeds off my remainimg 3 plants a day, Some are small and green and some are near popping out mature seeds but they are not on the huge colas up top they are mainly on the bottom nugs.

Now this is my question that i really NEED Answering, Will these seeds be feminized and worth keeping?

Or if i germ and grow them will they just herm out?

Ive read that the nanners have pollen and that one nanner plant i had has pollinated my other 3 which are now producing seeds, Plus my 4 plants where grown from feminized seeds.

Im new to growimg growing its only my second grow but this has been a lot better than my first my first was a disaster, I suppose you learn as you go heyyy.

Sorry for posting a lot but im getting different answers from our good old friend google.
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So far Ive seen you ask this question around 5 times in different threads.

Here’s what has happened.

Your female plant X has grown male flowers Y in a self preservation situation.


Does this mean your plant has changed sex?

No. It means your plant has become stressed enough to throw out some bananas.

Now, due to there being no male plant around only sets of male flowers this means that the pollen will be female (just like when people use colloidal silver to induce male flowers)

Does this mean that your resulting seeds will be feminised. YES as there wasn’t a male around to create regular seeds.

Now the big question is will these seeds be viable due to the way they have been created?

The answer is this!

Will they be female - Yes

Could they carry the Hermie trait due to the way they were made - Yes

Should you grow them and try them - that’s only an answer you can make.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Its not a breedable trait but hard wired into all weed, a hermie is just a female you stressed.

Why do you think it happens to most new growers?

The answer is there for the clever but it will never be attained by the dumbasses, they will merely spread myth/hype which is why you have to ask five times.

:-)

That is the answer but how we get to this genetic point is way more interesting.

- In the wild pollen distance traveled is reduced by water/wet storms. Allowing a male nanna to pop up on a female bud reduces this distance and ensures pollination in the bad years. T

Over successive bad years the female percentage increases to ensure at least something is pollinated and secures the next generation.

Its not some genetically breedable thing its some mutation or evolution weed picked up millions of years ago and though ill make that permanent. Not hard to selectively breed that in in the wild with good and bad years as in the bad years the hermed plants will proliferate more.

:-)
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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ttystikk said:
If you keep the seeds made from breeding plants with hermaphroditic traits, why would you think the resulting genetics would NOT carry the trait as well?
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Your suggesting this is a breedable trait......

So stop with the advice and go breed me a hermie free strain..... You cant but act like you can with that genetic talk.

Whos right or wrong here i wonder, you suggesting we can breed hermies or unbreed them or me with my sciencey pollen travelling hard wired answer that is 100% different to your opinion.

I swear this board needs to start deciding what stuff is and isnt not go round in circles so we can humour the fools :-)
 
xtsho

xtsho

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The first cross I ever made was years ago and the pollen came from nanners that formed on one plant. I grew that cross for years and gave it out to friends. None ever hermied. I sure wish I still had that strain. It was a cross between a Master Kush and a clone only strain I got from a friend who got it from California.
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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I thought it was common knowledge that breeders chose the plants that handled stresses the best.

That with light cycle interuptions, massive nutrient stress, extended moisture stress, etc. the plants would not reverse.

I read that this was done to all the original hybrids we have enjoyed.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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vtim802 said:
Best thing to do is start using a viparspectra. the full spectrum light produces 97-99% no hermafrodick plants. it is a wuick and easy way to get beautiful, bountiful, bouncing big ol smooth sexy buds. and flowering? no problem, with viparspectra you will get many many frosted thicc super dense 40%+ thc trichone laden sickkkk buds bro
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I'll take my 600 watt HPS over that light any day.
 
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