Sexing

hydroMD

hydroMD

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Great advice mr shin.

Also sit back and evaluate. If your growing 24 plants perhaps its not worth the possibility of missing a few and ending up with seeds in everything. If you only have a few plants, remove the pre mature pollen sacks from start to finish. Lot of work, but you could be talking 20-50% of your yield if you have a small garden. Well worth the 10 minutes a day inspecting with tweasers.

A hermie will still produce fantastic smoke as long as the pollen sacks its producing are plucked before they developed pollen. Once a sack matures every spore of pollen that fertilized a plant will start taking energy that would have been used in resin production, and switch to seed production thus lowering potency and yield.

Its a scary thing for any grower let alone those new to it.


I have also taken any hermie and separated them from the bunch. Flowered them seperated just in case I missed something. Even if you skimp on lighting etc. on the seperated plants, you will atleast end up with good bud providing the phenotype isnt shit. Also by doing this you have two seperated environments which will make you learn twice as fast.


Every mistake I've made has made me a better grower, Id highly suggest dealing with this now and learning how to do it. Some day you may come across a killer phenotype with hermie tendencies, its nice to have peace of mind when in that situation.
 
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TheJaspMan

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mr2shim said:
Is that the only one? If so pick it off and keep growing, if more show up just chop it.
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It's the only one I saw. However the plant is a real straggler and possibly a waste of effort anyway. What concerns me is that I found others on another plant that is in full bloom and by all appearances doing very well. I did pick them off that one. But they could get hidden under the flowers at this point. I'd hate to hose up the other plants, so I'm not sure what to do.
 
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TheJaspMan

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hydroMD said:
Great advice mr shin.

Also sit back and evaluate. If your growing 24 plants perhaps its not worth the possibility of missing a few and ending up with seeds in everything. If you only have a few plants, remove the pre mature pollen sacks from start to finish. Lot of work, but you could be talking 20-50% of your yield if you have a small garden. Well worth the 10 minutes a day inspecting with tweasers.

A hermie will still produce fantastic smoke as long as the pollen sacks its producing are plucked before they developed pollen. Once a sack matures every spore of pollen that fertilized a plant will start taking energy that would have been used in resin production, and switch to seed production thus lowering potency and yield.

Its a scary thing for any grower let alone those new to it.


I have also taken any hermie and separated them from the bunch. Flowered them seperated just in case I missed something. Even if you skimp on lighting etc. on the seperated plants, you will atleast end up with good bud providing the phenotype isnt shit. Also by doing this you have two seperated environments which will make you learn twice as fast.


Every mistake I've made has made me a better grower, Id highly suggest dealing with this now and learning how to do it. Some day you may come across a killer phenotype with hermie tendencies, its nice to have peace of mind when in that situation.
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Thank you for the input. That was my thought as well, I am working on a new grow room now so I can separate them. I just hate the thought of adding more lights to the power bill.
 
Bucees

Bucees

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TheJaspMan said:
I did pick them off that one. But they could get hidden under the flowers at this point. I'd hate to hose up the other plants, so I'm not sure what to do.
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Yes they can be hidden! Had this happen to me a few years back. Nanners were popping out of a already established huge cola. Seeded 4 damn plants.
 
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