Spotted Seeds, First Time Ever... Questions

I am about a week from harvest, and I spotted seeds on some of my Purple Cream plants. I saw male flowers on some of the SD, but seeds are only ont he Purple Cream. I am about a week from harvest, but it looks as though the Purple Cream may need a bit longer. I have four of them in there total, but two were cut down today when I spotted the seeds.

Few questions... are some strains more likely to develope seeds if male flowers are present than other strains? I don't see seeds on any of the other strains, I wanted to grow this strain again but I'm not so sure now.

With a week left in harvest, if I left them up am I risking other plants developing seeds? I believe a week is not enough, but surely the Purple Creams will develop more seeds if left up.

I have no clue how it happened, my light schedule was fine... no real heat problems - never had this happen before.

You can not get seeds unless the bud was pollinated. One of the male pods must have opened. Remove the male plants as soon as you spot them to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Any strain will produce seeds if male flowers are present. The key to not getting seeds is to remove the male plants as early as possible unless you are trying to get seeds. Chop the males not the plants that were pollinated.

yea dude u houldn't have cut down the pollinated females because they still were producin buds as well and u prob. cut down ur harvest some.like said prev. only cut down males not pollenated females!!!

Need to clarify a bit... I am an experienced grower. I had 54 clones in my room, some of them got pollenated and started to produce seeds. Because I didn't want more seeds, I took them down.

No male plants in my room, a few must have hermied.

sounds as if you are right- somewhere along the line one or more of your female plants must have turned hermie and pollenated the plants.

the purple cream may just have been closer to the hermie and were, therefore, the only ones pollenated; or at or time of pollenation the pc were a little more mature than the other strain and ready to accept pollen when the others weren't - if you get me!

as already stated, best to leave them to finish even if they have got seeds, as you will know there is no danger of a fertilised female pollenating another female. So if you leave them up they will not effect the rest of your grow. You will still get a very good quality smoke out of the bud if left to finish, and at least you have a load of seeds for the future- the trouble is if they have been produced by selfing the chances of them being all female and hermaphordite aswell are very high.

the reason is difficult to pinpoint. could have turned hermie, as you said, because of ingress of light into the flowering room during flowering period; irregular lighting periods; or over-stressing of plants due to early triggering of flowering.

personallly my friend , i would go for the last option. But, as you know, the hermie condition depends on strain and the quality of the environment, it may be that your pc are prone to hermie if induced to flower early.

by the way, what is SD? (sour des?)

hope you manage to sort things.

Sour Diesel = SD


Yeah, I pulled a few of them but I left the others. I guess in the end I should have left the plants up to finish because they wouldn't pollinate other plants? Oh well, you live and you learn.

Thanks for info.