What do i do with a hermi?????

Ok so I have 3 plants growing all have been lollipopped and also have all been topped twice ... 2 of them are flourishing females and one is a half and half I can see pistils on a few of the tops and big male seed clusters on the other half... What do I do ??? Do I chop the whole thing down?? Or do I chop the male parts.... My 2nd grow using a 400w hps right now vegged with a 400w mh did a 6 week vedge please help

Trying2grow said:

Ok so I have 3 plants growing all have been lollipopped and also have all been topped twice ... 2 of them are flourishing females and one is a half and half I can see pistils on a few of the tops and big male seed clusters on the other half... What do I do ??? Do I chop the whole thing down?? Or do I chop the male parts.... My 2nd grow using a 400w hps right now vegged with a 400w mh did a 6 week vedge please help

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id pull the fucker out and shake it all about, but thats just me

If theres not many, pluck them off. Lick your fingers first, then pluck it and eat it. That will prevent any pollen spread.

yeah id cut it out 2. its heartbreaking i know but you gotta do it i did it to this 1

the fucker grew nutsacks on me!

Capt. Stickyfingers said:

If theres not many, pluck them off. Lick your fingers first, then pluck it and eat it. That will prevent any pollen spread.

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bet your wife love you talking to her like that.....jk just sounds rude lol

Trying2grow said:

.. ... Do I chop the whole thing down?? Or do I chop the male parts.... My 2nd grow using a 400w hps right now vegged with a 400w mh did a 6 week vedge please help

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Depends whether you want seeds or not. Really, that's all the male flowers are good for. The male 'seeds' are pollen sacs that - once ripe - will open like a little bunch of Bananas and dump powder out, thus fertilizing the female calyxes (the individual female flowers).

Once the female flowers have been pollinated, the plant will slow down the production of THC-containing Trichomes and start funneling it's energy into creating healthy seeds.

So if you've got all the seeds you need, and only want dank, sticky potent buds, then you want to remove the male flowers before they burst: Once that happens, your plant will be riddled with seeds, and a much less potent smoke.

If you DO want to create seeds for some future grow, you should realize that since the plant is a hermaphrodite, the seeds it produces will have hermaphroditic tendancies as well, the genetics will be passed on.

See the thing that really sux is when I bought them they where feminized =( so guessing the stress from lollipopping and topping turned it too the dark side =( lol

Destroying all hermies is the usual approach, but for myself, personally, if I had a hermie growing, I'd separate it from the non-hermie females and collect the pollen sacs for later use.

Remember, pollen keeps in the fridge/freezer for quite a while.

But you haven't stated whether you're JUST aiming for virgin females (Aren't we all!), or if you'd prefer to create some backup seeds or whatever. I know, I know: There's little that's LESS desirable than hermies, and TRYING to create hermie seeds isn't what most people would ever want to do, but it's an option!

Otherwise, if you don't want to keep the hermie, pull a large plastic bag over the plant (garbage bag is good), and dispose of the plant: Eliminating Hermies is really the only course of action though, if you wish to keep low-potency seeded buds OUT of the gene pool.

Trying2grow said:

See the thing that really sux is when I bought them they where feminized =( so guessing the stress from lollipopping and topping turned it too the dark side =( lol

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If you KNOW they're Fems, then I would make a point of collecting some pollen: If they're hermies purely due to stress, then they should be capable of producing fem seeds. The offspring shouldn't hermie unless they're stressed.

If one of my fem's grew balls, I'd fertilize the fucker just to SEE how many GOOD fem seeds she produced, then all you'd need do is select the child plants that are hardest to stress into hermying, and kill any that stress-out/hermie too easily.

What I'd do, anyhoo

Trying2grow said:

See the thing that really sux is when I bought them they where feminized =( so guessing the stress from lollipopping and topping turned it too the dark side =( lol

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Reg seeds herm from stress too. Maybe you stressed them in more ways than just lollypopping. A big misconception is that only plants from fem seed hermy. Every strain (3 different ones) I ran from the coveted, most fanboy infested breeder TGA has hermed. But my emerald triangle fems have been solid.

GrassCity Sucks said:

Destroying all hermies is the usual approach, but for myself, personally, if I had a hermie growing, I'd separate it from the non-hermie females and collect the pollen sacs for later use.

Remember, pollen keeps in the fridge/freezer for quite a while.

But you haven't stated whether you're JUST aiming for virgin females (Aren't we all!), or if you'd prefer to create some backup seeds or whatever. I know, I know: There's little that's LESS desirable than hermies, and TRYING to create hermie seeds isn't what most people would ever want to do, but it's an option!

Otherwise, if you don't want to keep the hermie, pull a large plastic bag over the plant (garbage bag is good), and dispose of the plant: Eliminating Hermies is really the only course of action though, if you wish to keep low-potency seeded buds OUT of the gene pool.

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Well basically my original plan was to clone the females not have to start from seeds again which would almost 100% ensure me to have another set of females... But I'm gonna prob go the regular route...which is just chop em down =(