I got a hermi what now?????

dollabill840

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ok so when checking out my ladies today i found a horrid sight one of my girls must have took off and got a back alley sex change. i only found a few balls the plants are 30days into flowering and have been looking great so what should i do, just pull the sacks everyday or just pull and kill the plant all together if i do this can i still harvest the little buds i got so far please help
 
ok so when checking out my ladies today i found a horrid sight one of my girls must have took off and got a back alley sex change. i only found a few balls the plants are 30days into flowering and have been looking great so what should i do, just pull the sacks everyday or just pull and kill the plant all together if i do this can i still harvest the little buds i got so far please help
yeah, kill it. that same thing just happened to me. I do have a few seeds on my other plants. it's good. now I won't have to buy any and there really aren't very many seeds in my bud. that's right. kill it and harvest those little buds. it may taste strange though. the pollen tastes bad.
be sure to collect some of that pollen. cut the plant out of your garden. take it to another room. place it into a plastic bag...just large enough to cover the plant, upside down. gather the top of the bag around the main stem and shake it...side to side, not up n down. remove the plant, close the bag. then search the plant for little yellow sacs and cut them off. put them into the bag. when you think you have enough, put the bag into the freezer, remove most air first. you can remove the air then put the bag into a sealable plastic container, then into the freezer, for protection against getting crushed or popped.
take yer clothes off and wash em before doing anything else...definately don't go back into the grow area...you're covered in pollen! like a big azz bee~~~hahaha:bigjoint:

now you can use that pollen at a later grow to pollenate plants of your choice. just put that bag over a branch, closing it around the stem, give it a little shake, let it sit
for awhile to settle the pollen, carefully remove and replace the pollen in the freezer. you should do this in a seperate room and leave the plant there for some time before
returning it to the grow area. wash your clothes again, asap.


also, be sure to label that pollen and date it too. now you're a breeder!
 
I had the the same problem a this past weekend, It SUCKS, I had 4 Green House strains that was 29 days into flowering that showed balls and one that was only 14 days into flowering (hadn't showed pistols yep), they all sativas. To try to save the one that had no pistols yet I had to kill the other 4 plants. Also cleaned the entire tent and gave the plant left a good shower on the leaves to get whatever pollen that was on her off, so lets see what happens now.
There was one plant I really had love for, so I don't know if it's gonna work, but I'm trying to take a few cutings to try to seed them to keep the strain. But I never got the cloning thing right, I can't clone for shit.
Now all I have is one Super Silver Haze left.
Well good luck my friend.
 
Don't kill it, use the pollen from that hermi to create your own strain and produce feminized seeds......

Oh yeah, and make sure that you seperate it, from any other plants you don't want pollenated.....
 
Hey DollaBill, there are 2 avenues you can follow - kill it or seperate it..
I recommend seperation if possible. The plant is most likely a homaphrodite, but every now and then a female plant will give of sacks late into the flowering stage. If it had happened early on id say kill it and cut ur losses, but at this late in the game it'd b a waste especially since there is probably nothing wrong at all. I'd just cut em off and u should b fine.
If you dont want to take the risk then seperate it. An easy way to tell if it is just a freak thing is that a hermi will have green pods throughout the beginning of the flower stage, whereas a female will have slightly yellowed pods towards the end..
Hope this helps :-)
 
I had the the same problem a this past weekend, It SUCKS, I had 4 Green House strains that was 29 days into flowering that showed balls and one that was only 14 days into flowering (hadn't showed pistols yep), they all sativas. To try to save the one that had no pistols yet I had to kill the other 4 plants. Also cleaned the entire tent and gave the plant left a good shower on the leaves to get whatever pollen that was on her off, so lets see what happens now.
There was one plant I really had love for, so I don't know if it's gonna work, but I'm trying to take a few cutings to try to seed them to keep the strain. But I never got the cloning thing right, I can't clone for shit.
Now all I have is one Super Silver Haze left.
Well good luck my friend.
that is a real bummer! :neutral:
come by my grow and watch my 4 female SSH, they're 40 days in bud now. and you should read some of the feminizing techniques I used, also in my journal. I got 24/25 females, I did have 3 feminized seeds already...but I only found one male and one hermie out of 25 plants, the current grow.

5 Strains, circular light mover! :bigjoint:

I'll start harvesting in a few weeks, for some strains...six more weeks for SSH.
 
well i have moved it to a make shift grow area im gonna check it every day and just pull off any balls I see i only have three plants so losing one would be pretty sad
 
Yea, i only had 3 plants aswell - thats y i spent the hours and pulled them all off.. i suggest u take ur ipod in there with u..
Since u only have 4 days from the time u find them til the time they open and spread their evil pollen everywhere u\i suggest u start on the higher buds 1st.. If the lower one's open they'l just tip their pollen on the floor, but if the high ones open, they'l turn ur whole plant. As a precaution id turn ur fan off prior to going in there, and the obvious thing is b careful not to burst the pods and if u do get pollen on ur fingers DONT go touching other buds, or again ul pollenate em.
You can buy a spray (I dont know how good it is personally, but im told its good) that kills the male pollen in the air.. Give that a try to if u want to avoid pollenation if ur pods open..
 
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