I need Help

po'thead

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I need help....I found what I think are pollen sacks on one of my plants. they've been flowering for about 6 weeks and this is the first sign i've seen of potential hermaphroditic tendencies. I only found a few and they are tiny...like 2 or 3 millimeters long. If it is hermie, but only a little bit. does it make sense to keep it? Here is a pic of what I pulled out of a bud.
 

jcdws602

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Just keep pinching them off....no need in pulling he/she this late in flowering..I have had some hermie plants produce some quality smoke..
 

DoeEyed

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Just keep pinching them off....no need in pulling he/she this late in flowering..I have had some hermie plants produce some quality smoke..
Yep, I agree. Yeah those are banannas - like jcdws602 said, just keep pulling them off.
 

po'thead

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yeah, after further inspection I've found a lot more bananas. I'm contemplating pulling it out. if I do that now, I can maybe get an ounce off of the plant
 

Jeffdogg

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yeah, after further inspection I've found a lot more bananas. I'm contemplating pulling it out. if I do that now, I can maybe get an ounce off of the plant

eww dont do that, just spray the effected areas (the buds with male parts) water/spray solution will deactivate the pollen bro, just try to keep humidity down and dont go spray crazy you'll be fine the grow is almost finished :weed:
 

po'thead

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eww dont do that, just spray the effected areas (the buds with male parts) water/spray solution will deactivate the pollen bro, just try to keep humidity down and dont go spray crazy you'll be fine the grow is almost finished :weed:

just plain water? or what do I need to put in it?
 

Ledhed

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There's a good and a bad side to this scenario. Well, bad and worse. The bad is yes it hermied on you and you can keep tweezing those nanners off, but you have to be very tenacious about it as they seem to pop up continuously and it's nearly impossible to find them all each day. I've done this for weeks at a time, every day going in with tweezers and inspecting and yanking the pollen sacks off. Pain in the ass it is. As far as watering to neutralize the pollen, not sure if it works unless the sacks actually open and attempting to disburse the pollen. Those sacks, nanners, are mother nature's way of protecting that pollen until they open up. I've always tweezed mine, never tried spraying the plants. The bad part of leaving them and trying the spray deal is, when you go to smoke your harvest, any pods you didn't tweeze off will give a nasty, and somewhat harsh taste when it burns. I hate the thought of ripping out a plant late in flower because of the nanners, so I try to REALLY stay on top of the plucking, as opposed to leaving them on and spraying with water. Better to invest a bit more time and effort every day, than to deal with the nasty taste of all that pollen after you harvest. The choice is yours, either way it sucks, but not as bad as ditching a nice plant late in flowering and close to harvest. Sorry about your luck here, hermies suck.
 

po'thead

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thanks for the advice, It turns out that all 5 plants went hermie. so there's no point in removing any. I'm just going to pluck the sacs and hope my buds aren't terribly riddled with seeds.
 

po'thead

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All 5 of them?! Damn! Did you stress em or something?

Yeah, I left town and put what I thought was trustworthy friend in charge of watering them. They apparently wilted like 3 times in the course of 10 days...I suspect this could be the cause.
 
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