This is the story of Larry: the hermaphrodite.

ThorGanjason

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This is a story of Larry the bagseed, an innocent noble soul at heart who fell victim to fate and circumstance. Let me start from the beginning:

Larry's grower was a newbie, who was experiencing very slow growth in his early set ups, when Larry was a child. Here we have him pictured circa 1976 when Larry was two or three weeks old with some of his family: a few seeds from attitudes, mostly bag seed, and two tomatoes plants:
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Little did Larry know, he was predestined from the time he was a seed in a girls hand who smelled like petrulli, to become a member of a group of seeds who were to undergo various experiments, and environmental tortures. Some were intentional, some were not. He not only had to watch his brothers drop all around him, but he had to survive, himself, while doing so. It is rumored that an early loss of a northern lights x skunk #1 UFO freebie was actually, in fact, NOT due to over fertilization as earlier speculated, but instead a mere biprduct of Larry's cannibalistic tendencies as he attempted to survive.

But Larry hung in there. Even when times were hard, Larry tried to always keep his head high, and his leaves to the sky. Here's the poor ol chap again as a wayward lad. Little did Larry know, he was about to be tied down, his head beside his feet.
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Cut to the present. After spending some time on his back and suffering a new growers attempt at "redefining super cropping", Larry is back on his feet again, and even turned out to be female. His brother, who was the only other seed to be started the same time as Larry, has surpassed him in every way imaginable. In order to spite his owner for giving all of his attention to Mo, while Larry endured a lifetime of travesties and abuse, Larry decided to become a hermaphrodite:

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So what do you think? Has Larry truly betrayed his master? Has he gone Hermie? He wound up growing up to be such a lovely girl, with many tops....but it seems he has truly given up.

So, has Larry gone hermie.?
 

ThorGanjason

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I think you guys are right... Gotta admit, from the beginning of this all, if I could've picked one that I thought would Hermie first, it was him. I'm really hoping tho, that the reason he hermied is BC he's sitting right in front of the intake, which blows cold air from the air conditioner. So hopefully that's the stress that caused this, and I can keep the same thing from happening to my other plants.

But he has several tops, and there are nice buds forming up there. Can I get away with pulling the balls off? Or should I just get him out of there?
 

RIKNSTEIN

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Lovely story thor, it almost made me cry :cry:...not :twisted:...but hey good story anyway :eyesmoke:...and is it the same strain as the others? If it is I would put it in a seperate room and pull the sacs off and if you get a bean or 2 they are not always hermies....long story short I had a hermie caused by stress and it's sister clones where fine, I grew it and got a small handfull of beans and not 1 has hermied on me....but that may be an exception, IDK..good luck man....here ya go man some bud porn for ya...my last cure and my recent grow...
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ThorGanjason

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Holy shit ricknstein, that's fucking awesome. I hope my tent looks like that sometime lol. LGC, I think that's an old girlfriend. At least I thought it was a girlfriend at the time.

I'm gonna try and cut all the balls off... I'll take off whole branches/ tops if I have to. I can't risk seeds tho, I heard they kill the quality and I need this first one to be decent so I can recupe some of my expenses.

I really hope I'm right about the cold intake thing causing it. The air coming out of there is coooold right at the point of intake, and it was blowing right on Larry.

If the top buds have a ton of pistils are they okay? Or just BC the tops look alright should I be suspicious anyways?
 

RIKNSTEIN

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Holy shit ricknstein, that's fucking awesome. I hope my tent looks like that sometime lol. LGC, I think that's an old girlfriend. At least I thought it was a girlfriend at the time.

I'm gonna try and cut all the balls off... I'll take off whole branches/ tops if I have to. I can't risk seeds tho, I heard they kill the quality and I need this first one to be decent so I can recupe some of my expenses.

I really hope I'm right about the cold intake thing causing it. The air coming out of there is coooold right at the point of intake, and it was blowing right on Larry.

If the top buds have a ton of pistils are they okay? Or just BC the tops look alright should I be suspicious anyways?
That's just 1 of 4 rooms I use for different stages of growth...here's the same room but not so "close up" before flower..grow room 1.jpg

And ya I'd check all nodes up until the 4th week for sacs
 

ThorGanjason

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That's awesome. My girlfriend just found a house for rent yesterday, were supposed to look at it sometime, but hopefully I can have a couple rooms like that :). How much light is that?
 

ThorGanjason

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And BTW, I'm noticing some balls/nodules forming at the tops. My lights are about to cut on so I'll go take some pics here soon. I can't tell if its just how the bud forms, or if there are balls growing with all the pistils that need to be removed. If that's the case, then Larry is out of here.
 

RIKNSTEIN

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That's awesome. My girlfriend just found a house for rent yesterday, were supposed to look at it sometime, but hopefully I can have a couple rooms like that :). How much light is that?
In that room I have 2- 1,000w HPS/MH Raptors....I ordered 6 raptors and got a discount for ordering so many, they were around 400 a pc...

And ya if your top nodes look like a crown, it's a male...sorry
 

ThorGanjason

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Daaaamn, I thought my ballast was badass lol. I have a 400-600-1000w (plus turbo charged) galaxy sun select system. I was gonna get a hortilux bulb but they were out so I got a 1000 watt digimax. He also gave me a sweet deal on a magnum xxxl hood, it looks similar to yours. Is that what kind of hood you've got? I'm thinking of getting another duplicate setup and instead of using the tent, setting up a room.
 

ThorGanjason

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Also, based off of these pictures, how long do you think I have before i have to get him out? The females are barely growing pistils, really, so I assume I have some time?
 
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