Are "fresh" seeds okay to use?

I apologize in advance if this is an idiotic question. I have some seeds that are from some freshly cured bud. Pic is below if it helps but doubtful. My question is whether they are fine to germ and grow or do they for some reason need to dry out more.

I ask because I have great success with the good ole paper towel method. I just germed 6 out of 6 on some fem seed I got from Attitude. At the same time I threw down some of these seeds and none seem to have germed. A couple look like they may have but the root coming out is brown and hair-like. The other thing is that seeds don't seem to have of the tiger stripes or other markings I am used to seeing.

The seeds came off of plants that were clones of a herm (I'm pretty sure). So I am hoping I have a good bank of fem seeds off of it. I'm going to try a 12-12 from seed on some to see what turns out gender-wise (and get some quicker bud) while my Attitude plants (Critical yumbolt, Critical 47 and G13 Cheese) do their normal grow cycle.


The only thing I can think of is the seeds being overly fresh though that makes no sense to me, but many thigns don't make sense to me!

First pic is the seeds fresh out of teh bud. Second is the one that seems to have germed with brown hairlike thingee.

from herms bring herms

with the green calyxes still on the seeds, it's impossible to see whether the seeds are dark enough to be called ripe

I thought that since the clones came from a female mother plant who was abused and turned hermie, the clones would end up being hermie because they are the same plant, but their seeds should be female. Am I wrong?

monkeybones, the seeds are considerably lighter than what I am accustomed to as a guy who has picked seeds out of herb for decades... Below is a pic without the calyx. The three seeds are the ones in question. For comparison, the two darker are some bag seed that are quite I am used to seeing. Could you please elaborate on the color, age, etc for these seeds to be okay to germinate. Always eager to learn!

Dwezelitsame said:

from herms bring herms

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Only if it is a real hermaphrodite. If it was a female that was stressed into producing male flowers, then the seeds will be feminized and just as likely to produce male flowers as the parents under similar circumstances.

Most "hermies" are the result of growers using too much fert, or otherwise causing stress.


I have germinated seeds that were less than a week out of the bud, no problem.

GrowinDad said:

I thought that since the clones came from a female mother plant who was abused and turned hermie, the clones would end up being hermie because they are the same plant, but their seeds should be female. Am I wrong?

monkeybones, the seeds are considerably lighter than what I am accustomed to as a guy who has picked seeds out of herb for decades... Below is a pic without the calyx. The three seeds are the ones in question. For comparison, the two darker are some bag seed that are quite I am used to seeing. Could you please elaborate on the color, age, etc for these seeds to be okay to germinate. Always eager to learn!

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I don't see the mottle/stripes/etc that I'd generally tag to a seed that's truly ready or viable.. but the camera focus and lighting may have skewed my perception of that.

Unfortunately that's the best I can do with my camera. They don't have many of stripes/etc. There is some, but it is lighter than "normal" as is the base color of the seeds. But what makes a seed "ready". Do I need to wait a while and they will darken up?

If the seed is viable, it is viable. Germination rates go up with the seeds drying.

The last batch of fem seeds I made a friend could not wait to germinate them. He put 10 in pots outside and every one germinated.
When I make seeds I let the buds way over ripe so the seeds get huge. I think that helps with viability.

I have seen seeds that fell out of a bud, landed on a leaf and germinated after a rain storm.

Leave them to dry out for longer before trying to germinate. I tried to do the same thing and got no results... give them a little more time, plant something else in the mean time and by the next grow they'll be ready. You might still get results from lightly colored seeds. I pinch them to make sure they are viable... they will crush if they are not.

I have had about a 50% success rate of "fresh" seeds making it to the point of a viable plant. They germinate with a pretty good success rate >90% but some grow to about an inch tall and just dry up and die. Good luck....