Are they starting to hermi or am i okay as i am new this...

Johiem

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Your girl has gotten ahold of pollen from somewhere check your lower branches Really well. How old is she? Fem or reg? Breeder or bag seed? All this will have an impact on "herming". in that one little bud i didn't see any sacs so they would either have to be elsewhere on the plant or someone else is pollinating somewhere around you. Pollen can travel for miles and you may have brought some in on your clothes.
 

TGCM

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They're just over 4 weeks into flower and I've taken a couple of a couple of different plants and squeezed them and they're empty, so do you think they have hermi? And they're fem seeds and are called money maker strain
 

Johiem

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4 weeks in and all that orange? Those pistils should still be bright white. Those that have turned orange this early have either been damaged some way or have been pollinated somehow. They still look good but from those pics I see no intersex expression.
 

TGCM

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4 weeks in and all that orange? Those pistils should still be bright white. Those that have turned orange this early have either been damaged some way or have been pollinated somehow. They still look good but from those pics I see no intersex expression.
What does intersex expression mean? Also I've looked at other people's posts and they too have orange hairs at the same stage mate
 

Johiem

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Intersex expression is the forming of pollen sacs on a female plant. I abhor the term "herming". Most intersex expression is stress induced, be it light leaks, night cycle interruption, drought, insect and so many more possibilities. True genetic hermaphroditism is quite rare and what most people run into is premature rodelization.

I can go more into rodelization but, I'm starting to sound like a textbook, my apologies. Do a bud to bud search of the entire grow looking for male flowers if the haven't opened they'll be rounded at the tip and have a little stalk at the base. If they have opened there'll be a little star like flower with what looks like a tiny cluster of bananas in the center. These are active pollinators.
 

TGCM

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Intersex expression is the forming of pollen sacs on a female plant. I abhor the term "herming". Most intersex expression is stress induced, be it light leaks, night cycle interruption, drought, insect and so many more possibilities. True genetic hermaphroditism is quite rare and what most people run into is premature rodelization.

I can go more into rodelization but, I'm starting to sound like a textbook, my apologies. Do a bud to bud search of the entire grow looking for male flowers if the haven't opened they'll be rounded at the tip and have a little stalk at the base. If they have opened there'll be a little star like flower with what looks like a tiny cluster of bananas in the center. These are active pollinators.
Okay mate lights are off so I will check first thing tomorrow and take some more pictures and then you can see what you think, I have pulled a couple of them off and nothing has been in side thankfully and to be honest the pictures I have taken are the worst plant the others hardly have any of them and also the hairs are still nice and white
 

Boatguy

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Okay mate lights are off so I will check first thing tomorrow and take some more pictures and then you can see what you think, I have pulled a couple of them off and nothing has been in side thankfully and to be honest the pictures I have taken are the worst plant the others hardly have any of them and also the hairs are still nice and white
Stop worrying... Growing the plant to completion is more important than anything else.
If it is a herm, would you chop it with as much time as you have invested over the potential for some seeds?.... i would not.
I do toss early herms, but dont bother midway through flower. Just a personal grow here
 

FatherNelson

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Out of curiosity, how did they finish?

One of mine is oranging early and still throwing white hairs. I suspect either my last spray of
Neem or the peppermint spray I regularly use.
 

conor c

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Out of curiosity, how did they finish?

One of mine is oranging early and still throwing white hairs. I suspect either my last spray of
Neem or the peppermint spray I regularly use.
Moneymaker was greenhouses take on masterkush it used to be pretty ok id be curious how much its changed myself as well
 

FatherNelson

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Moneymaker was greenhouses take on masterkush it used to be pretty ok id be curious how much its changed myself as well
Lol sorry. I meant if his hermed, was pollinated, or other effects. I am running a different strain but Im showing orange earlier than I should. Im under the impression its due to my PM.
 
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