hermie...help!

It looks like I may have a hermie...

The main stem top is still actively growing the white hairs (i'm on a week and a 2 days of flowering) but a lot of the side branches are growing balls...lots of em...

Since I can look at these every day, is there anything I can do to keep it from polinating? Can I keep track of and prune all the stems that are coming out with the male flowers?

Its my first grow, they are just various bag seed, and my other 3 females (all sativas) appear to be 100% female, with 3 plants still to show (1 sativa and 2 indicas)

Anysuggestions? Kill it? keep the female part going (and how?)

help...

An hermaphrodite, or hermie, is a plant of one sex that develops the sexual organs of the other sex. Most commonly, a flowering female plant will develop staminate flowers, though the reverse is also true. Primarily male hermaphrodites are not as well recognized only because few growers let their males reach a point of flowering where the pistillate would be expressed.

Hermaphrodites are generally viewed with disfavor. First, they will release pollen and ruin a sinsemelia crop, pollinating themselves and all of the other females in the room. Second, the resulting seeds are worthless, because hermaphrodite parents tend to pass on the tendency to their offspring.

Please note that occassionally specious staminate flowers will appear in the last days of flowering of a female plant. These do not drop pollen and their appearance is not considered evidence of deleterious hermaphroditism.

Here's an image of a hermaphrodite, specifically a female plant with staminate flowers.




Hermaphrodite photograph above by Ot1.




Hermaphrodite pics above by snoofer

i think you got a 100% male there, the chances of getting a true hermie from seed are kinda slim, but yea chop it, even hermies will pollinate your other girls.

Not 100% male. See the pics of the main staulk.

Crap...ok, it's gone.

yep, man that sucks bro

1st grow live and learn right?

you can pick off the male parts with tweezers if you dont wanna lose it

this reminds me of my first grow, cept i only had one plant using dinky cfls, and it turned out to be a natural hermie. the fucked up shit is that the he/she showed me white hairs at first and you know how pumped you are about your first, i was so excited. couple nights go by and boom balls. talk about some unluckey shit, cant even describe how mad i was lol.

n00bfarm said:

Not 100% male. See the pics of the main staulk.

Crap...ok, it's gone.

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thank you. i have the same thing here. i was going to let it grow out so i could get some pics. but now i've seen yours. now i can kill it. thanks again.

sorry about your hermy.

more beans please !

Dude you hit right on there...it WAS the first to show the hairs...and what was so sweet was that it was only 2 days into flowering...God what do you think the chances any others will be??? What if my other fems were from the same bag...
OMFG ...thats it. I changed my avatar...