Hermies

Im doing a dep grow everything is going good 2 weeks into flower , had some really cold unexpected nights and notice my plants are growing some weird large calyxes and some balls too been picking then off , sprayed florel to make them reverse but now the sugar leaves are kind off droppy but big fan leaves are pointing up...

You're fine. Too much florel will do that. The leaves may or may not stand up right again. But its not gonna slow or diminish harvest. You just need a fine mist on the plants not large water droplets. In my deps 40'x8' beds, 150-200 plants I would use about 1/2 gallon with no droop. One gallon florel mixtire per dep would cause droopy leaves.

Joany.p29 said:

Im doing a dep grow everything is going good 2 weeks into flower , had some really cold unexpected nights and notice my plants are growing some weird large calyxes and some balls too been picking then off , sprayed florel to make them reverse but now the sugar leaves are kind off droppy but big fan leaves are pointing up...View attachment 5125833

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She's got balls. That's what I'd call a true hermaphrodite. Different than nanners.

PadawanWarrior said:

She's got balls. That's what I'd call a true hermaphrodite. Different than nanners.

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I open the little balls and have like tiny bananas inside of the balls

Red Hard Head said:

You're fine. Too much florel will do that. The leaves may or may not stand up right again. But its not gonna slow or diminish harvest. You just need a fine mist on the plants not large water droplets. In my deps 40'x8' beds, 150-200 plants I would use about 1/2 gallon with no droop. One gallon florel mixtire per dep would cause droopy leaves.

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Thank you for the respinse so maybe I use a little to much I made a 8 gal sprayer and had 2 gal left over for only 130 plants. But nothing bad will happen right also notice there is not more balls coming out .

Lol. Yeah too much applied! No nothing bad will happen. The pollen sacs will dry up, the pollen will be sterile -no seeds. If some pollen was released before the ethephone treatment the seed development is immediately stopped. You need to stay on a weekly treatment though up to close to harvest. In my experience once that type of herm happens a single treatment does not stop it.

A Fine mist. You're not applying the florel like for mites or PM.

Red Hard Head said:

Lol. Yeah too much applied! No nothing bad will happen. The pollen sacs will dry up, the pollen will be sterile -no seeds. If some pollen was released before the ethephone treatment the seed development is immediately stopped. You need to stay on a weekly treatment though up to close to harvest. In my experience once that type of herm happens a single treatment does not stop it.

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How do you know the pollen is sterile?

Red Hard Head said:

Lol. Yeah too much applied! No nothing bad will happen. The pollen sacs will dry up, the pollen will be sterile -no seeds. If some pollen was released before the ethephone treatment the seed development is immediately stopped. You need to stay on a weekly treatment though up to close to harvest. In my experience once that type of herm happens a single treatment does not stop it.

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I thought something bad was going to happen lol . So it wont cause the plant to stop yielding and wont lower yield . So stay spraying every week with florel and light misting right all the way to the last few weeks before harvest . I mixed 30mil per gal and using a coco agent .

Joany.p29 said:

I thought something bad was going to happen lol . So it wont cause the plant to stop yielding and wont lower yield . So stay spraying every week with florel and light misting right all the way to the last few weeks before harvest . I mixed 30mil per gal and using a coco agent .

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Oh, I missed the part where you sprayed shit and wanted it to produce pollen. My bad,

Red Hard Head said:

A Fine mist. You're not applying the florel like for mites or PM.

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Ok thnk you ill keep u pósted

PadawanWarrior said:

Oh, I missed the part where you sprayed shit and wanted it to produce pollen. My bad,

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I'm confused by this post. I might be slow. "I sprayed to reverse" "I've been picking off the balls"

Fill me in. Why are we trying to reverse and then picking the reversed pollen sacs off?

I think I might be misunderstanding this post.

VincenzioVonHook said:

I'm confused by this post. I might be slow. "I sprayed to reverse" "I've been picking off the balls"

Fill me in. Why are we trying to reverse and then picking the reversed pollen sacs off?

I think I might be misunderstanding this post.

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I know. Now they're confused. My sock radar is going off,

VincenzioVonHook said:

I'm confused by this post. I might be slow. "I sprayed to reverse" "I've been picking off the balls"

Fill me in. Why are we trying to reverse and then picking the reversed pollen sacs off?

I think I might be misunderstanding this post.

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I dont want hermies I want flowers so they were flowering nicely , but I had lower unexpected nights and few growers around had same problem plants got stressed and started producing balls ,. So I sprayed florel to treat my plants and stop being hermies .

PadawanWarrior said:

How do you know the pollen is sterile?

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Real world and research. The dep I treated I ended up removing all pollen sacs by hand after the first application. Didnt have patience to wait. A moderate amout of pollen was released during that session.

I continued to treat weekly in the hermie dep. But not manual removal of pollen sacs, but still some would sneak thru and open. There was tiny tiny white empty "seeds" in the older calyxs but nothing more mature than that. Likely from the very first nanners before the first treatment. I would even take buds during flower and break them down looking for seeds, fearing beans in the duff of a turkey bag. But never found any.

I harvested the 2nd dep, which wasnt flipped till the 3rd florel treatment in the hermie dep. It was 3 feet away, both deps with sides up. This run did not need florel. No seeds were found drying, bucking, or trimming out of the second dep house. Not even the little white ones when rolling a joint.

Empirical evidence is not enough for me at times when I dont understand it. The literature and research published of using ethephone said that in some crops sterility of the pollen may happen among the other things it does to plant flowering processes and embryo development.

PadawanWarrior said:

I know. Now they're confused. My sock radar is going off,

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I came for help and options not for stupid coments

Joany.p29 said:

I came for help and options not for stupid coments

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You sprayed Florel to make them reverse, and you wonder why they have balls? Common man. You can't be for real. I'll just see myself out now.

PadawanWarrior said:

You sprayed Florel to make them reverse, and you wonder why they have balls? Common man. You can't be for real. I'll just see myself out now.

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I sprayed florel cuz I wanna stop hermies ... florel is like switch. .I want females no pollen sacks

PadawanWarrior said:

You sprayed Florel to make them reverse, and you wonder why they have balls? Common man. You can't be for real. I'll just see myself out now.

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You...might be too high. The original post doesn't say that. Florel isn't a good choice for sex reversal in cannabis. It wont induce male flowers on an otherwise normal female plant. My over spray in the treated dep went on to A-OK G33s. I treated those the next day after reading how it stops seed development.