Newb to Possible Herm and What to Do?

AllDayToker

AllDayToker

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Hello guys and gals,

Well two of my three plants should their female sex the other day. One is clearly female. The other one has a small on each side of the node on each side of the plant, four total. These are placed as new established nodes. The next set of nodes have resin sacks and pistils.

My question is should I keep this other plant or will it affect my other female? Never dealt with a herm plant before so I'm lost and have a lot of work today so I can't research the problem myself.

Thanks for the help,
Ben
 
bostoner

bostoner

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I dont know if it is a hermi. I didn't really see you describe it as a hermie. Did you mean pollen sacks not resin sacks? Well if you sure it is hermied then no, you dont want to keep it. It will seed your true female and ruin the bud. They only way I'd keep a herm is if I was a week away from chop and I didn't have newly flowering plants in the room. It takes about 6 weeks to make viable seeds so its not like it will grow seeds in a week. With plants just starting to flower it will make a bunch of big energy sucking seeds and will kill you harvest. They only thing youd want to keep it for is pollen, but since it hermied right off the bat with minimal stress, you wouldn't want to pass those genetics on anyways.
 
AllDayToker

AllDayToker

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bostoner said:
I dont know if it is a hermi. I didn't really see you describe it as a hermie. Did you mean pollen sacks not resin sacks? Well if you sure it is hermied then no, you dont want to keep it. It will seed your true female and ruin the bud. They only way I'd keep a herm is if I was a week away from chop and I didn't have newly flowering plants in the room. It takes about 6 weeks to make viable seeds so its not like it will grow seeds in a week. With plants just starting to flower it will make a bunch of big energy sucking seeds and will kill you harvest. They only thing youd want to keep it for is pollen, but since it hermied right off the bat with minimal stress, you wouldn't want to pass those genetics on anyways.
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Yeah pollen sacks, my bad. But Thanks for the help, I think I'm just going to wait a few days, and post some pictures tomorrow for a better look.
 
BuddySkunk

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If it's a fag, bag it. Hermaphrodited plants are considered rare and are known to pollinate themselves which destroys the quality of the yield.
 
bostoner

bostoner

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Every plant has the ability to hermi so its not rare. In fact it's very very rare for a plant not to be able to hermi (Less rare in sativas but still under a tenth of a percent). Its a survival technique to perpetuate the species and the ones that wont hermi have a mutation which takes away this ability. Though a plant that hermis right off the bat isn't anything you'd want to keep so yea the advice is the same "bag it". Yea I'd wait a few days. I've see pistils get stuck inside the calyx before. If they start growing in clusters its a definite male, then kill it.
 
AllDayToker

AllDayToker

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bostoner said:
Every plant has the ability to hermi so its not rare. In fact it's very very rare for a plant not to be able to hermi (Less rare in sativas but still under a tenth of a percent). Its a survival technique to perpetuate the species and the ones that wont hermi have a mutation which takes away this ability. Though a plant that hermis right off the bat isn't anything you'd want to keep so yea the advice is the same "bag it". Yea I'd wait a few days. I've see pistils get stuck inside the calyx before. If they start growing in clusters its a definite male, then kill it.
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I'm like 99% sure that its a hermi, but its weird the balls aren't clustering, just two possibly three little balls around the newest established node. The new nodes are doing fine with pistils. I still got hope I'm wrong and going to let it go a while long. What I really need to know now is how long it would take for the hermi to screw my other plants. (No pun attended.) haha
 
bostoner

bostoner

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well pollen can burst in as little as a few days. In my experience its more like a week, week and a half from first fully developed balls. You can spray it with water to stop the spreading. Pollen that hits water is no longer viable and water itself will make it far less mobile.
 
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DJH@ZE

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BuddySkunk said:
If it's a fag, bag it. Hermaphrodited plants are considered rare and are known to pollinate themselves which destroys the quality of the yield.
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are you crazy hermies are fucking everywhere, like have you been under a rock or just now discovered cannabis or what
 
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DJH@ZE

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AllDayToker said:
hmmmm. Haven't heard that one yet, great tip thanks. Learn something new every day haha.
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sorry if i was jumpy i shouldve explained the reason there is hermies everywhere.it is all the feminized seeds being sold and then people take hermies and cross them with other females creating a seed crop of seeds that will either be female or hermies no males. you can also turn a female into a hermie with giberallic acid or messing with the light schedule
 
AllDayToker

AllDayToker

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supchaka said:
You went from 99% right to wrong in 2 days?
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Title says newb to hermie. Which means I am new to a hermie plant since I never had one, only males and females.

You could of easily not posted a thing and been an adult but I can see you are not capable of that. Your input was not needed and the whole issue is over with. Plus I'm happy I'm wrong it's a female and not a hermie.
 
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