Oh no,a hermie

So it finally happened to me and I have a hermie in my cabinet grow with my 4 other plants. They are 3 weeks into flower and I have just been picking the balls off of it but it's still cause for concern because I don't wanna ruin my crop. I' don't really heave any other place to put it but I don't wanna scrap the plant it looks real healthy and should have a decent yeild. My question is will it keep pumping out balls or will it stop event? Any advice?

420noobie said:

So it finally happened to me and I have a hermie in my cabinet grow with my 4 other plants. They are 3 weeks into flower and I have just been picking the balls off of it but it's still cause for concern because I don't wanna ruin my crop. I' don't really heave any other place to put it but I don't wanna scrap the plant it looks real healthy and should have a decent yeild. My question is will it keep pumping out balls or will it stop event? Any advice?

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Cut that hermie bish down ASAP. It's not gonna get any better, trust me. I've dealt with hermies many many times. Miss one or two nanners and they bust open, say good by to ALL your non hermied plants.

KILL KILL KILL the he-bishes immediately.

DemonTrich said:

Cut that hermie bish down ASAP. It's not gonna get any better, trust me. I've dealt with hermies many many times. Miss one or two nanners and they bust open, say good by to ALL your non hermied plants.

KILL KILL KILL the he-bishes immediately.

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+1

If she's popping out balls like you say get rid of her. It's not worth the risk of missing one or more and losing your sensimilla bud.

I pulled it out today's transplanted it into a separate box. The guy I got the plant from told me today that I should let it finish and save the pollen as its a f1 hybrid and will produce feminized seeds. (he has done this) so, I am going to cross it with Nirvana northern lights and use those seeds next year. I spotted 4 small balls I haven't picked off yet so hopefully they will provide me with some quality pollen thanks for the advice

Hermie pollen = more hermie plants

420noobie said:

The guy I got the plant from told me today that I should let it finish and save the pollen as its a f1 hybrid and will produce feminized seeds. (he has done this)

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no he didn't (produce fem seeds)

420noobie said:

so, I am going to cross it with Nirvana northern lights and use those seeds next year.

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please don't

420noobie said:

I spotted 4 small balls I haven't picked off yet so hopefully they will provide me with some quality pollen thanks for the advice

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they won't. kill it.

Seeds and pollen from hermies will more likely produce more hermies

ChemPro said:

Seeds and pollen from hermies will more likely produce more hermies

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Even if the plant turns herm by induced stress?

Yes
It wasn't too stable to begin with.

420noobie said:

Even if the plant turns herm by induced stress?

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Oh yes. Here's why. The number one goal of the plant is to reproduce. The plant experiences stress in response to the environment (holy shit, I'm getting attacked, I need to hurry up and get pregnant and pass on my genes before I die). The quickest way in the absence of a male is to go hermie and self pollinate. The plant doesn't know that you broke a branch and will never do it again. As far as the plant is concerned it is living in a hostile environment and it needs to rethink its genetic strategy in order to adapt. It loses genetic diversity by self pollinating but the trade off is that it gets to live on. And if it was necessary to self pollinate in order to survive then the plant will pass along that propensity to self-pollinate to its offspring.

420noobie said:

Even if the plant turns herm by induced stress?

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Hermie is hermie wether stressed induced or not I've had some strains I chopped off almost all its branches still didn't hermie that's the kindve plant you want