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[grenum]

Can anyone tell me if this is a male flower forming on my princess?

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What do i do if this is so? just pinch them off?

Thanks!

[canadianhemperor]

It's a male pollen sac no doubt in my mind. What to do with it? Well it depends if you only have 1 plant remove the pollen sacs for as long has you can.You will probably have to harvest early.:( And if you have more than one plant remove it from the grow room. And if you cannot be 100% sure that the pollen wont reach your other healthy plants, throw it away! it's best if you want your other plants to be sensimillia. :thumbsup:

Hermies, too bad plant looks nice!

[Weezard]

Shure looks like it.

Yes, when you find just one or two snip them off and keep a close eye on her.
Should they start forming at the nodes though, isolate the plant and save the "feminized" pollen.

Then choose a baby-momma and make some feminized seeds, yah?
Lemonade!

Aloha,
Weezard

[canadianhemperor]

Shure looks like it.

Yes, when you find just one or two snip them off and keep a close eye on her.
Should they start forming at the nodes though, isolate the plant and save the "feminized" pollen.

Then choose a baby-momma and make some feminized seeds, yah?
Lemonade!

Aloha,
Weezard

I would not use that pollen. Because male pollen carries the genetic structure (dna) of the plant it came from to the next generation of seeds. it looks like part of the scenario that happened to Dutch passion and their blueberry strain that came from a cut of dj short. Bad dna from the clone caused problems in their version or maybe it came from the male (father) only dutch passion knows. Dj shorts blueberry version is more stable!

[DogtowN]

Can anyone tell me if this is a male flower forming on my princess?

What do i do if this is so? just pinch them off?



Wow! I was expecting to see some wee little nanner or something... that's a frikkin' monster! :eek:

Is it getting a proper dark cycle, no light leaks?

As already said, pinch them if you can. But, I think *that* one will be a whole lotta trouble. Watch it like a hawk!
Is this a bag-seed plant, or known genetics? If your environment is good, I wouldn't bother with any more of those seeds. :(

Good luck with it. Don't let her play with any other girls.

[Weezard]

You may be right.

Unless it's stress caused.
If only one of his buds on one of his plants has one pollen sack it is probably not a genetic error.

In this case, I would try it, and grow out the kids to see what we get.

I'd give good odds on Lemonade.

Aloha,
Weeze

[grenum]

Thanks for the info!! Much appreciated. I only have one plant, managed to find a seed in some chronic and after a year decided to give it a go. It's nearly 7ft now and has stopped growing upwards thankfully! The buds are now starting to fill. It's about 3 and a half weeks into flowering and that's the first sign of any sacs.

Anyway I have taken about three off the plant. There doesn't seem to be many on there. When i took them apart they looked just like a normal bud there were more sets of pistils inside, maybe a few more layers than normal which could indicate it's still very young male sac. I'm new to all this so I shouldn't really assume.

Here's the head, not the best but looks good!
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I want this baby to survive!! :-)

[canadianhemperor]

it's gona survive dont worry male pollen sacs dont kill plants, it's usualy growers that do that!

[Weezard]

Aloha grenum.

If you have a light meter go out and at night and check all around her for any light over .5 Lux.
Looks like she's out on a balcony, yah?
If so, just turning on your room lighting will stress her through the window.
I had put one of my girls out on the lanai for a PM quarantine.
Was puzzled to find a sack.
Then I went in to dinner and flipped on the dining room light.
Saw her out there grinning in the light. :)

Then I said D'oh!

Happens to da bes' of us, (or so I am told.) :D

Good luck,
Weeze

[grenum]

No light meters, i hadn't even thought about one!

Well, this could explain a few things... It's being moved around quite a bit to get the sun at certain times. It starts in the greenhouse and stays there if the weather is crap, if it's sunny then she has a day out. It's a bit of a pain lugging round a 7ft plant and i have to angle it through the greenhouse door, as the height is 7ft!. Do you think that could be the problem? Should it be kept in one place only?

Thanks!

[Weezard]

It's not the relocation so much as inconsistent dark periods that cause stress.
Cannabis is photoperiod dependent for flowering.
As the nights lengthen flowering begins. If they then see a shorted dark period, they try to veg.
Then the night gets long again, etc. you get the picture.
Turn on a light in the middle of it's night and your plant will see it as two very short nights.
Breeders will take advantage of this and purposely light-stress female plants to get XX pollen for feminized seeds.

Some strains are very sensitive to stress others can take a joke.
I once beat a bush like a red-headed step-chile' tryin' to get sacks.
Stayed all girl to the end.

Aloha,
Weeze

[grenum]

Thanks Weeze, that's brilliant! I was getting a little worried about the moving of that plant so there's that one gone :=)

I'll keep you all posted, thanks again to you all, lets see what tomorrow brings!

Cheers,
Grenum