what to do with a hermie

[lac status]

i have 4 plants and i got thems as clones flowering two and 2 weeks into budding they developed pollen sacs along with buds. What should i do? pick seeds off, continue budding. I also have the other 2 which i just started budding. Sacs also are only developing on lower buds.

[homgrowr]

pick male pollen sacs off before they open.

[MullManiac]

You sure the clones arnt off a male plant :p

[Garden Knowm]

hmmmmmm,,,

I would destroy the plant.. picking pollen sacks sounds risky

[MullManiac]

Double post

[lac status]

i kno they are female cause they have some great buds growing, but all of a sudden some pods formed. I picked them off and so far none have grown back. Still feeel a little uneasy

[litespeed]

Pubdate: 1947
Source: The Yearbook of Agriculture; 1943-1947, United States Department

of Agriculture
Author: H.A. Borthwick, USDA Senior Botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry,

Soils, and Agricultural Engineering
Pages: 282-283

DAY LENGTH AND FLOWERING - HEMP

Most rapid progress in breeding plants can be made with those that can be

self-pollinated. Hemp, obviously, can be self-pollinated only when it produces

these occasional additional flowers of the opposite sex. The advantage of

being able to increase their tendency to form these flowers is apparent.

Dr. Hugh C. McPhee of the Department made use of this behavior of hemp

several years ago.''' He used the pollen of the male flowers that were

produced in small numbers on certain of the female plants to self-pollinate

those plants. When he grew the resulting seeds he made the important

discovery that all of the plants were female. We have recently produced

several thousand seeds in this way and have not obtained a single male plant,

thus thoroughly confirming Dr. McPhee's observations'''.

Under greenhouse conditions, with proper control of temperature and day

length, a very high percentage of female plants produced enough male

flowers so that self-pollination could be effected, and in certain experimental

lots of female plants produced out-of-doors in late summer when days were

short and nights were cool, enough male flowers were formed so that natural

pollination occurred and a quantity of pure "female" seed was produced.

These results suggest that a locality can be found in which the conditions are

favorable to the formation of these intersex male flowers on female plants in

sufficient quantity that a good crop of seed could be obtained. If this could be

done, a means would be at hand to produce commercial quantities of :D

"female" seed, thereby enabling growers to produce a pure stand of female

plants. Such pure stands would result in a more uniform fiber crop and

eliminate certain harvest problems. The basis for developing such a

procedure lies in finding in nature a combination of environmental factors

similar to that which, under experimental conditions, has resulted in formation

of abundant male flowers.


http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTORY%20ARTICLES.HTML/1947US

DAFLOWERING.html


http://www.hempology.org/ALLARTICLES.html :D

[litespeed]

see how ez it is to Feminised your own seed pep... and they did it for you...

[Zandor]

You don't think we have learned anything more by now litespeed?

That was written in 1947 dude. In 1953 they printed a different version with different results and never even acknowledge the early work and it's flaws.

Hermies don't make Female seeds.

[BobBong]

You don't think we have learned anything more by now litespeed?

That was written in 1947 dude. In 1953 they printed a different version with different results and never even acknowledge the early work and it's flaws.

Hermies don't make Female seeds.

Yar! I smell a good FAQ coming on..

How do we get feminized seeds?

[Da1KrayzieThug]

There was a chemical you put on the plant or someshit that you get from another plant. I read about it a few months ago but I can't recall exactly. Plus there's that thing in the FAQ's section that says something about the hole part of the seed and how you can tell if its female or not. Supposedly 100% accurate.

[red662]

females produce what at first glance look like sacks but they turn into bud sites, i kept an eye on a couple 4 a few day, from the sack shape a single wisp of hair like stuff sprouted, then it turned in2 a little hairy bud site, is this what u r on about r is it a defo hermie??
id give it a few days, if the sacks r still green u have a while b4 they open so leave it a day r so an u will know 4 defo.
peace

[red662]

pick male pollen sacs off before they open.fact.
u cut of the pollen sacks an in a few days u will have 5 times the original amount. cuttin the sacks off is not an answer.
peace.
chech thcseeds, they have video help on sexin and also shows what happens when u cut the pollen sacks off. do a google 4 thcseeds
very helpfull

[lac status]

i have been pickin the sacs for a week now and they usually don't grow back in same spot. so iam in the clear. I know the seeds because i missed one and it opened up on me. For what they say pick and there will be double the amount i disagree from this expierence

[Zandor]

Yar! I smell a good FAQ coming on..

How do we get feminized seeds?
Bob I posted in the Advanced I think Soma's version of making feminized seeds. His methoid is about as easy as it gets. I can repost it if you like.

[Zandor]

Ok Bob I went ahead and made it into an FAQ

[abouttime]

you may keep up with picking those balls for a while, but when your buds get bigger the balls will start growing in the buds and by the time you find them they will be bright yellow...now its too late...SEED F*&%ED...and so are all your true girls growing with your transexual plant...not to mention your grow space if indoor you will have pollen waiting for your girls in you next grow...SEED F*&%ED AGAIN...

If you still want to keep it here is my advise. plastic off grow space for ease in clean up. keep pluck'in them nuts. watch the buds they will try to grow there too. you will end up with smaller buds but you can get some great smoke out of it. but it's alot of work. OH!!! keep it away from your real girls. GOOD LUCK

[BobBong]

Ok Bob I went ahead and made it into an FAQ

Great FAQ Zandor, thanks a bunch! with FAQ's like that hopefully we can reduce the amount of repeated questions.

:D yaaay for FAQ's.

[Zandor]

hmmmmmm,,,

I would destroy the plant.. picking pollen sacks sounds risky
It is tricky but a shop or house vacuum makes it safe & easy. FYI

snip suck snip suck it's like a vasectomy for your plant. ROFLMAO