What are these?

[ToKnoIsToGro]

Please tell me these are not balls about to sprout, but rather pods. They have been that way (slightly swollen (first picture)) for quite some time. The pistils have already sprouted and 2nd wk of flower. My friend is worried his plant might go hermie. He started using superthrive also.

[orangeman]

Dude chill lol, from the what I can see in the pic it looks 100% female.

[ToKnoIsToGro]

yeah, but unless it is a true female, there is the possibility of it going hermie, given certain conditions of course. Those bumps just look like they could turn into balls.

[orangeman]

yeah, but unless it is a true female, there is the possibility of it going hermie, given certain conditions of course. Those bumps just look like they could turn into balls.

Oh..lol I didnt notice those lol, yeah it's possible thats a hermie :-/ wtf, i've been seening alot of hermie pics around here lately..wtf are you guys doing to your plants!?

[ToKnoIsToGro]

on the other hand, they have been like that for a long time, and hopefully superthrive will keep it from goin herms.

[Shallow Hal]

lol.. those lomps at the base of the leaf are leaf nodes , ur plant is a female u can be sure of that , plant will turn hermie more likely from stress than anything else, a plant will even produce sum male flowers in a last dying act to pollenate itself towards the end of flowering. But take it from me thats a lady u have at the minute and unless shes turns into sum crazy PMT biatch and stresses herself to the max , she will remain that way.
ihope this helps
SH

[latewood]

If you see male pollen sacks, I don't yet...Superthrive won't do a thing for you, but make them grow faster...

you need to by some Dutch master reverse, and if you get reverse and spray your girl in time...then those balls might turn back to buddage...goodluck

[ToKnoIsToGro]

yeah, we check it pretty much evryday, but isnt superthrive anti stress?

[ToKnoIsToGro]

i believe it is, i also doubt those will turn to male pollen sacks coz theyve been there for the past 4-5 or so weeks. Just bulging. SH, when you say nodes, u think other fan leaves (fingers will grow from there?) I never heard of that, nodes growing between secondary growth and main stem. Then again, that does not nec. mean it does not happen.

[ToKnoIsToGro]

you said "lomps at base of the leaf", thats at the base of the secondary gowth stem, adj. to the main stem.

[GrowinGreen23]

look like spicules things to me every node has them, you will see what appears to be leaves coming out of the nodes but then one day you'll have clear/yellow loking things shooting out then it's a female

GG23

[latewood]

yeah...as long as each node has only 1 coming out...If they have been there 4-5 weeks(nice info to know up front, by the way) and are not growing into what looks like a bunch of grapes, then they are not pollen sacks.

[postmandave]

dont worry your ok it spicules as gg23 says you are fine and as latewood says.if it was hermie superthrive wouldnt do shit ,superthrive will allow the plant to take more stress before turning hermie but will not reverse the prosess you would need something like dutch masters reverse for that .the postman

[SkunkMe1]

what makes a plant go hermie, can anyone explain please ??? what kind of stress ( transplanting, over nuting, tying the fan leaves.... ) ??? wouldnt like to stress my plants. thanks

[Lady Vapor]

SkunkMe1 asks:
what makes a plant go hermie, can anyone explain please ??? what kind of stress ( transplanting, over nuting, tying the fan leaves.... ) ??? wouldnt like to stress my plants. thanks

Basicly a plant can go hermie if it's stressed due to:

Poor light
Under watering - but don't overwater either!
Temperature change - a drop from 75 to 45 for 12 hours can stunt it and stress it
Poor air circulation might do it too...

[ToKnoIsToGro]

spicules? is that synonymous with pods?
Thank you all for ur input.

[latewood]

read...you need to start reading...

[GrowinGreen23]

no it's not idk what they are used for exactly but i was told that it could be like grown out before the leaves come out so that the leaves have room to emerge and spread out, but truely idk

GG23

[ToKnoIsToGro]

latewood, fyi i have been doing plenty of reading. Not much about spicules though, just nodes, calyx, pistils, etc. Nor have i come across a picture similar to the first one, displaying the swollen joints.

[ToKnoIsToGro]

and by the way, do you mean stipules? those useless green little shits that are like whiskers, growing near where the preflowers come out?