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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.
pick male pollen sacs off before they open.
You sure the clones arnt off a male plant :p
hmmmmmm,,,
I would destroy the plant.. picking pollen sacks sounds risky
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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
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%20HISTO...ES.HTML/1947US
DAFLOWERING.html
http://www.hempology.org/ALLARTICLES.html :D
see how ez it is to Feminised your own seed pep... and they did it for you...
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..Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandor
How do we get feminized seeds?