Sour D popping hermies at day 58!
just put a crop of sour d in jars a few days ago with the same problem, bananas in the last couple of weeks of flower, with ideal conditions. from what i've read, selfing is just in the sour d's nature.
i pluck- you've got a day or two before that banana opens up to a swollen flower- and let 'er run until ten weeks and have had nothing but compliments.....
gave one guy an anxiety attack, it's so fierce.
i tried reverse and penetrator on half the last run, once a week before flowering and once a week after, and the whole crop had the same issues...still no seeds, though.
when you see the first male flower, you have about ten days until you cut, from my experience.
Sour D popping hermies at day 58!
^Good to hear... OK all you guys are starting to reassure me.
I didn't step back and realize there's only about 10-12 days left. Also, my new growth is moving REALLY slow... things never fully recovered from my root aphid infestation... so "nanners" that would normally mature and release in 2-3 days are probably moving a little slower for me. I was actually considering 77 days, but it sounds and looks like 70 will be plenty good!!
So, these banana-shaped male parts are actually the pollen sacks? The ones I've been plucking don't really seem to have anything inside of them... in fact they don't even seem hollow? Maybe I'm catching them pretty young and the pollen hasnt' fully formed inside (or they're less than normal potency since they're intersex).
Sour D popping hermies at day 58!
by the time those sacks are mature enough to drop pollen, it'll be too late for them to produce seed. only worry is if you are on perpetual harvest and leave them go extra long,. pollinating younger plants in the room.,
Sour D popping hermies at day 58!
i have a perpetual grow and have found one or two immature seeds scattered about, but i've picked male flowers off late-stage sour d, chiesel and white widow, and found exploded flowers that i missed on the sour d (sans the pollen trail i would expect to find from the flower) so who knows what's going on.
i can do without the chiesel and the white widow......
the sour d, however, can have all the tweezers time it needs.