Proud Father of Two little Girls!!! Question for the Experienced Grower?

hermie...bummer. i'd keep the lst'd one; it will produce a greater yeild, pull of the male flowers as you see them to avoid a total seed plant. your beans will be useless, as they will all grow to be male or hermie.so your best bet is to discontinue or to work hard on one of them, keeping an eye out for those balls daily... i've done it, it can be done. just requires patience...

hope this helps sweetie

Just curious as to a possible cause to why they hermie? Could it be the fluctuation in temperature? I took great care of them, but living up north it gets pretty damn cold outside and inside. our thermostat is busted so you never know when the heater will kick on. temp fluctuates b/w 57-75 degrees. but thanks all for the response and i think i will try and keep one just to see what happens, after all this was a learning experience!!!! thanks to all who responded!

most bagseed is hermaphrodite; it's in the genes

The hermie can happen when the plant is stressed or forced to think that winter is coming before it is ready to flower. if the light hours change before pre-flower, then the plant is forced into a last minute rush to make seeds, considering if it were to happen in the wild, it would mean that most of the males would have already released their pollen. the plant goes hermie so that it can pollinate itself in a last resort attempt to reproduce. Good luck with those plants.

well, i think skarlet sky is on the right track, but i wouldnt say its in BAGSEED genes, most bagseeds are fine, or otherwise the buds would have little bananas dotted about, some plants have it imprinted in their genetics to hermie, if you tried to breed with a plant with that type of genetics, they would pass through to the next generation, making them hermie too, so even if you got any good seeds, they would be useless...

plants with hermie genetics are basically weeds, they reproduce too much, and then their offspring do the same, and you end up with loadsa shit plants that have no use...

just keep the one that isnt a hermie, unless they both are now...

good luck :)

I would take the smaller non-LST one. But I just think that plant looks better :) :stoned:

when you use bag seed to begin with you are probably more likely to have a hermie thats probably why that bag has seed to begin with as most do sex their plants however its easy to overlook a hermie especially in larger grows.

let me rephrase. it is a fact that most commercial bagweed, esp that from mexico is hermie. grown in outdoor, not so ideal conditions triggers it, then it gets spread by the birds and the bees, creating hermie bagseed.

it is a fact that most schwag seeds will have hermie traits. i killed one not too long ago, took cuttings to rehash. clones are three inches tall, and already growing balls again. so out it goes.