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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
I've got a real dilemma on my hands I'm hoping I can get some advise. I'm on week six of flower I've got fire og's and blue dreams. I noticed on the tops of the buds on my tallest og's some bright yellow growth they literally look like yellow flowers after poking around thoroughly I've found what looks to be two tiny bannanas coming out of pistols. After looking at a million post of hermed plants All I see are pictures of balls and large brown bannanas but nothing similair to what I have going on. I guess my question is what the heck are these yellow flowers (guessing their male) and can I ride it out? Haven't seen anything on my dreams which look great and the lower growth on the affected og's look fine. Is it just really early in development? Should I expect seeds? Do I need to pull all my og's to save my dreams? (Super immature)my buddy suggested riding it out until I see more bannanas and the chop. Any helpful advise would be much appreciated.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Also I'm new to this sight, does it automatically notify you when there's a response to your thread? If not what's the easiest way to find it again. Sorry I'm sure that's a lame question
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Surely someone can help, I hate to chop down my girls unnecessarily
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Cant see anything in the pics. They wont let me zoom in either. Ill look through my pics and see if I can find the one with the nanner and post it for ya so you can compare.
I usually just click on new post(at the top of the page) and if someone has replied to a thread that you have participated in there will be a green arrow on that thread. The only notifications that I know of is like, rep, and pic comments.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Thanks for replying, is the image to small? I guess my biggest fear is it destroying the entire crop. As it is about 1/3 of all my tops of my tops have it and I'm guessing will be pretty much worthless. I estimate another three weeks to go, I'm going to try and push them as hard as I can but am I fighting a loosing battle?
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
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You should be able to click on it to get a better view. If it looks like what is circled in red, then its hermied. As to what to do with it, its all up to you. Some will try to pick off the nanners but this seems like an endless battle to me. If you can see them it usually means there are more that you cant see inside the bud. Some will cull them and get them the hell out of there before those nanners release pollen. Some will just ride it out and hope for the best. I would assume most will do this if its in the last several weeks of flower since the plants wont have time to produce seeds. Unless you are like me and have multiple stages in flower. I have no clue to the flower time on your strains so i dont know about how much time you have left. If it is a stressed female and not genetic, you could end up with some decent fem seeds but if it's genetics, I would try different seeds.
Regardless of what you decide, you need to figure out what made it hermie. Whether it be light leaks or screwed up temps, you need to find the problem and get it fixed. Your other girls will thank you for it. Good luck and hope this helps a little.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Thanks again for your help, they are both supposedly 9-10 weekers. As far as what caused it I'm sure it's genetic and I won't be using that clone again. Also had a stressful experience two weeks in which probably brought it out. I had to use bushmaster to stop them from stretching closer to the lights and used a product called bushload instead made by GH it was recommended to me by the guy at my hydo store. Anyway l used the same dosage as bushmaster per direction of the store and the label was impossible to follow as far as amounts per gallon. Turns out afterwards its eight times stronger....yikes!! Needless to day everything close to the lights got stressed hard and that happens to be where these flowers showed up first.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Maybe these pics will help show it better
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
It doesn't look like the picture you showed me, honestly the best way I could describe it would be tine yellow Daisy's growing out of the tops of my colas. I know that sounds weird but I don't see anything bannana shaped. Maybe it's just to early in its phase? You can see these flowers from like ten feet away so it's definatly obvious though its like an infestation if freaking Daisy's on my plants what the hell! My dreams as of this point look killer but I'm definitely nervous. Thinking I just push the crap out of em with nutes (they look really healthy right now) flush for a week and try to salvage what I can in seven weeks before seed can form. Might even use gravity to finish them. Hate to do it but going another 4-5 weeks sounds to risky. What do you think? Thanks again for your input
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
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Originally Posted by Jonnyappleseed80
It doesn't look like the picture you showed me, honestly the best way I could describe it would be tine yellow Daisy's growing out of the tops of my colas. I know that sounds weird but I don't see anything bannana shaped. Maybe it's just to early in its phase? You can see these flowers from like ten feet away so it's definatly obvious though its like an infestation if freaking Daisy's on my plants what the hell! My dreams as of this point look killer but I'm definitely nervous. Thinking I just push the crap out of em with nutes (they look really healthy right now) flush for a week and try to salvage what I can in seven weeks before seed can form. Might even use gravity to finish them. Hate to do it but going another 4-5 weeks sounds to risky. What do you think? Thanks again for your input
I cant see anything abnormal about those pics. Maybe someone will pipe in that can see something and help ya out. I'm trying to picture what you are explaining but I have no clue to be honest. If it doesnt look like the pic i posted or the other pics youve seen of hermied plants, I personally would just keep doing what you are doing until its their time to cut. I could be way wrong but i dont see anything in the pics that throw up a red flag to me. If you can zoom in on what you are talking about maybe that will clear some things up.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Are these any better? Are you unable to zoom in on them? I will agree its very weird
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
I can enlarge them a little but cant zoom in. Kinda blurry to me man. I dont have a clue to be honest.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Thanks again sorry about the blurry pics, how could I get more people involved? Should I post somewhere else?
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
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Originally Posted by Jonnyappleseed80
Thanks again sorry about the blurry pics, how could I get more people involved? Should I post somewhere else?
This is the perfect section for it. No need to make multiple threads. If someone knows they will speak up sooner or later. If no replies you can add a comment every couple days and itll bump it up in case someone missed it. Or add closer clearer pics of whatever you are talking about as it grows. Or you can try multiple boards like this one and maybe someone will pipe in.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
i saw this somewhere else. hard to tell from the pics. the closest thing i can see that you may not be sure of and again its hard to see but it could be the formation of a hashtip and maybe not.
got a microscope?
actually, look up hashtips on youtube there are only 2 vids one of them is really good and gives you a good look at them. see if thats what they look like.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Thanks man ill check it out right away and get back
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Wow man that would be awesome if that's what it is, anything but hermies! The only videos I saw they were white as purposes to toe ones on my plants are more light yellow but maybe their just in early development. They definatly stick out like the ones in the video. Do they look anything like male flowers to you?
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
well again the pics are fuzzy but from the one good shot you have i didnt see anything like a male flower. id say just ride it out and keep an eye on it.
i would think if it was a hermie you would probably find a few elsewhere on the plant. but they do weird things sometimes.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
as for the color those on the vids are under leds so they may actually be yellow you just arent able to see it because of the light.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
Thanks again for all the killer input, I feel a little better ill ride it out and post a few more pics in a week or two. Would these be similar to foxtails?
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
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Originally Posted by Jonnyappleseed80
Thanks again for all the killer input, I feel a little better ill ride it out and post a few more pics in a week or two. Would these be similar to foxtails?
ah anytime just hope im right about the hashtip as opposed to male flower. i suppose it could be the start of a foxtail, never actually seen one other than in pics tho.
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
ok i dl'd one of the other pics. if this is what youre talking about then yeah its really suspect. hopefully i made it big enough i can blow it up some if need be
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
How did you circle it in red, is that an app on your phone if so what is it and ill circle what I'm talking about its actually below what you circled about an inch down you will see what looks like a yellow dot. I checked again after the lights went on and they are definitely growing out almost branching out like horns where they are. I think what you circled is actually a fat calyx
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
ok crap i think Im spotting the beginning of seed growth. on the tops of the og's right in the middle tiny pointy green suckers, also the hairs on the tops affected seem dark brown red and are all layed down, almost a star like congregation of calyxes around them. when i pluck them with tweezers they are soft pods with little white soft things inside. does this sound like typical seed growth? found a few on the sides of buds as well but mostly dead center on the tops. They do have two orange hairs coming out of them ive never actually seen a male plant before son I cant be positive but thats my guess. Two days into week six on a nine week strain. Im not seeing any of this on my other strain in the room although I am seeing some brown hairs on some of their tops which makes me nervous. how bad can these ruin my bud if I let them develop? should I try to fatten them up for another week and then chop and hope for the best on my other plants that don't seem affected? I will try and take a picture but they are very small. HELP PLEASE! this is stressing me out
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Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem
without better pics its really hard to tell bro. the white hairs retract when they get pollinated and change color but they also change color normally as the flower stage progresses and they get near the end. you may well have had some rogue males pop in here and there.
if they have been hit not much you can do now. seeds never make us happy, unless that was the goal in the first place. they arent the end of the world, and it can still be killer.
i just used paint to edit the pics pretty easy stuff really. dont stress, it'll work out.