Help got Hermie's !!

so out of all my plants (purple kush) aprox. half of them have turned hermie on me. I've got a couple grows under my belt but this is the first time I've had to deal with this. the plants are 4 1/2 weeks into flower so they only have like 3 1/2 weeks left till harvest. I had a good friend who is a more experienced grower come over and take a look at what's going on and he said that I "MAY" be able to just let them go since I'm so far allong but he was'nt totaly sure. so what do you all think I should do ? and how long dose the whole fertilization process take before seed starts to show ? also if anyone has links to info on this please post them for me to check out. oh yea I'm not totaly up on all the "stages" (if there are any) of the whole hermie thing but right now I just have "bananas" poppin up in the bud...

Thanks

Hey, same thing happened to me. When my bannanas poped out, the didn't look viable. The only one that got polinized was one that i kept fucking with so it dropped the pollen.

Can you pick them off w' tweezers?

yea my friend also mentioned the tweezers....man that will be a major PITA if I need to do that, I have 50 plants (two medical cards worth) and I just looked again now that the lights are on and it is more like only a couple DON'T have "bananas".. :mad:

here is a pic of one of the "infected" buds. you can alomst see the bananas in this pic but but my camera dos'nt like the lighting in the room and it's realy hard to get a good pic but I thought what the hell...LOL...

come on someone has to know what I should do. what will happen if I just let things go ??

What to do is, use tweezers to carefully remove the bananas, then hope not too much if any of the pollen falls. If you can get to the male bits early enough they wont even have formed pollen yet.

The second thing to do is watch for seed development, squeeze the buds a bit to see if they are forming in there, if there werent many bananas you wont get all that many seeds if u let them go the whole flower. Its a bitch to watch for male flowers everyday but to ensure mainy sensi its worth the effort.

PS Have u found the reason for your hermies?

no hav'nt found any reason...the only thing I can think of is that is was in the plant already. more than likely bad supply of clones when I recieved the clones there were problems with them from the start so who knows...I honestly don't think it was/is anything that I have done that caused this.

Just the thought of getting hermies on my very first grow (few weeks in) makes me sick to my stomach. I hope you get this problem fixed, and I am curious to see what other people say can be done for this problem as I may face it in the future.

yea we can only hope that all our grows are problem free....

so nobody has any thing on how long the fertilization cycle takes before seed starts to form?

I'm very curious to hear about this also. VERY. I will tell you why soon in my thread...:(


Someone tell us how long it takes to "create" the seed after pollination...

I'm sure Bear or Stinky should know...and I could probably find out doing a search, but I'm hungry, so I'll do that when I get back if we havent heard anything.

Bummer about the hermies, man. Friggin' bummer.

:rastasmoke:

TGF

dude, the seeds will start forming in a couple of days. I watcvhed it hapen in mine. The bannanas that popped out late in my flower looked somewhat brown and shriveled. I think only a few had polln that worked. Are the bananas copming out of your nugs nice and green or somewhat lame looking.

The seeds start forming in a couple of days after polinization. From there the seed will start forming. I am not exactly sure how long it takes to get a mature seed developed, but surely you will have some premie seeds in t he weed. Thats what happened to mine. They had some seeds, but they were severely underdeveloped.

Heres what I'd do, and you will probably do anyway because such a large amount of your crop hit the shits.

Pick off what you can. What you see. And then just wait. Do you really wanna

thanks, that's prety much what I wanted to know.

the ones coming out of my nugs are prety much a yellow color. I've never seen them before so hearing people call them bananas realy was the key to me knowing what they were since they look basicly like small bananas...

yea I'm going out tonight when the lights come on and start pickin bananas...LOL

Hey. Dutchmaster Reverse. It honestly works. I didnt believe it but it works. Had the same thing happen on a grow. About 1/3 had bananas. Sprayed them twice, about a week apart. No seeds or anything despite 30 plants being packed into a 5x5 area with a lot of air and movement.

If you do plug them by hand, lightly spray them so the pollen doesnt go everywhere if you bust one open. But seriously. Everyone I have talked to has had good or great results with the Reverse. I now use it as a precaution when they go into flowering.

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Originally Posted by razzapiggy

Just the thought of getting hermies on my very first grow (few weeks in) makes me sick to my stomach. I hope you get this problem fixed, and I am curious to see what other people say can be done for this problem as I may face it in the future.

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2 of 4 are hermis for me on my first grow. But i couldn't care less, even if it has a few seeds (pulling all male flowers off 2 plants isn't THAT big of a job...kinda) it will still be better than the schwag i've been smoking on for awhile. I'd rather get hermis my first grow than my 2nd once i use bought seeds :)

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Originally Posted by Racerx

Hey. Dutchmaster Reverse. It honestly works. I didnt believe it but it works. Had the same thing happen on a grow. About 1/3 had bananas. Sprayed them twice, about a week apart. No seeds or anything despite 30 plants being packed into a 5x5 area with a lot of air and movement.

If you do plug them by hand, lightly spray them so the pollen doesnt go everywhere if you bust one open. But seriously. Everyone I have talked to has had good or great results with the Reverse. I now use it as a precaution when they go into flowering.

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Did you buy that Penetrator stuff it says you should use with the Reverse? Or does it work without it?

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Originally Posted by Racerx

Hey. Dutchmaster Reverse. It honestly works. I didnt believe it but it works. Had the same thing happen on a grow. About 1/3 had bananas. Sprayed them twice, about a week apart. No seeds or anything despite 30 plants being packed into a 5x5 area with a lot of air and movement.

If you do plug them by hand, lightly spray them so the pollen doesnt go everywhere if you bust one open. But seriously. Everyone I have talked to has had good or great results with the Reverse. I now use it as a precaution when they go into flowering.

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hey thanks !! I'll have to see if my local shop has any.

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Originally Posted by Racerx

Hey. Dutchmaster Reverse. It honestly works. I didnt believe it but it works. Had the same thing happen on a grow. About 1/3 had bananas. Sprayed them twice, about a week apart. No seeds or anything despite 30 plants being packed into a 5x5 area with a lot of air and movement.

If you do plug them by hand, lightly spray them so the pollen doesnt go everywhere if you bust one open. But seriously. Everyone I have talked to has had good or great results with the Reverse. I now use it as a precaution when they go into flowering.

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hello racerx do u have a link to get some of that?

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Originally Posted by TheGreenFog

I'm very curious to hear about this also. VERY. I will tell you why soon in my thread...:(


Someone tell us how long it takes to "create" the seed after pollination...

I'm sure Bear or Stinky should know...and I could probably find out doing a search, but I'm hungry, so I'll do that when I get back if we havent heard anything.

Bummer about the hermies, man. Friggin' bummer.

:rastasmoke:

TGF

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hey f<r>og, once the pistils are pollenated, they'll turn red/brown within 24 hours. it generally takes 5-6 weeks for a seed to mature, though it can vary with conditions and strains. if you are trying to harvest seeds, it is recomended that you wait for a late harvest (70-90% of trichs turn amber) though i don't wait that long. i harvest when trichs are 50-50...

love, kp:p

soon i'll have pix for you fog.... don't forget about my strain study...

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Originally Posted by kindprincess

hey f<r>og, once the pistils are pollenated, they'll turn red/brown within 24 hours. it generally takes 5-6 weeks for a seed to mature, though it can vary with conditions and strains.

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This is true. Your plants are too far along in flowering to worry about it much. You probably won't notice any difference in thc levels and the seeds will be immature.

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Originally Posted by Splifted

Did you buy that Penetrator stuff it says you should use with the Reverse? Or does it work without it?

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You need to use something that helps the leaves absorb it. I used something similar to Penetrator that isnt so expensive and is more concentrated. Both the Dutchmaster Penetrator and Reverse are already diluted so you dont add water. But Im sure even without anything its better then nothing. Just dont do it within 3 weeks of harvest if you can avoid it. If you get hermies 3 weeks before harvest they probably wont have time to develop into anything.

Hermies can come from a variety of reasons like light leaks, inconsistent lighting schedules, wide temperature and humidity fluctuations, high temps, bad strain, stress, etc.

so right now I'm looking at about 3 1/2 weeks till harvest so you guys would say just let it go ? I don't think any of the sacks have opended up yet ,I'm assuming that once it opens up the "banana" will be "split" open right ?

so I picked up some Reverse and Penetrator and sprayed my plants, well half of them anyway that little bottle dos'nt go very far, need to get more tomarrow...I figured I'd try it since I'm probably going to try and let these go a little longer to color up nicely...