Hermie thread. NEED ANSWERS

[Mr. Clandestine]

Figured I'd bump this post instead of starting a new one.

Last night, I was reading through one of my grow books for like the umpteen billionth time, Organic Marijuana-Soma Style, and I came across something that I've somehow missed every time before. He briefly outlines his method for creating feminized seeds, and it doesn't include major stressors like gibberelic (sp?) acid, extreme photoperiod stress, etc. His method is to simply let his females mature an extra couple of weeks longer than he normally would, and says that this usually stresses them out enough to make them hermie. Then instead of letting it pollinate itself, he collects the pods and saves them to use on a much younger female at a later time.

Anyone have any feedback about this method?

Mr. Clandestine Reviewed by Mr. Clandestine on 03-12-2008. Hermie thread. NEED ANSWERS here are some Q's i got about hermies :rastasmoke: -when you hermie a female plant does the pollen from it spread to other female plants? -Are hermie seeds really %90 female or are they unstable and produce more hermie plants than it would male or female plants? -Is it just more worth it to grow a huge plant and just take female clones from that rather than bothering with hermieing? Rating: 5

[Rusty Trichome]

Well I, for one, have no patience, lol. Have heard of over-ripening, but feel that I'm lucky if I can let one get to the stage where the tricomes start to turn amber.

When stressing a plant to force the nanners, you'll likely end up with nanners buried in the buds too, where it's impossible to even detect them. The more mature the plant, the bigger the buds. Seems a long way to take a plant, to end-up with huge cola's and buds filled with little tiny popcorn seeds, (the ones that explode half-way thru a bowl) and pulling them out of really sticky buds sux bunches. :thumbsup:

[Mr. Clandestine]

When stressing a plant to force the nanners, you'll likely end up with nanners buried in the buds too, where it's impossible to even detect them. The more mature the plant, the bigger the buds. Seems a long way to take a plant, to end-up with huge cola's and buds filled with little tiny popcorn seeds, (the ones that explode half-way thru a bowl) and pulling them out of really sticky buds sux bunches. :thumbsup:

Yeah, I've been lucky enough to experience few accidental hermies... and I usually didn't even notice them until I broke open the buds, like you mentioned. I figured this might be less stressful than other methods, but I can see not being able to actually harvest enough pollen for it to really make much of a difference. I'm just brainstorming here, I've still got some time to kill before I try it. :jointsmile:

I won't be feminizing my current crop, because I'm not entirely sure about the genetics. Got these seeds from a friend, not a seedbank. I appreciate the feedback, as always!

[Weedhound]

Oh you definitely would want to stress the plant early and give it plenty of time to grow out good complete seeds instead of those "pip" things.