Uh oh... do I have two hermies on my hands?

[jsn9333]

Here are some pics. I'll also post some more general pics of the plants below, but these first ones are of the "balls" I have found. The balls are on both my plants, all throughout the buds and in the nodes. If the plants are hermies, should I start ripping off as many balls as I can?

... or maybe I'll leave some, because I do need some seeds, to be honest. But if I get seeds from these plants, will they be mostly hermies themselves?

Any help would be appreciated... at least if you can let me know if these are pollen sacks.

Thanks!

jsn9333 Reviewed by jsn9333 on 09-05-2008. Uh oh... do I have two hermies on my hands? Here are some pics. I'll also post some more general pics of the plants below, but these first ones are of the "balls" I have found. The balls are on both my plants, all throughout the buds and in the nodes. If the plants are hermies, should I start ripping off as many balls as I can? ... or maybe I'll leave some, because I do need some seeds, to be honest. But if I get seeds from these plants, will they be mostly hermies themselves? Any help would be appreciated... at least if you Rating: 5

[jsn9333]

Here's more pics, but the ones above in the first post are of the potential problem areas.

[dooobster]

I don't see any balls, to be honest. I see a lot of swollen calyxes, and that's a good thing

[irydyum]

I have to agree with the Doobster. I don't see any balls on your plants either, I think what you may be mistaking for balls are VERY swollen calyxes that are isolated on lower nodes of the plant. How long have they been on there? Male flowers will open after about 10 days or so, so if they have been around longer than that and haven't opened, you should be fine. If you could give a better close up with the alleged nutsack, that would be good too.

[jsn9333]

They've definitely been there longer then 10 days. Phew! Thanks guys. I didn't realize that females grew things that looked like this. I guess they've gotten so big that I started thinking they were pollen sacks. But they are all single, and I guess pollen sacks would be growing in clusters anyway.

Thanks for the good news!