Hermaphrodite! What to do?

[DaDuck]

I am on my first grow. I have four white widow plants that have been in the flowering cycle for four and a half weeks now. I was in there going over the plants tonight and discovered one of them is a hermaphrodite. I am 100% positive it is. This is my first grow, but I spent a lot of time researching this before I started, so trust me when I say I'm sure on this.
Now my question is this, can I just cut off the bud sites that have the little balls and let the rest of the plant grow as long as I keep a close eye out for any others? I hate to throw away a great plant, especially since the balls are only on a few of the flowers way down at the bottom of the plant. The other bud sites look great and are getting pretty covered in trichomes. Let me know what you think. I went ahead and pulled the plant out of my tent and put it in the closet so it is already seperated. I'm just trying to decide it's fate.

DaDuck Reviewed by DaDuck on 03-21-2010. Hermaphrodite! What to do? I am on my first grow. I have four white widow plants that have been in the flowering cycle for four and a half weeks now. I was in there going over the plants tonight and discovered one of them is a hermaphrodite. I am 100% positive it is. This is my first grow, but I spent a lot of time researching this before I started, so trust me when I say I'm sure on this. Now my question is this, can I just cut off the bud sites that have the little balls and let the rest of the plant grow as long as Rating: 5

[Rusty Trichome]

Sometimes a calyx's pistils don't pop-out, giving the appearance of being a single nanner. Usually, the pistils will eventually pop-out. Be damn sure this is not the case before you start killing your plant. (death by a thousand cuts)

Cutting single buds off as nanners occur, is adding more and more stress. If it really is a hermie, I'd ditch it before it pollinates your other ladies. Nanners can form in the buds themselves, too.

Segregating a plant in pollen doesn't do any good in the same house. Pollen can be transported on your clothes, blown around by fans and air conditioning...

[Brainy]

Gotta figure out why it's a hermie.. interrupted light cycle, stress, genetics? If your lower buds have many nanners she/he's gotta go. I have picked off singular nanners and finished the cycle until finished and the product seemed fine with 5-10 seeds in those lower buds. But the room needs to be well cleaned so no pollen is left behind to seed your next set of girls. Sorry to hear but at least you caught it quick. The male organs can develop and release pollen within 24 hrs. so keep checkn her daily. Make sure it is total darkness in the dark cycle. No light, Zero.

[eastbaygordo]

I had a thread along these lines and sure enough thanks to the input of everyone I was able to find the hermies on one of my ladies.
They seem to form where the plant doesn't get good light. in my case at the junction of branches near the wooden stake to prop it up. The buds seemed sparce and on closer inspection I noted a few balls.
I'm going to gicve them 48 hours of dark to pump of the resin in the buds and chop them.
I was thinking of re-vegging them but with balls I don't want to take a chance wasting money on males.

[DaDuck]

I'm trying to get a decent picture for you all to look at, but the adapter I need to plug in the media card to my computer is in the closet with my plants and they are sleeping right now lol. The lights come on in about an hour so I'll try to get some pics up then.

[DaDuck]

I was just looking the suspected hermie over and it looks like some of the little balls have pistils coming out of them. Also the pistils next to the little balls are the only ones on the plant that have turned orange. Is that normal? I'm starting to second guess myself a little now. It makes sense that this is a hermie though because when I first started flowering these plants this one developed a couple preflowers that looked like males so I cut them off. This plant matured a little quicker than the other ones too for some reason. Is there anything else that could resemble little balls that would pop up quickly on the bud sites? If so do you know where I can see some pictures?
I did look at a bunch of hermaphrodite pics and some of them do look pretty damn similiar to my plant.

[DaDuck]

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I know this picture sucks, but I can't get any of my cameras to focus close up. I even got my D70 out and couldn't even get a decent picture with manual focus. Hopefully somebody can give me some sort of a definitive answer with the pic and information I've provided.

[Vancefish]

I can't see any boy parts in there, but it is pretty blurry. Mine looked like this last week. They are not hermi at all,(at least lets hope not)

Check and see if your camera has a MACRO setting(usually looks like a flower). That being on might help you focus. :thumbsup:

[Brainy]

I see seed pods. If there are not any more male organs you should be ok except for any pollen left in your flower room. If you see more male organs than he/she needs to go! good luck.

[DaDuck]

I was wondering if they were seed pods. Believe it or not it's been a long time since I smoked. My dealer moved and since I got out of college I really don't know anybody else that sells any more. The solution to that problem is to grow my own lol. It does look like the little casing around a seed in a bag of pot though. It's been so long that I honestly can't remember exactly what they look like though. I'm going to work on getting a better quality picture.

Vancefish, all my other plants are pretty much at the same stage as those pictures. All my other plants look great. This one that I'm having issues with is the only problem. I've had doubts about this plant since I started flowering it. I thought it had single little balls on three different nodes when I started flowering so I cut them off. I've kept a close eye on the plant and these little ball looking things among the pistils just appeared suddenly. I can't imagine that they could have developed slowly without me seeing them before now. I'll go work on getting another pic. I sure as hell don't want this to ruin my crop.