Quote Originally Posted by jmo124
how big do the seeds look?
-fairly small I guess?

are the bracts split yet? pop a seed out, what color is it?
-most of them are green, the seedage doesn't look to be too bad from the outside (though I'm sure when we crack it open we'll find a lot) and the buds actually still seem to be getting fatter.

what color are the majority of your pistils?
-beginning of week 8: still some white pistils, most have turned though
doesn't sound like you have much to worry about. from the answers your provided those seeds sound very immature (beans can take anywhere from ~3-6 weeks to mature) so pollination didn't occur too long ago. i doubt you are going to find a bunch of seeds inside. if it was that bad they would be everywhere visibly.

if most of the pistils have changed from white that means that they are no longer viable. so all of those calyxes connected to those pistils cannot produce seeds (if not already pollinated of course). the pistils would have died back very quickly if you had a massive pollination.

i don't think you have any worries bro, you should be just fine.

Quote Originally Posted by Prodaytrader
maybe I am confused about how pollination works, but it is my understanding that every single one of those pistols is seeking a pollen drop and once that happens the plant quits producing resin. The resin is in an effort to get pollen to stick to it. For the all the plant knows there is pollen in the air but it keeps blowing away, which is why the plant continues to try harder and harder to produce resin in an effort to get pollen to stick to it. I suppose whatever crystals and resins that present will stay, but how can it continue to produce new resin? What do I know?

I dont think the bud is gonna be worth doing anything special with as it will be full of seeds. My hermied crop was not at all worth smoking so I cooked it.
the resin on a plant is not for catching pollen. it is a possibility that it might occasionally help, but the common consensus about resin is that it's to help the plant ward off bugs and to possibly help alleviate some of the UV that the plant receives. the pistils are responsible for catching the pollen. pistils are essentially straws, that catch the pollen and move it to the calyx, where the egg will be fertilized and the seed will grow until ripe and the bract split, and eventually the seed will fall out.

if a plant were to get massively pollinated it will stop producing flowers, as flowers' only jobs are to catch pollen (pistils/calyxes being part of the female flower). once the plant is pollinated there is no need to produce more flowers, as that part of it's life cycle is over.

i suppose it's also possible for a plant that's been massively pollinated to stop producing resin too.

think about it though, people will seed once branch of a plant and the rest is sinsemilla bud. the un-pollinated bud doesn't lack potency.

you ever get a bag of some top flight shit and find a seed or two in it? did the potency or quality suffer?


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