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[jmo124]

We've got a herm or something pollinating our girls but can't locate it!! Everywhere I look it's just gorgeous bud site after bud site with no sign of balls or nanners!! Is it possible our culprit is just one tiny herm node on an otherwise female plant?

jmo124 Reviewed by jmo124 on 10-16-2010. NEED EXPERIENCED INPUT We've got a herm or something pollinating our girls but can't locate it!! Everywhere I look it's just gorgeous bud site after bud site with no sign of balls or nanners!! Is it possible our culprit is just one tiny herm node on an otherwise female plant? Rating: 5

[canniwhatsis]

Late flowering hermies can be hard to spot.


Are you CERTAIN you have pollen? If so, HOW? Indoor or outdoor? (I assume indoor by the nature of the 2 threads you've started for this problem.)



Here's a couple pics of some of the hermie's I've dealt with.

Pic 1: The first nanner I spotted after excising the flower from the plant.
Pic 2: A little nug with nanners in it,... kinda hard to see it, but it's there.
Pic 3: Same nug after trimming off all the female flowers leaving just the hermi flower
Pic 4: The hermie flower by itself, You can see 2 nanners (pollen glands) and 1 Pistil.
Pic 5: Another flower from the same plant,... this one's a bit different with just one Nanner and 2 pistils.

Any Nanner if allowed to mature and open will produce pollen. Mostly its inert and won't actually create seeds (or so I've heard) I personally haven't been so lucky!

[jmo124]

Canni - those pics are very helpful. We just know there's pollen because we've spotted some seeds. Any experience with the resulting harvest's potency? Did you have a similar pollination problem to ours?

[copobo]

have you really spotted seed or just swelling calyx ??

pick one of those seeds and squeeze it - it it really a seed or just veg material?

picture?

[sammer]

Keep the seeds because they will be predominantly female. And i would think potency may be slightly reduced because energy is diverted to seed formation instead of trichome production, but who knows. How many weeks do you have till harvest?

[canniwhatsis]

Canni - those pics are very helpful. We just know there's pollen because we've spotted some seeds. Any experience with the resulting harvest's potency? Did you have a similar pollination problem to ours?

I wound up with about 200 seeds out of less than half an ounce of finished product (single small plant BTW )

As for the potency,... the plant got turned into shake after de-seeding it and what was left was as much a kick in the pants as any other harvest of that same strain. Perhaps slightly lower, but not enough to make a stink of it.

That harvest actually garnered me another patient! :thumbsup: and now I'm stuck in the position of expanding my grow...... sux to be me! :hippy:


CoPoBo nailed it tho,... are you sure they're seeds and not just swollen Calxys? I've seen plenty of calxys in many of my grows that fatten up but don't make seeds.

[jmo124]

pretty diverse garden in terms of indica/sativa mixes- about 2 weeks till harvest