Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem

[Jonnyappleseed80]

I've got a real dilemma on my hands I'm hoping I can get some advise. I'm on week six of flower I've got fire og's and blue dreams. I noticed on the tops of the buds on my tallest og's some bright yellow growth they literally look like yellow flowers after poking around thoroughly I've found what looks to be two tiny bannanas coming out of pistols. After looking at a million post of hermed plants All I see are pictures of balls and large brown bannanas but nothing similair to what I have going on. I guess my question is what the heck are these yellow flowers (guessing their male) and can I ride it out? Haven't seen anything on my dreams which look great and the lower growth on the affected og's look fine. Is it just really early in development? Should I expect seeds? Do I need to pull all my og's to save my dreams? (Super immature)my buddy suggested riding it out until I see more bannanas and the chop. Any helpful advise would be much appreciated.

Jonnyappleseed80 Reviewed by Jonnyappleseed80 on 01-17-2013. Help please! Dealing with a weird hermie problem I've got a real dilemma on my hands I'm hoping I can get some advise. I'm on week six of flower I've got fire og's and blue dreams. I noticed on the tops of the buds on my tallest og's some bright yellow growth they literally look like yellow flowers after poking around thoroughly I've found what looks to be two tiny bannanas coming out of pistols. After looking at a million post of hermed plants All I see are pictures of balls and large brown bannanas but nothing similair to what I have going Rating: 5

[Jonnyappleseed80]

Also I'm new to this sight, does it automatically notify you when there's a response to your thread? If not what's the easiest way to find it again. Sorry I'm sure that's a lame question

[Jonnyappleseed80]

Surely someone can help, I hate to chop down my girls unnecessarily

[pushit]

Cant see anything in the pics. They wont let me zoom in either. Ill look through my pics and see if I can find the one with the nanner and post it for ya so you can compare.

I usually just click on new post(at the top of the page) and if someone has replied to a thread that you have participated in there will be a green arrow on that thread. The only notifications that I know of is like, rep, and pic comments.

[Jonnyappleseed80]

Thanks for replying, is the image to small? I guess my biggest fear is it destroying the entire crop. As it is about 1/3 of all my tops of my tops have it and I'm guessing will be pretty much worthless. I estimate another three weeks to go, I'm going to try and push them as hard as I can but am I fighting a loosing battle?

[pushit]

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You should be able to click on it to get a better view. If it looks like what is circled in red, then its hermied. As to what to do with it, its all up to you. Some will try to pick off the nanners but this seems like an endless battle to me. If you can see them it usually means there are more that you cant see inside the bud. Some will cull them and get them the hell out of there before those nanners release pollen. Some will just ride it out and hope for the best. I would assume most will do this if its in the last several weeks of flower since the plants wont have time to produce seeds. Unless you are like me and have multiple stages in flower. I have no clue to the flower time on your strains so i dont know about how much time you have left. If it is a stressed female and not genetic, you could end up with some decent fem seeds but if it's genetics, I would try different seeds.

Regardless of what you decide, you need to figure out what made it hermie. Whether it be light leaks or screwed up temps, you need to find the problem and get it fixed. Your other girls will thank you for it. Good luck and hope this helps a little.

[Jonnyappleseed80]

Thanks again for your help, they are both supposedly 9-10 weekers. As far as what caused it I'm sure it's genetic and I won't be using that clone again. Also had a stressful experience two weeks in which probably brought it out. I had to use bushmaster to stop them from stretching closer to the lights and used a product called bushload instead made by GH it was recommended to me by the guy at my hydo store. Anyway l used the same dosage as bushmaster per direction of the store and the label was impossible to follow as far as amounts per gallon. Turns out afterwards its eight times stronger....yikes!! Needless to day everything close to the lights got stressed hard and that happens to be where these flowers showed up first.

[Jonnyappleseed80]

Maybe these pics will help show it better

[Jonnyappleseed80]

It doesn't look like the picture you showed me, honestly the best way I could describe it would be tine yellow Daisy's growing out of the tops of my colas. I know that sounds weird but I don't see anything bannana shaped. Maybe it's just to early in its phase? You can see these flowers from like ten feet away so it's definatly obvious though its like an infestation if freaking Daisy's on my plants what the hell! My dreams as of this point look killer but I'm definitely nervous. Thinking I just push the crap out of em with nutes (they look really healthy right now) flush for a week and try to salvage what I can in seven weeks before seed can form. Might even use gravity to finish them. Hate to do it but going another 4-5 weeks sounds to risky. What do you think? Thanks again for your input

[pushit]

It doesn't look like the picture you showed me, honestly the best way I could describe it would be tine yellow Daisy's growing out of the tops of my colas. I know that sounds weird but I don't see anything bannana shaped. Maybe it's just to early in its phase? You can see these flowers from like ten feet away so it's definatly obvious though its like an infestation if freaking Daisy's on my plants what the hell! My dreams as of this point look killer but I'm definitely nervous. Thinking I just push the crap out of em with nutes (they look really healthy right now) flush for a week and try to salvage what I can in seven weeks before seed can form. Might even use gravity to finish them. Hate to do it but going another 4-5 weeks sounds to risky. What do you think? Thanks again for your input

I cant see anything abnormal about those pics. Maybe someone will pipe in that can see something and help ya out. I'm trying to picture what you are explaining but I have no clue to be honest. If it doesnt look like the pic i posted or the other pics youve seen of hermied plants, I personally would just keep doing what you are doing until its their time to cut. I could be way wrong but i dont see anything in the pics that throw up a red flag to me. If you can zoom in on what you are talking about maybe that will clear some things up.