Seed Mystery

[WoodyRedeye]

lol..Seeds cannot form without a male plant..

WOW! What have I started?? LOL

Facts are I had a female plant which I harvested, I definetly have no males as I only had one plant. Although I do have other plants around, tomatoes, peppers, sweetcorn(which gave off a lot of pollen) and melons.

I found amongst my harvest two seeds!

I think we should all await the "litmus test" should we not?

I will have to plant the seeds in question and see what happens wont I?

Email me next summer lol!! as i dont use lights!

Really appreciate the in-depth response though, fascinating!

[Sinsemilla Jones]

If they're immature, they won't germ anyway.

Even mature seeds sometimes don't germinate for whatever reason.

If they do germ, it really wouldn't prove HGS wrong either.

And since you wouldn't know who the father(s) was, the plants that resulted would be a crapshoot.

Pollen CAN come from tens or even hundreds of miles away, so even a single female can get some pollination, but it would probably be from wild fiber/seed plants.

If they are pale and you can crush them between your fingers, they aren't viable.

But if they are dark and hard, you might give it a whirl as an experiment, but I wouldn't expect to get any great pot from them.

[WoodyRedeye]

Seeds are IMPOSSIBLE without pollen.

If they do germinate, would that not prove YOU wrong?

an organism that germinates into a plant, would be classed as a SEED (whatever the type of plant produced) would it not?

The area where I live, I really cannot imagine any other MJ plantations in the vicinity, so its a very very slim chance of pollen from other plants.

The hermaprhodite philosopy is possible tho, how would I tell if this has happened? it was a nice smoke like

[Sinsemilla Jones]

If they do germinate, would that not prove YOU wrong?

It was HGS who said that these "immaculate seeds" were NOT viable.
So, if they germinate, I think even HGS would say they had to have been pollinated.

But would that prove "immaculate seeds" impossible?
No, just that YOUR seeds were pollinated.

If they didn't germinate, would that prove they were "immaculate"?
No, because immature seeds wouldn't germinate, anyway.
Even mature seeds sometimes don't germinate.

It wouldn't take a marijuana plantation for only 2 little grains of pollen to make it to your plant.
A single male puts out thousands of pollen grains.

There is a lot of wild hemp out there.
Here in the States, 99% of what the cops pull up is wild.
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19435.shtml
(3rd article down)

Besides, don't they allow industrial hemp to be grown in the UK?
That would seem to make it even more likely that there could be a source hemp pollen around.

Of course, if you find a male flower on a bud that you missed, mystery solved.

[SativaTrip]

just to be an ass here to everyone...lmao........you could technically sp[eaking take one female plant all by itself and make a viable seed or seeds but it also dose technically need male pollen STILL to do this. But that shit might also not be from a male plant so to speak.lol i am just proving a point with this just to be a technical smhecknical (made upi word) So here are some things just to prove a fourtyninth possible theory , beside the fact that it is prob just a empy seed like everyone says but hey this is also true.


I just read an article or post or somethin on how to make feminized seeds....basically if you use this technique called "light poisoning" whereby which you introduce an hour of light during the twelve hour dark peiod of flowering the female will stress itself into making a male BRANCH and it will pollinate itself....BUT>>>>with only FEMALES stuff. So it's like a chic with a dick that is itself all at the same time and that is how they or you can mke feminized seeds. it doesn't produce many seeds but the only other way tht i have heard is some gerbradda somethin or other acid treatment.


So technically i guess everyone is right and everyone is absolutley wrong lol
and don't write back somethin like nuh uh cuz that doesn't make sense
because i don't care...just read up on it and you will see.....word out peace

[Sinsemilla Jones]

The only way females produce seeds on their own is if stress causes them to produce a few male flowers.

I mentioned that in my first post, lol.

[GRB.4.Life]

Anyone know what happens to the inside of a cannabis flower when it dies from stress or is over matured?

Tip- It sure as hell doesnt get soft...

[WoodyRedeye]

[align=center]Thanks all who voted in the poll![/align]

Looks like No pollen no seeds, although technically, the female plant could survive without pollen could she not? or is that another debate?

[GRB.4.Life]

Of course a female plant can survive without pollen. If you dont want seeds in your weed then you WANT the female to not have any pollen. If you want seedless bud, pollen is deadly..If you want seeds, well then pollen is yur best friend..

[Imotep]

this has happened in several grows that i may have let mature a little too long,they are hollow unfertilized seed,worthless,useless,non viable,but they are seed none the less....bonbon

Yep, been there.
Ive had plenty of stressed fems throw a male banana flower.
Ive had what were traditionally straight fems stress into full time hermaphrodites too, at least thats my observation of what had happened. Wind blown pollen may well have played a part though the other characteristics didnt change noticably.

Also, on jurassic park, all the dinosaurs they created were females. But like one of them said, "nature will find a way" and sure enough it did, eggs were found!