Just found a hermaphrodite

[PrideOfCucamonga]

I was looking at one of my two plants today and it appears that it is a hermaphrodite. It is into its 5th week of flowering and i just found 20-30 male anthers at the bottom of the plant. Many of them have already busted open. I spent the last hour trying to pull off each anther, and now i have quarantined the hermie plant. What should my course of action be now? There is a very good chance that the pollen spread onto the other plant since i keep a fan blowing every day. Are both of my plants completely screwed now? I am thinking about cutting down the hermie tonight and salvaging what buds i can from the plant. Another question i have is concerning pollination. The hermie plant is most likely fertilized, does this mean the entire plant will start producing seeds? Is there a possibilty that only the ovaries that were fertilized will start producing seeds? Please help me, i am in quite the situation right now and i would hate to see it all end like this. Thanks for any help

PrideOfCucamonga Reviewed by PrideOfCucamonga on 03-06-2007. Just found a hermaphrodite I was looking at one of my two plants today and it appears that it is a hermaphrodite. It is into its 5th week of flowering and i just found 20-30 male anthers at the bottom of the plant. Many of them have already busted open. I spent the last hour trying to pull off each anther, and now i have quarantined the hermie plant. What should my course of action be now? There is a very good chance that the pollen spread onto the other plant since i keep a fan blowing every day. Are both of my plants Rating: 5

[Trainer07]

i believe that if a hermie pollinates itself the seeds produced will al be females so grow it out to maturity and then harvest

[Tomthehippie]

yeap! dont kill it! look up zanders female seed section in the grow faq!!

[stinkyattic]

Go through and mist everyone well with plain water to make the remaining pollen non-viable.

[PrideOfCucamonga]

Ok, i will do that asap

[PrideOfCucamonga]

Are both of my plants going to fill up with seeds or could it just be a couple here and there?

[stinkyattic]

You'll know in like 2 weeks how bad it is.
But from the first post... and how long it took to get the male flowers off of there... you're gonna be a daddy... BIG time.
But in response to the original Q, yeah only fertilized ovaries will produce seeds.

[PrideOfCucamonga]

thanks you for the reply

[faithlessxxx]

Next time, spray the flowers down with water before you snip them.

[Storm Crow]

You're talking like this is a big disaster! It's a minor inconvenience at the worst and an opportunity at the best. So you get some seeds. Just take that big mesh strainer and rub the dried bud through that. All the seeds will stay in the strainer and the nicely clean pot will fall through. Yes, you may get a fair number of hermies from the seeds, but you will also get a big bunch of females. Hermie-ism is a great survival trait for the cannabis species. You can use the seeds to take on a "picnic" off in the boonies somewhere, if you are worrying about the dreaded hermies. We old hippies were raised on seeded pot. Sinsemilla was rare! Frankly, I think that at least in part, the seedless pot is favored by dealers because you can NOT renew your supply by just growing out the seeds. Plant your seeds, even if you are never going back to that spot. You may make some kid's day! - Granny:hippy: