Can you help????

[mary420jane]

I have this plant that has started to flower before any of the others and has showed no sign of being male. Now that the buds are ready to harvest there are these little yellow things. I have no idea what they are and I have done some research and I think that it is a female Hermaphrodite. I would like to have another opinion please. About 1 1/2 weeks ago I took a bud that didn't have these and dried it and tested it and it is great, but now there are the yellow things. Can it still be smokeable or what? and is it a female Hermaphrodite? Please help!!!!


mary420jane

[junchieve]

Looks like balls to me. Sorry.

[masterplain88]

herm for sure any yellow pistol formation on buds its a herm. when the males open up there seeds they are yellow like after the grape sacks(seed/pollen) mature.
masterplain88

[mary420jane]

so i should chop it down then huh? but is it smokeable?

[vwguy]

I would say that if it isnt close to any other plants that i would let it grow and dry it. the worst that could happen is that its no good. but ya never know it may give a buzzzzzzzzzzzz. but maybe not. if it is a herm you might get pollen on your other plants if you have anymore. but then again i may be totally stupid as well lol

[Wild-find-I.D.]

its not hermaphrodite it could be feminized!!!!

no dont chop it let it be or pick if its ready yes those are ball but some strains of marijuana do that at a point of maturity I had blueberry way back in 2001 2002 & once it got so mature it grew male flowers to reproduce but that is not a bad thing it could be feminized when they pollinate there selfs they produce female seeds male plants carry an X-Y cromazons females carry X-X croms when a female produces pollen near the end of a flowering cycle the pollen only carrys x-x croms seeing how there was never a male

& thats the state your plant is in now if you let it produce its seeds I say they will all be females no males this is more common in hybrids its so you dont need a male to reproduce & the plant turns out a copy of its self

I grew blueberry for 4 or 5 years from 1 plant it produced 36 seeds that all were female

[weeeeeee]

as soooooooooooooon as you see those bananas you need to pull that plant you let that shit go far god damn do i hate pollen it fucking suckssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss what strain was it if you dont mind my asking or just some bag seed

[masterplain88]

i thought femanized was wen the seeds wich there would be only a few atamaticaly finsish in the bud without showing male formation. like the plant atamaticaly has some seeds so it can carry on.
masterplain88

[mary420jane]

REALLY I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT. THAT IS KIND OF LIKE THIS ONE PLANT I HAVE TOPPED ITSELF. I THOUGHT IT WAS DYING AND WHEN I WENT OUT THERE TO IT 3 DAYS LATER IT HAD INSTEAD OF ONE STALK AND MANY LIMBS IT HAD 3 STALKS AND MANY BRANCHS. SO IT IS LIKE I HAVE 3 PLANTS IN ONE. IT IS A BEAUTY. IF YOU CAN'T TELL THIS IS MY FIRST TIME GROWIN LMFAO!!!! MY DAD KNOW ON HERE AS "THE OLD MAN" DIDN'T GET TO TEACH ME WHAT HE NEW BEFORE HE DIED, SO I HAVE TO DO IT ON MY OWN AND RESEARCH. IS THERE ANY GOOD POINTERS THAT YOU CAN GIVE ME FOR GROWING OUTDOORS? I AM EVENTUALLY GOING TO GO INDOOR.

[mary420jane]

TO BE HONEST I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT STRAIN IT WAS. IT COME FROM MY DADS SEEDS HE HAD. I DON'T THINK IT WAS A MALE BECAUSE THE LITTLE BANANAS YOU CALL THEM DIDN'T SHOW UP TIL ABOUT 3-4 DAYS AGO AFTER THE PLANT HAD FLOWERED AND ALREADY MADE BUD. I HAD ALREADY HARVESTED IT ONCE AND IT SMOKES GREAT. THAT IS WHAT I AM CONFUSED ABOUT.

[mary420jane]

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[Shamsu]

Originally Posted by mary420jane

I have this plant that has started to flower before any of the others and has showed no sign of being male. Now that the buds are ready to harvest there are these little yellow things. I have no idea what they are and I have done some research and I think that it is a female Hermaphrodite. I would like to have another opinion please. About 1 1/2 weeks ago I took a bud that didn't have these and dried it and tested it and it is great, but now there are the yellow things. Can it still be smokeable or what? and is it a female Hermaphrodite? Please help!!!!


mary420jane

Hello
I dont clame to know alot abot pot, but in my experience those do look like male floweres sticking out of the bud. But i havenot seen male flowers grow in the female flower itself. they are usually growing on the stem at a leaf node and hange down as little bell flowres. All my hermaphrodites have had seperate floweres on seperate parts of the plant. I usually take the hermaphs and make hash with them, but if it has retained its potency(which the majority of the THC and Delta-9 is in the tricromes on the surface of the plant) i would just smoke it, but if those are male floweres and they have already opened your too late to keep the other females seedfree.
Good luck

[dreadydavo]

its a hermi. If there are no other plant around then let it finish. i see trichomes so it will be smokable, and probably decent, but it will have seeds, probably lots of them. If plants become hermaphrodites early in flowering the resulting seeds will most likely be an even mix of female and hermaphrodites. You have better chances of feminized seeds if only a few pollen sacs show up late in flowering. Let the he/she ride. Ive gotten great smoke off hermaphodites, but then i did have to spend some time de-seeding it first. Be prepared to have between 1/4 to almost 1/2 dried weight in seed though.

[Wild-find-I.D.]

Originally Posted by masterplain88

i thought feminized was wen the seeds wich there would be only a few atamaticaly finsish in the bud without showing male formation. like the plant atamaticaly has some seeds so it can carry on.
masterplain88

No!! feminized is when a female plant only carries x-x croms & a plant can not produce seeds with out pollen

so with hybrids you dont need a male & female to reproduce for seeds the male & female reproduction in plants will produce male & female seeds
the male plant carrying X-Y croms & X-X for female you end with X-X & X-Y Crom seeds

so 1 female plant can self pollinate & produce nothing but female seeds meaning feminized only carrying X-X croms in its pollen this is so hybrids plants dont cross pollinate & so that 1 plant can carry on the same genetics over & over but in cross pollination it changes plants genetics never reproducing the same results like feminized strains

so I say again it could be feminized look into it

[bugs]

Seeds from a self-pollinated hermie will be female, and will pass on the hermie trait.

Sounds like she's been stressed pretty hard, and stress can bring out the hermie trait. Survival.

As for smokability, hell yes, it should work fine. Back in "the day" we almost never got sinse. Mostly seedy Mex and Jamaican, and there was sometimes some pretty good weed. Just had to clean out the seeds.

The general rule of thumb is, if it's got balls Kill It. If there's already a good amount of buddage, you won't lose much.

Those other plants look like they have a ways to go yet. They won't put on the bud weight or get as juicy if they're putting energy into making seeds, but the smoke will be OK. The damage is done, but even if they're pollinated you'll still get a better crop if you let them mature a while.

My instincts? Yank the hermie, dry it well away and upwind from the others, or inside, to prevent further pollination. Let the rest go to maturity even if they have seeds, they'll smoke just fine.

[weeeeeee]

Originally Posted by bugs

Seeds from a self-pollinated hermie will be female, and will pass on the hermie trait.

Sounds like she's been stressed pretty hard, and stress can bring out the hermie trait. Survival.

As for smokability, hell yes, it should work fine. Back in "the day" we almost never got sinse. Mostly seedy Mex and Jamaican, and there was sometimes some pretty good weed. Just had to clean out the seeds.

The general rule of thumb is, if it's got balls Kill It. If there's already a good amount of buddage, you won't lose much.

Those other plants look like they have a ways to go yet. They won't put on the bud weight or get as juicy if they're putting energy into making seeds, but the smoke will be OK. The damage is done, but even if they're pollinated you'll still get a better crop if you let them mature a while.

My instincts? Yank the hermie, dry it well away and upwind from the others, or inside, to prevent further pollination. Let the rest go to maturity even if they have seeds, they'll smoke just fine.

excellent reply definitely rep for that one you covered it all about hermies and your plant sir is definitely without a doubt herm i had a large crop of ice and alot of them hermed on me it was pretty sad

yes its still smokeable but if you grow it out then you want make sure you bleach the shit out of your grow space to get rid of pollen and if there are any plants in there other than that one then pull it it could already be too late my personal advice would be to pull that mother fucker rogue pollen can come back to haunt you ... trust me

[dice]

Yup as said b4 thats def a herm.
So chop that thing down b4 its to late for the others.
Also its def smokable so enjoy her.

[mary420jane]

Originally Posted by bugs

Seeds from a self-pollinated hermie will be female, and will pass on the hermie trait.

Sounds like she's been stressed pretty hard, and stress can bring out the hermie trait. Survival.

As for smokability, hell yes, it should work fine. Back in "the day" we almost never got sinse. Mostly seedy Mex and Jamaican, and there was sometimes some pretty good weed. Just had to clean out the seeds.

The general rule of thumb is, if it's got balls Kill It. If there's already a good amount of buddage, you won't lose much.

Those other plants look like they have a ways to go yet. They won't put on the bud weight or get as juicy if they're putting energy into making seeds, but the smoke will be OK. The damage is done, but even if they're pollinated you'll still get a better crop if you let them mature a while.

My instincts? Yank the hermie, dry it well away and upwind from the others, or inside, to prevent further pollination. Let the rest go to maturity even if they have seeds, they'll smoke just fine.

The weather here has been pretty shitty. I went ahead and chopped her down. She was ready anyways. I tried a quick dry on just a lil and hang dried the rest. It was very YUM!!!! Thank you for all of your responses to my post. It was all very useful information. I have now chopped 2 more since then and have dried and tested. They are nice as well. The buds are not that big, but I think that it is from me topping them twice. Someone asked what strain and I can honestly tell you that I have no idea. They are all from bag weed. I think I have done great for my first grow. Will post new recent pics. Let me know what ya think.

Thanks
mary420jane

[bugs]

Damn sight better than my first attempt! Back in '70 there wasn't much info available about growing, and Mex bagseed sure wasn't adapted to northern climates.

Kudos.

[greenie]

those will be awful seeds. chop that as soon as possible and dont grow any of the seeds. the goal is pot withOUT seeds, aka sinsemilla. you want nothing to do with that plant, and yes its still smokable