Hello Friends: I'm still learning how to grow but I grew 5 plants outside this year. They were feminized seeds purchased from a seed bank and each plant was a different strain. The plants were not that big and together they produced just over a pound of good flower. Okay, so the other day I was smoking some in a pipe and when I lit it up a seed started to burn. I checked the rest of that particular flower and found another seed in it. This is rare, hardly any of the flowers I grew had seeds. The question is: How did a seed grow in feminized plants with no males around? Is it possible I picked up a small bit of pollen flowing through the air outside or can female plants somehow make seeds without pollen in a desperate attempt to reproduce? Will the seeds I find be feminized seeds or just regular seeds that could grow male or female plants?
The very act of feminizing Cannabis seeds bring a slight chance of Hermaphrodite tendencies. The end result is a few seeds self pollenated. 99% chance they are female seeds as well as odds are she only had her own genetics to work from. The blue berry clone I ran for years always kicked out 5-10 seeds all female. BNW
Most likely the plant is a Hermaphrodite which is pretty common and even more common if the plant is stressed in anyway . As for the seeds you found good chance they will hermaphrodite too. MJ pollen depending where your at and the climate can travel hundreds of miles .. Right now its becoming a problem over the Mediterranean Sea . The pollen getting caught up in hot air thermals from the northern African Countries is traveling hundreds of miles up into southern Europe and pollenating crops . Guess I am different I use regular seeds ,,, i get a healthy female plant and turn her into a mother plant and clone off of her ..
Well, it was grown on the coast of California, USA, any pollen in the air would have to come from inland because I can't imagine it coming all the way across the Pacific ocean. I will only say that it was grown in the wilderness and not close to homes however I'm pretty certain that other cannabis was grown within a 50 mile radius around the site. I agree that the seeds are probably the result of hermaphrodite tendencies of the feminized seeds. I feel confident that any seeds I find will be feminized also. Cloning off a mother plant is a great way to go if you have a place to grow a mother plant indoors, but really, I don't have a spot indoors where I can set up a grow for a mother plant. I just plant early from seed and leave it outside and hope for good sun so it gets as large as possible. I try not to spend too much time or money on it, I'm not a commercial grower, I just want cheap weed.