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Think i got a hermie

Discussion in 'Growing Marijuana Outdoors' started by guitargod45, Aug 17, 2006.

  1. #1 guitargod45, Aug 17, 2006
    Im pretty sure the girl that i thought i had, is now showing herself to be a hermie, is there anything good about having a hermie or is there any way i can turn it back into a female? Also, im not sure bout this one...but is it true that the seeds that a hermie will produce are all female? Because if thats the case, then ill keep it for all feminized seeds for next years grow. thanks, later

    P.S.- Can post pics tommorow to make sure if its a hermie or not.
     
  2. #2 drtask, Aug 17, 2006
    alright. if you want to prevent seeds, catch those balls before they burst and put them in a bag so you can pollinate only one or two buds instead of an entire plant. if you dont catch those balls in time, you will have seeds assbud.
     
  3. #3 skittles, Aug 17, 2006
    if it dosent have too many balls just pick em off.. I had one that sprouted a few and i did that
     
  4. #4 guitargod45, Aug 17, 2006
    Alrite i see wut ur saying here. I'll do that, but how about the part of the hermie's seeds being female? Is that true or not?
     
  5. #5 drtask, Aug 17, 2006
    thats been my assumtion on how they get feminized seeds. but i may be wrong. i think its true, but get more opinions
     
  6. #6 s12fever, Aug 17, 2006
    no they spray the pollinated flowering plant in its 1st week of pollination with a certain chemical

    hermies are useless pretty much. If you wanted, i guess you could keep growing it, but don't expect highest quality bud, and you'd have to keep chopping off sacs every week or so
     
  7. #7 72firebird396, Aug 17, 2006
    i thought they got fem seeds, by using the hermi to pollinate another female. the stuff they spray on the plant in flowering is called gebralic (or something like that) acid, and it makes the plant create male flowers thus making it a hermi. and guitar, just keep pickin the balls off, if you just keep doin it as they form you should be fine and still get decent bud
     
  8. #8 guitargod45, Aug 18, 2006
    Here are those pics of my plant, these are the parts that i am thinking are the male pollen sacs on my hermie, i jus wanna make sure that they are pollen sacs before i remove them
     

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  9. #9 PureSativa420, Aug 18, 2006
    yep them cluster or balls are the male pollen sacks and looks like you quite a few on your hands, hermies are ok and will produce buds but the hassle of picking off balls never seem worth it to me so i jus chopped mine down but if it was my only 1 to 3 plants i guess i could work wit it :)
     
  10. #10 skittles, Aug 19, 2006
    yea thats hardcore hermie.. the one i picked the sacks off of had 1 or 2 on a few of the lower branches
     
  11. #11 Doober420, Aug 20, 2006
    Thats correct... if you pollenate a female with a hermie you get around 95% female seeds if u keep the seeds from the hermie it will be half hermie and half female seeds. And yes i have a few hermies and i keep checking them regularly picking off all the the sacs as they appear some have lots and some don't... I had one that only had 2 sacs and its been over a few weeks and still no more... weird eh.
     

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