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what do I do with this hermaphrodite

Discussion in 'First-Time Cannabis Growers' started by human_crack1985, Apr 4, 2007.

  1. #1 human_crack1985, Apr 4, 2007
    ok I have 11 females, I couldn't distinguish the males from the females at first I thought the male was a female I left it there for a long time (I was astonished to see flowering since its my first grow) it turned out to be these pods and they bursted open and I have two questions

    1st are my females pollinated? they had just started to show pistils and small flowers when the male plants' seed pods bursted open?

    2nd, what should I do with this one hermaphrodite I have, it has a nice flower, if the females are already pollinated I might as well leave it in right? i'd hate to take it out, it will produce seedy bud but you can still smoke it?
     
  2. #2 toastybiz, Apr 4, 2007
    Treat a hermie like a male -- remove it carefully and then destroy it or make it into hash or cannabutter. Unless you want to produce seeds for future planting, but it sounds like you already have pollinated. Don't let it continue to grow in there, it will just continue to pollinate the bud even more, producing even more seeds.

    Yes you can smoke seedy bud (clean the seeds out), and there is debate if the smokable part is less, more, or equally potent as unpollinated bud, but putting that debate aside one thing is true: the more seeds you have the less smokable bud you have.
     
  3. #3 peacetoker90, Apr 4, 2007
    make some sweet hash, and puff on that tasty stuff
     
  4. #4 human_crack1985, Apr 4, 2007
    you guys kick ass
     
  5. #5 stopsnitchin, Apr 5, 2007
    you might get some feminized seeds too so even if this harvest is fucked, your next one should be spectacular. good luck.
     
  6. #6 toastybiz, Apr 6, 2007
    Doubtful. Most hermies are totally screwed-up plants that has both X- and Y-chromosome pollen (male and female). Femmed pollen (all X-chromosome) is created mostly by human tinkering but on rare occasion by blind luck, when a female is stressed in particular ways that cause individual bud sites to outwardly grow as male but still are genetically female through and through.
     

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