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hermies! need some advices:)
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Scrappy-doo
Your entire grow could easily get pollinated. I would cut down the hermies if it were me, but if some are manageable you might try to pick off the nanners. Sucks bro I been there.
freak420
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hi, i have 48 WW plants(SOG) and now theyre in 4.week flowering...i have some hermies(maybe one third or even half!). if i let them flower to the end... how many seeds gonna be? i hope not full buds of them..
any advice? thanks!
1/3 or 1/2 plants are Herm. ?
wtf ! ?!
some strains make bananas @ week 4 /5/6 ?!
i think
there 's any problem !! genetic or enviroment .. light leaks
to much or less of SOMETHing (light Nuts ) - Stress
seperate the plants ... pollinated plants are so sick!!
weed is not smokeable , Today
criddopher
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OrganicOzarks
I have some reveges of a solid strain throwing some balls. I have still yet to find a ball, but you can see that pollen has been chucked onto some of the plants. I am spraying with compost tea twice a week to keep the pollen down. I am just riding it out in hopes that they are sterile.
This cut of strawberry diesel has been one of the most solid plants I have grown to date. It was surprising to say the least.
Honestly 1 plant can seed the shit out of an entire crop. So if you have 1/3 to 1/2 I would pull them. It sucks to do it, but once you have deseeded bud you will realize that what is left is not worth anything but hash or butter.
You have to figure out why they have done this, and correct the problem for next round. Hermies are usually a sign that something is off.
This cut of strawberry diesel has been one of the most solid plants I have grown to date. It was surprising to say the least.
Honestly 1 plant can seed the shit out of an entire crop. So if you have 1/3 to 1/2 I would pull them. It sucks to do it, but once you have deseeded bud you will realize that what is left is not worth anything but hash or butter.
You have to figure out why they have done this, and correct the problem for next round. Hermies are usually a sign that something is off.
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if u live in the right area u could try to put hermis outdoors and try finish them outside!! i did this with some .. and got some mighty fine buds.. butttt i put some out that werent flowering yet and they proly wont finish outdoors.. but the ones i put out at 4 weeks flower were done in the normal 8 week time period!!! seriously.. can leave u with tons of seeds.. so id say cut em.. spray em with reverse.. or put outside!
Have culled half the plants in a similar sog three weeks in due to PM , yield was two thirds what was expected from the original forty , they filled out more and took advantage of the sudden extra space and light share.
Have carefully made 200 seed from a single male flower , with as many hermies as you have almost every pistill could get hit , would bin the worst and give the rest a going over with tweezers every couple of days if practical , and work out what induced this behaviour if its a proven clone.
If you can do it without risking mould , regular sprays/mists or foliar feeds will limit any further damage.
Lightly seeded bud with full term mature seed is not a total disaster to smoke , less potent but often with a very different richer flavour than unseeded , easy to discard when crumbling.
Any tiny immature seeds present will not be found and kill the smoke dead with that foul burnt cooking oil taste that lingers , tried DM,s Reverse once in desparation and it stopped further male flowers fine , but the immature seeds remained and still ruined the crop.
Have carefully made 200 seed from a single male flower , with as many hermies as you have almost every pistill could get hit , would bin the worst and give the rest a going over with tweezers every couple of days if practical , and work out what induced this behaviour if its a proven clone.
If you can do it without risking mould , regular sprays/mists or foliar feeds will limit any further damage.
Lightly seeded bud with full term mature seed is not a total disaster to smoke , less potent but often with a very different richer flavour than unseeded , easy to discard when crumbling.
Any tiny immature seeds present will not be found and kill the smoke dead with that foul burnt cooking oil taste that lingers , tried DM,s Reverse once in desparation and it stopped further male flowers fine , but the immature seeds remained and still ruined the crop.
Majorly important to spray everything down, once the hermies are out of there.
Pollen floating around will continually keep seeding your plants, making sure you have seeds at every stage of growth at harvest time. One can deal with fully mature seeds in the bud... having teeny-tiny, fully mature and every size seed in between makes for bud that's only good for hash and such.
Take a second and third look for light leaks, etc... you may just find it.
Stay Safe!
Pollen floating around will continually keep seeding your plants, making sure you have seeds at every stage of growth at harvest time. One can deal with fully mature seeds in the bud... having teeny-tiny, fully mature and every size seed in between makes for bud that's only good for hash and such.
Take a second and third look for light leaks, etc... you may just find it.
Stay Safe!
