[Jahaze]

So this morning with my cup of coffee in hand and a freshly rolled joint I decided to do some gardening and check on the flower room when I noticed dust on one of the lullablock fan leaves. Didn't think much until my attention turned to a Hawaiian spice in early flower with the same dust on its leaves. As I rubbed the dust I spotted fresh pollen sacks underneath an already formed flower cluster. Damn! How could I have missed this...it's only been three days since my last inspection. I pulled out the plants and a small pollen cloud developed and quickly took flight on the fan currents in the room...double damn! I blame myself for not being vigilant and catching this earlier but this has never happened before. I've had nanners for sure but this is new to me. The plant in question is a new seed plants of Hawaiian Spice which vegged for about 65 days before being flipped. At no point during veg or flower (until now) did it express a staminate flower. I realize the the plant is genetically female but man did this intersex trait come on fast and strong. With damage done, I have no choice but to cull and hope that the pollen didn't hit many of the other girls in the room. I grow for myself only and have only 12 plants in flower (11 now) but any spoilage hurts. Of course not all is lost as I hopefully caught it early enough to minimize extended seeding of surrounding plants. I have the clone but I don't think this was from a stressed plant or environmentally triggered and I may just toss it as well. Too bad because at 25 days of flower she was really developing beautifully. Oh well, it's a numbers game and sooner or later your number comes up. Undeterred, new Hawaiian spice seeds must be soaked and explored.

I have noticed that of the varietals I've grown from chimera, the Hawaiian shows the most tropical narrow leaf expression. Could it be the mother is not fully stabilized plant not far removed from its landrace origins? I know some Thais are affected this way and its part and parcel of the strain. In no way am I suggesting that this is infact the case as the mother may have come from a fully stabilize line. It must be mentioned that this is the second HS I've grown from seed and the first one did not have this trait. I continue to periodically run that plant with no issue.

[aridbud]

Yep, hermie.

[Picarus]

oh man, sorry to see. that poof might as well have been an atomic bomb. You can still hash them up so all is not lost.

[Stonecutter]

I had a similar issue- not a chimera strain, and to keep it short, there weren't many seeds on the other plants- like 20 seeds on 8 other plants. So don't go freaking out and chopping everything unnecessarily. Your call though.

Respects,

[lostenspace]

I would wet all your remaining plants down to wash pollen, it sticks around in a dry area

[MJPassion]

Give her another run but be vigilant and pluck them balls. It may be a case where you pluck & never see another issue but ya never know until ya try. If she's no keeper... toss'er.

That pollen is definitely going to give you seeds. Whether good or bad is yet to be determined. Again, only growing them out will give the answer.

I hope you made a good mistake!

[Jahaze]

Yeah thanks everyone...I pulled out the Hawaiian and checked her over and there were pollen sacks on about 40% of the plant at different stages of development so the Hawaiian is out. Chopped and discarded. The room emptied and wiped down and the plants hosed with copious amounts of water and returned. No doubt the lullablock got hit with some pollen as well as a lapis mt. afghani and a melody kush which is coming down on Sunday so no real concern there. The lapis was just flipped so she is safe but the lullablock definitely will make seeds. The other unknown was that puff of pollen that was carried off by the fans towards the back of the room. A few seeds isn't too bad...it was the sudden realization I had free pollen and had no idea how I missed those sacks which got me worked up. After a few hits of weed I was calm again. I restrained myself enough and didn't destroy the clone but I will certainly be wary if I decide to run it again.

Gutted for you Jahaze but hopefully its not too bad, I got hit the last grow from a herm and ended up with quite a few seed but overall it wasn't that bad, only one of the plants was heavily seeded and one side on another plant had a few cola's that were bad but overall mostly seed free or just the odd one here and there.
Lets hope yours go the same way and you end up with mostly seed free flowers rasta.

Respect

Raspaul

[Gizmo]

here is the drawback of feminized/female seeds....sorry i meant gynoecious seeds... not so gynoecious in this case... so what hapened ? poor selection or grower error ?

[Jahaze]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

here is the drawback of feminized/female seeds....sorry i meant gynoecious seeds... not so gynoecious in this case... so what hapened ? poor selection or grower error ?

Dont know what happened really...could have been environmental, could have be the this particular plant. I can say that I have grown out a few of Chimeras feminized lines with no problems. No other plant in the room has had problems and and the room has been rotating plants for some time without issue. I have another Hawaiian Spice for over a year without issues.