Ok, I admit, I'm a newbie but I've done a lot of studying. I went to a grow class that a local farmacy put on after I was well into flowering with 4 OG Kush plants and 2 super silver haze clones that I got at the Hollywood farmacy. The 2 ssh clones were twins. Beautiful and big. After vegging for 3 weeks they really seamed ready so I put one of them in 12/12 for flowering. She was in there for 5 weeks. Had a super growth spurt in fact I had to bend her because she was getting to close to the sodium light. After 6 weeks, I decided to put her in with her sister. Now they've both been in there for another 3 weeks. The one that I put in there second got bushy and the leaves looked more like a cross between the Kush and the SSH but the flowers were looking good. Yesterday after 4 weeks I noticed that the second one had gone hermie on me. I wasn't checking because that seemed impossible. I immediately took it out of the room, put on some gloves, got a razor blade and performed a sex change operation. This morning I saw that there were more so I gave up and cut it down. My questions are:
#1. Why did it go hermie. Same conditions in fact it had more veggie time which should have been a good thing.
#2. How worried should I be about pollen?
#3. Should I hang and smoke the flowers on the hermie plant?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give this newbie. I've worked really hard and this is discouraging.

Anyone? I've been researching since yesterday and can't get any good answers. I even went into the farmacy and asked and they didn't have anything.

are they feminised seeds?

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no they are female clones that I got from the farmacy

Well I know hermies can be made if the plants were stressed enough, maybe genetics from the mother plant could have caused it but if you got it from a dispensary then I would assume they would make sure that wasn't the case. As for the pollen I'm not sure about but I know you can smoke the hermie buds, sorry to hear about that and good luck with the other plants.

Thanks. The thing is, they had the exact same conditions. I think I shouldn't have different strains in the flower room.
I should have taken pictures but I was so surprised when I saw the seeds that I just started cutting them off as fast as I could and flushed them down the toilet!

What can I say? Girls get emotional! I loved that bitch!

Shit happens, either they hermied from stress or genitics no one gets aces all the time.
Hope fully your next batch o beans will do you right and sprout females. It happens to all of us. Good luck on your next grow.

even a minor disruption in the light period is enough to stress a female into self pollination. I never remove hermies, expert commercial growers recommend it, but I flower them out and the seeds that are harvest are used for future grows. I have used over 200 hermie seeds and the resulting crops were 99% female and produced killer buds, I cannot supply enough product for my buyers.

So do you take them into a different room? Don't they pollenate the other plants? Should I keep just one strain in the 12/12 room?

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I have 7 female plants, only one of which became a hermaphrodite. I took it out of the room and put it in solitary confinement at 12/12 lighting. I'll keep it an harvest the seeds...and smoke the rest! It had the best blooms of the batch so I can't let it go to waste.

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