Hey guys,
I had a question about hermies. I am 32 days into flowering some white widow. Out of 7 plants, all of them started off female. Then like 3 weeks into flowering, one of the plant's hairs started turning red. Now, after over 4 weeks into flowering, 3/4 of the hairs are red on that one plant, and there are early immature seeds everywhere on the lower part of the plant. I know I should throw away the hermie, but WHY? I dont see any pollen stamen, all I see are seeds, and I thought seeds DO NOT produce pollen, so why does everyone say to throw a hermie away immediately? Will the hermie pollinate other female plants nearby? If so, how does it pollinate them with just seeds and no pollen stamen? Is there any condition in which it would be OK to keep the hermie and not risk the other plants?

Thanks everyone
Andrew

is they any like tear things, growing on the stems. growing under the buds, if so pull one off. and inside the pist. tear looking thing, they should be a tiny, pin prick, of an unformed seed, has your so called hermies got any of these things, were your seeds fem/normal. i think w.w are very prone to the hermie trait. any pics?. ive had these problems b4 a lot with venus and thats much like ww.

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yea, I already tested it, and the tear-drop seedlets are there, and without a doubt, it is a hermie. I dont have a pic, but you can take my word for it that this is definetely a hermie. and also, yes, they were feminized seeds, which i now have mixed feelings about. but again, what im wondering is why i have to get rid of a hermie if all i see are seeds (NO pollen stamen yet)...... if only seeds are present, how is this risking the other nearby plants from changing sex? i just dont get it, i thought only pollen could fertilize a female plant, not seeds!

you must have some pollen in there somewhere if youve got seeds forming.
you might have got only a couple of male flowers on the plant and theyve opened and fallen off without you noticing them.
are you 100% sure what you see are seeds?

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be cause in a week or two it will turn every plant hermie, and every clone you then take will be.
when i started to grow i got 4 venus clones grew them 2 foot then put into 12/12. i didnt know they were hermie then, cos, i didnt even know what a hermie was, till my plant looked like a female but was growing seeds, so i finished growing them, 13/weeks 12/12 and millions of seeds and if you smoke any unformed seeds they give you bad headace. hermies infect your whole grow, if i was you id just sling them in the bin . honesly i would. not worth the time and stress.
where did you get the seeds. what var. where from. there not niv. are they. but w.w are easy to turn hermie. if yous starting out get some sk#1 or fem ver. skunk#11. they are good to start out with, and a lot easyer to grow. i got 5 for about £20 fem.

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and if you dont know what your looking for the pollen is hard to spot.
how many plants have you got and how many are man bitches.

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are they actually seeds or just swollen calyxes?

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i am sure they are seeds, when I pick a piece of the bud you can peel a coating off to reveal a poppy-seed-sized green immature seed. also, why would that one plant happen to have red hairs like a month early, and all the others are still white hairs?
Anyway, why must there be pollen present? I thought when females turn hermie, its because they see a change in the conditions, and needs to "fertilize" itself, and will develop seeds inside the pods. Does there have to be pollen there FIRST before seeds can develop or something?

yea these seeds are fem w.w. from dutch passion. i guess ill have to chuck the plant, its a damn shame cause the leaves were just starting to get real frosty.
i had 7 plants to start with, all 7 were female until this 1 hermie popped up. no other hermies/males as of yet. also, i do know what to look for, i've spotted male pollen stamen before, and i can tell the difference between the pollen sac and the seeds, and this is definetely seeds. i dont think they are swollen calyxes because female calyxes are just plant material. This plant's calyxes has a coating and contains tiny hard green grains, which must be seeds, right?.

if the plant is a hermie then it has both male and female bits, the male bits release pollen to pollinate the female bits which produces seeds.
hermies dont turn other plants hermie they just pollinate the others causing them to produce seeds.

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