Weird Buds

Hey Peeps,

I’m having the hardest time figuring out if this is a hermaphrodite or not. Almost 4 wks into flower and all the other plants look fine. But this one plant has small clusters of very pale green plant masses intermixed with the normal looking white hairy bud. It’s kind of difficult to see in these pictures, but these weird little buds don’t look like any hermi I’ve ever seen. What do you think?


The first two pictures are the weird ones, and the last one is a normal bud from a neighboring plant for comparison.

Are they all the same strain?

is it trying to go back into veg maybe, check for light leaks. the third pic looks normal enough

If it is a hermi it will show ball sacks before the crown of the plant morphs or begins to look spherical like the heads of male flowers. The first two pics look like you have growing deformities and maybe a ph problem. I can't really tell, your lights give everything a lil tinge and its hard to pinpoint. The first one looks like it has nodes that never grew out and remained close to the plant. Plant three is the only one that looks normal.

cannabutt said:

is it trying to go back into veg maybe, check for light leaks. the third pic looks normal enough

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If the 1st and 2nd plants are starting to grow single fan leaves instead of 3 or more, than yes, it definitely went back into veg. Not the end of the world, it will just take longer to start flowering again. This happened to me on my last grow. Plant came out beautiful, but took three extra weeks to finish once reverted back.

I'm going to go out on a limb here.. and say its definatly a hermaphrodite.

It's definately not normal growth. I will tell you that much..

Plus I've experienced one hermaphrodite in my growing years.. basically your going to have buds.. but your buds will be heavily seeded.

When it happened to me the one time, i tried figuring out what caused it. Took me a while to figure it out, but I found out that it was mainly due to the

fact that I was stressing the plant too much. It was Nirvana's 'ICE' strain too btw.. incase anyone is currently growing the strain (I am, its my last one)

they need to know that, that particular strain is very tempermental and doesn't like to be bothered/moved around while she's growing. Especially during

flowering. But yeah, the fact I was messing with her too much.. then add that with messing up the lights about 3 times (didn't have a light timer at the

time.) and that resulted in being late 3 or 4 times switching off the lights. Those two stresses combined is what caused it.

So again, if your growing Nirvanas 'ICE' strain.. be extra careful with them.



Good luck with yours buddy!

peace.

Thank all of you for your quick responses.
Yes, they are the same strain (Rocklock by the way). So, there is definitely something up with that one plant.
I sprayed some reverse w/ penetrator on it just in case. I guess only time will tell if it went back into veg or if the masses are an immature cluster of balls. I will update with new pictures when the answer reveals itself, but in the meantime I have a bunch more questions:
If it is a hermi, will seeds show up in my bud even if the male flowers never mature or open? Will a hermi pollinate my other plants or just cause seeds to grow in the bisexual one? Should I just pull that plant to protect the other ones? How much time do I have before shit starts getting pollinated?

dude pull it. nothing good can come from it (except seeds) if it is a hermi. you should know in a week or so. you will see clear balls forming at the base of where buds are. they will form right next to bud sites. The male bannana shape pollen sacks will not open up for a few weeks but when they do they will pollenate your entire garden. the pollen travels fast in the enclosed rooms. just 1 or 2 bananas will be enought pollenate many bud sites on all of your girls. if you havest the hermi before the pollen sacks open chances are the bud will not be that thc potent. if you try to pick all the bananas off you may have some chance of a decent harvest but yo are taking a chance of missing a sack and it opens. if the bud pistils are hit with even one grain of pollen bud production stops and seed production starts. no matter how late in the bloom cycle this happens if it does then you will have very little smokeable thc heavy buds. this isfrom experience and a lot of reading. I tryed to pinch all the bananas of of a train wreck plant last year. all i can say is I got seeds galore atleast 100 or more from 4 plants. and I would search everyday or other day to try to keep them from pollenating my ladies. i did get a lot of seed stock of a cross of train wreck and sour deisel but i wasnt trying to. and I am not sure if they will herm out too. just got a medicine bottle full of beans sitting. guess i will use them for an outside grow next spring and hope for no hermies.

if it goes back into veg it doesn't automatically go to seed its not getting 12/12 sleep so its regenerating its self. doesn't look hermie to me, maybe some more pics might help

the top of my plants did that after i had lights too close and bleached them. but so far you cant see them now a few weeks later (6th week) and no hemie.. i think it was my ph and the lights too close.. NO WORRIES MATE not 1 of mine are HERMI. ALL bud Tho I had the un normal growth like 1mo in.

RawBudzski said:

the top of my plants did that after i had lights too close and bleached them. but so far you cant see them now a few weeks later (6th week) and no hemie.. i think it was my ph and the lights too close.. NO WORRIES MATE not 1 of mine are HERMI. ALL bud Tho I had the un normal growth like 1mo in.

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I think you may have hit on something here. I have an air cooled reflector so I just let the plants grow right up to the glass. They are definately bleached out and the lower branches have hairy buds. But it is a little stange that the wierd bud formation only occured on one plant when there were other plants just as close to the light.

My fingers are crossed for light damage.

babbybubbles said:

I think you may have hit on something here. I have an air cooled reflector so I just let the plants grow right up to the glass. They are definately bleached out and the lower branches have hairy buds. But it is a little stange that the wierd bud formation only occured on one plant when there were other plants just as close to the light.

My fingers are crossed for light damage.

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If they are from seed and arent all clones from the same plant each one will have subtle differences in how it reacts to environmental variables. This is how stains "in the wild" survive through different environmental conditions. Drought may kill only 30% of plants while 70% will survive for example, there is alot of genetic diversity even within specimens of the same strain.