FUCK - hermi

Alright my ghs trainwreck fem started tossing bananas that i didnt notice, she has a couple seeds but most branches are still producing fresh pistils. my Kushberry fem however was downwind and is getting seeded up pretty hard.

They are in week 6 flower pics are in my journal. What should I do? Im thinking chop the trainwreck nugs that got seeded and stay ontop of the bananas let the rest finish. chop the kushberry to try and save whatever bud I can, cuz she looks like she is going to fill with seeds. that my best bet?

im pissed everything was going so well and i thought I was checking well enough for bananas. You'd think I had a male in the room though with how the kushberry is starting to seed up, oddly none of the other like 8 plants look like they got any pollen.

DAMN man!!!!! I'm fuckin sorry to hear that! Do you happen to have any pix? I've never seen a hermy brfore, and It'd just be good ta know, ya know?..

Sorry again dog... :/

-Hookd

HookdOnChronics said:

DAMN man!!!!! I'm fuckin sorry to hear that! Do you happen to have any pix? I've never seen a hermy brfore, and It'd just be good ta know, ya know?..

Sorry again dog... :/

-Hookd

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I can take a pic of what is left of the banana's I picked, and/or of the seeded kushberry tomorrow, as lights just turned off. Other pics of the plants are in my journal in my sig, but I dont think you can see the seeded parts or bananas in those pics, so check back 2morow.

They are really obvious though, not in size (they start off tiny), but they stand out because they have no resin on them. So at week 6 it is very easy to tell when a male part or seed starts to form cuz it looks like vegetative growth amongst all the resin.

If there is any good news to this, it is that the trainwreck and kushberry are pretty far along, even though we are at week6 i think they are actually at week 7 in development. Certainly as crystally as my outdoor trainwreck was. So if i decide to chop those 2 tomorrow to try and avoid the others getting pollinated, or at least the kushberry and part of the trainwreck, it should still be good smoke.

I just hope to Jesus that my sleestack x skunk doesn't get seeded. If she survives as a virgin that is all that matters.

It's time to buy some bubble bags and make that hermie into hash. Also, if you're careful you can pick off those bananas and let it finish out, although the quality of the smoke will be reduced(because the plant puts it's energy into making seeds, rather than producing resins).

My plants had a similar problem awhile back, and i was also surprised that only two got pollinated, while the other 6 were perfectly seed-free. Strange, considering that you hear that a little pollen will wreak havoc if it's anywhere near the females in bloom. Hmm...*scratches head*LOL

well you could leave the kushberry because the seeds will then be a trainwreck x kushberry cross. sounds bomb to me. she is already seeded up. just kill the tw. itll be a never ending battle and you dont want to pollinate the rest. but keep the kushberry seeds and send some my way haha. man that sounds tasty you could call it trainberry kush haha. your own strain.

Trainberry kush, thet sounds good

Im the self proclaimed master of hermies, I went through a two year stretch that I had nothing but herms. Can't believe I'm still growing after that bout.

Anyway, keep in mind, that pollen isn't going to seed your plants in as obvious of a way as you might think. The big problem is going to be the Kushberry. I'll bet money that if you go full term with that KB, she'll have mini-seeds in her. You'll know if this is happening if your pistils are dying off really fast and shriveling up abnormally and losing all moisture in the base of the pistol. (like you harvested, but you haven't)...and your trichs aren't clouding up at the same rate.

In my times with herms, if you're lucky, the seeds are big enough to pop out, if not, its the worst kind of hemp hell. I don't care what anybody says, herm weed makes me want to do the Technicolor Yawn <-thats fancy talk for Puke, when I exhale that rancid pull.

My advice used to be, "oh shit, finish it off, smoke what you got"...but these days, I"m too jaded, I say, Give it the machete. Then use a diluted bleach/water and spray your grow area and kill off that lingering plant-nut.

ElectricPineapple said:

well you could leave the kushberry because the seeds will then be a trainwreck x kushberry cross. sounds bomb to me. she is already seeded up. just kill the tw. itll be a never ending battle and you dont want to pollinate the rest. but keep the kushberry seeds and send some my way haha. man that sounds tasty you could call it trainberry kush haha. your own strain.

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Cool!

And they will also grow up to be hermi.

Fem'ed seeds are looking to be less and less of a good thing IMO.

Wet

so seeds from a hermied plant that pollinates a femd kushberry, make the hermie seeds? i dont see how that would work unless the hermie is a dominant trait, which in a fem seed usually isnt. hermie can come from lots of things. light stress, light leaks, heat stress.

Wetdog said:

Cool!

And they will also grow up to be hermi.

Fem'ed seeds are looking to be less and less of a good thing IMO.

Wet

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It's too late into flowering for the kush to create fully developed seeds.

There's different ways to make fem and quasi fem seeds.

Well thanks for all the replies, just to give ya an update, I havn't chopped any of them. Lost about 30% of the kushberry to seed but it is still putting out new pistils on the uneffected buds, although I don't doubt it won't be as potent as it could have been. The trainwreck has a few seeds, not a big deal, and is throwing out a banana or 2 per day. Going to flush the wreck and kberry hopefully once more then chop. They are rdy for it any day now anyways.

My other plants seem to be unaffected so far, so all in all it's not as bad as I initially thought. Whether I will use fem'd seeds again I am not sure. Hopefully one of the strains i am growing will turn out to be a new favorite and hopefully it is available in reg form. On the other hand, I still have 2 kushberry fem seeds left and the ghs trainwreck is looking like it is still going to be a strain i'd like to keep because of its insane resin production and smell/taste, so I have a feeling I may be using fem'd seeds again until I can find a strain that gets me as lit as the trainwreck. Tbh if i had of been keeping a better eye on the banana's there would be no seeds.

This happened to me in week 6 as well. I'm just gonna pull bananas as I find them but have already found some that have released pollin. I have read that you end up with feminized seeds.Is this true? How much further than suggested flower time would they have to go to make it a seed harvest? I'm bummed out just like you cause things were going great and then it warmed up here for week and I was using outdoor air to cool and temps got to 100 degrees sometimes for a week so I think that did it. My first grow went flawlessly and I got some good ww and jedi but not sure how to go forward with this problem either. Hope it works out for you.

dudeluv said:

This happened to me in week 6 as well. I'm just gonna pull bananas as I find them but have already found some that have released pollin. I have read that you end up with feminized seeds.Is this true? How much further than suggested flower time would they have to go to make it a seed harvest? I'm bummed out just like you cause things were going great and then it warmed up here for week and I was using outdoor air to cool and temps got to 100 degrees sometimes for a week so I think that did it. My first grow went flawlessly and I got some good ww and jedi but not sure how to go forward with this problem either. Hope it works out for you.

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If a fem that's gone hermie pollinates another fem OR itself you will get fem'd seeds but they will all carry the genetic trait to hermie. this is not as bad as you may think, and is natural for the plant to do so if it is stressed. I'm currently growing from seeds that are from a fem gone hermie and pollinating itself. No banana's to speak of. Some strains stress easier, some just have a higher tendancy to herm. Not sure on how much longer you'd have to go for a seed harvest, I just let mine go until I see some of the seed bracts cracking open with nice dark seeds showing...

filter funker said:

If a fem that's gone hermie pollinates another fem OR itself you will get fem'd seeds but they will all carry the genetic trait to hermie. this is not as bad as you may think, and is natural for the plant to do so if it is stressed. I'm currently growing from seeds that are from a fem gone hermie and pollinating itself. No banana's to speak of. Some strains stress easier, some just have a higher tendancy to herm. Not sure on how much longer you'd have to go for a seed harvest, I just let mine go until I see some of the seed bracts cracking open with nice dark seeds showing...

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Thanks for the info. It sucks also cause I have to work out of town for a few nights and won't be around to pull off bananas for a few days. Oh well live and learn.