Hermie in 2nd week flower | Few balls on lower branch

Good morning guys, last night I checked the plants thoroughly and found that one of the plants was hermaphrodite. No, I am not talking about bananas or nanners but really the balls.
(I am at the beginning of the third week of flowering).
I noticed that the plant produced single balls (so not clusters) coming out of some lower nodes and I found nothing near the flowers. Some balls were oddly placed directly on the length of the branch and not directly in the nodes. The balls were mostly in one of the two apicals and in the branches produced always from the apicals and were totally immature.
I proceeded to manually remove all the hanging balls attached to the branches and removed some of the apical top branching (they would not have received light anyway) and it seems that ,after hours of careful inspection, there are none left.
I have seen many cases of hermaphroidism where there were countless clusters, half-female and half-male flowers etc. and this is not my case also because I repeat that at most I found two balls close together but nothing more. In your opinion could the situation worsen with time? I found a plant of the same genetics with only one ball in an internode but nothing else and every day I will see to be as careful as possible but cutting everything is not feasible since it would be the last cycle before summer and I would like your opinion about it.
I thank you in advance

Pics would help
Thanks in advance

Herb & Suds said:

Pics would help
Thanks in advance

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tonight ,as soon as i get home, i'll take some pictures! actually i already removed everything so i wouldn't be able to show you where they were placed but i have some branches that i cut with some balls and i could show you those pictures. as soon as i saw the first ball i didn't think twice and started to remove and inspect without thinking at all about taking a picture

Herb & Suds said:

Pics would help
Thanks in advance

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Here you go! I retrieved these branches and the last picture is just so you can see where I had found a ball that I have now removed.
Tell me what you think.... I had problems related to the landlord and had to move all the plants in one afternoon after 5 days from the switch! they drove 2km and were locked in bags for about 2 hours but it was the only thing I could do to not get caught.
I thought it was just one and thought it was a genetic problem but another plant from another seed bank produced the same balls and in the same manner/quantity.

here's the picture I was telling you where I circled where I found a ball...kind of strange no?

Pretty common keep a good eye on it, If balls keep forming might be time to trash it.

thumper60 said:

Pretty common keep a good eye on it, If balls keep forming might be time to trash it.

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Eh unfortunately I already knew how it was going to turn out with the crappy genetics I had on my hands , surely the trip and the new house have kicked in . I'm devoting an hour a day just to inspection! So far I'm just removing what I missed and examining internode by internode but it doesn't seem to be continuing to churn out balls! I just hope I don't have to live this life for too long....

You’re chasing your tail, even with your best efforts, you’re gonna miss a few and end up with sub par seeded weed. If it was me, I’d chop it. Why risk pollinating the non hermies, all you’ll end up with is, seeded weed, and bad seeds at that!.

Phytoplankton said:

You’re chasing your tail, even with your best efforts, you’re gonna miss a few and end up with sub par seeded weed. If it was me, I’d chop it. Why risk pollinating the non hermies, all you’ll end up with is, seeded weed, and bad seeds at that!.

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You are right and if it had happened two months ago I would have wasted no time and cut everything but as I said it is the last cycle before the summer and cutting it off now would lead me to start with the cycles again in September and where I live grass costs an inordinate amount in addition to the difficulty in finding it! I just wanted an opinion from more experienced eyes ,understand the severity of the situation and take some advice about it excluding cutting regardless. Unfortunately the stress they have suffered has been quite heavy and as I said above the other genetics also came out a few balls and we are at 3/4

Blackketch said:

You are right and if it had happened two months ago I would have wasted no time and cut everything but as I said it is the last cycle before the summer and cutting it off now would lead me to start with the cycles again in September and where I live grass costs an inordinate amount in addition to the difficulty in finding it! I just wanted an opinion from more experienced eyes ,understand the severity of the situation and take some advice about it excluding cutting regardless. Unfortunately the stress they have suffered has been quite heavy and as I said above the other genetics also came out a few balls and we are at 3/4

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Under your circumstances the best thing to do would be to pluck and grow. If you can't grow again until next September it makes no sense to trash those plants over the possibility of a few seeds. Finish out the grow. If you get a few seeds you get a few seeds. At least you'll have some smoke for the summer.

Good luck.

I don't think seeded weed is sub par. Carry on you'll be fine..

HydoDan said:

I don't think seeded weed is sub par. Carry on you'll be fine..

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It isn't. I've never understand why some are ready to trash plants after months of growing because they might get a few seeds. I think much of it must come from them not actually growing plants for seeds and then smoking the weed to really know. Or they equate all seeded weed to the old Mexican brick weed.

Well grown good genetics will be good with or without seeds. Quite a bit of the weed I smoke comes from plants I've pollinated and have more than just a few seeds. It's been getting me high for years. Smoking some seeded Durbistan/Sinai that I dusted again with Durban Poison pollen and it's damn good weed. Just got to make sure you don't miss a seed as that isn't good to smoke. I have small labeled containers I use to put the seeds in as I pick them out to keep all the different crosses I make separate.

xtsho said:

It isn't. I've never understand why some are ready to trash plants after months of growing because they might get a few seeds. I think much of it must come from them not actually growing plants for seeds and then smoking the weed to really know. Or they equate all seeded weed to the old Mexican brick weed.

Well grown good genetics will be good with or without seeds. Quite a bit of the weed I smoke comes from plants I've pollinated and have more than just a few seeds. It's been getting me high for years. Smoking some seeded Durbistan/Sinai that I dusted again with Durban Poison pollen and it's damn good weed. Just got to make sure you don't miss a seed as that isn't good to smoke. I have small labeled containers I use to put the seeds in as I pick them out to keep all the different crosses I make separate.

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I grew out a full blown hermie several years ago, just to see what would happen..
I ended up with about 10,000 worthless seeds and some of the best dry sift I've ever had..
Nothin wrong with seeds as long as you remove them before consumption.. POP!

xtsho said:

It isn't. I've never understand why some are ready to trash plants after months of growing because they might get a few seeds. I think much of it must come from them not actually growing plants for seeds and then smoking the weed to really know. Or they equate all seeded weed to the old Mexican brick weed.

Well grown good genetics will be good with or without seeds. Quite a bit of the weed I smoke comes from plants I've pollinated and have more than just a few seeds. It's been getting me high for years. Smoking some seeded Durbistan/Sinai that I dusted again with Durban Poison pollen and it's damn good weed. Just got to make sure you don't miss a seed as that isn't good to smoke. I have small labeled containers I use to put the seeds in as I pick them out to keep all the different crosses I make separate.

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@HydoDan
Thank you guys very much you have comforted me a little! I agree with you in fact it was more of a thread based on getting opinions and advice on how best to handle the situation and if there was any particular area to watch out for etc.. I'm definitely not complaining about a few seeds but still if it was the only one showing balls I would have even considered cutting it down to avoid problems for the sisters and for my pollen allergy ravaging me