Hermie question: snip off seeds?

skimcpip

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So I have one plant growing just for personal use and it's almost in it's 6th week. It's definetly gone hermie. My question is:

If I can identify developing seeds, should I snip them off? Is there any reason to do this? Any reason not to?

Thanks!
 

SHOTTY6868

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really, the absplute best thing to do is toss that mother sucker. herms are bad news.just start u some more bro
 

skimcpip

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why? I'm not growing to sell. I've purchased plenty of mids with seeds in it. Will this be somehow worse?
 

skimcpip

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It's the weirdest thing. There's barely any seeds forming on the top more mature buds, but on the bottom it's seed city.
 

Babs34

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Total opposite for me Skim....all my seeds were up top and buds forming beautifully on the bottom---sucks, doesn't it? That plant was forming the stinky bud the fastest too. I'm still "lingering" to it.....I hate throwing it out. From what little I know, half of those seeds have a possibility of being female, while the other half are likely to be hermies.....but "all" will have the "hermie trait."
I wish an expert would tell me wth I should do with it. I really don't want to just chunk it to the garbage.
 

Stoney Jake

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are you sure you are seeing seeds and not pollen sacks? Got any pics? you can remove the sacks and still get good smoke and if its the only one you have then its not worth starting over at this point. You will be starting over in a few weeks anyway lol
 

skimcpip

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are you sure you are seeing seeds and not pollen sacks? Got any pics? you can remove the sacks and still get good smoke and if its the only one you have then its not worth starting over at this point. You will be starting over in a few weeks anyway lol
here are a couple pics where u can see what im talking about.
 

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skimcpip

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Anyway upon closer inspection there's defintely tons of seeds and bananas. That'll kill my yield. All those seed coulda just been bud. I picked off about 20 seeds. Wondering if I should do a bit of a premature harvest to prevent more seed production of just wait another couple weeks?
 

winkdogg420

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I have large top buds with no seeds alot of bottom popcorn buds with seeds??? I SNIPPED IT ALL OFF OF ONE OF MY PLANTS AND THE REST OF THE PLANT STOOD STILL NO GROWTH IN WEEKS?? MY OTHER PLANT JUST STARTED DOING IT ON THE BOTTON IM JUST GOING TO LEAVE IT ALONE AND GET THE FEMINIZED SEEDS FOR ANOTHER GROW SOMETIME!
 

skimcpip

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Judging on the leaf color that plant hermed because you stressed it with ????? A flush?? Why are all the leaves colorless?? Whatever did that made your herm seeds.
my guess is that I overwatered or overferted them. But I thought it's natural for the color to go away in flowering as all the energy goes into budding.

I did flush recently but I thought u r supposed around week 6.
 

skimcpip

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Definetly lots of dry leaves but some nice greenery not pictured up top. I think I overferted. Should I harvest prematurely? Right now I'd say the trichs are 60 clear 40 cloudy.
 

winkdogg420

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im not sure my plants are finishing wierd im harvesting when they look done it is not really gonna hurt my yeild just lettin mine grow!
 

Babs34

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Definitely a male on that last picture. From what I could see on the first pictures, which was very little (I'm blind as a bat), I'm guessing that you may have trimmed away a bit too much, therefore confusing your plant. If it were my plant, I'd go ahead and chop it----use those little buds for desperate times. (I've had a few too many of those.) I'd have to actually see the first picture in person to swear by it, but I thought I saw some actual seeds sporadically throughout....but then, you did say you collected them already, yes? It may be a combination of many things---too much trimming, carelessness with the plants light cycle, over/under fertilizing. I'm not snooty (like some posts I've read throughout RIU)----desperate times call for desperate measures. Dry it and smoke up. Try try again.
 
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