Female Clone but found 3 Seeds....?

Ok, I am in the process of harvesting my girl. I'm suspecting I will get about 3-4oz from the 1 plant dry, right now I am taking a break. Weird thing is, when I was trimmin her up, I noticed one of the cylaxes.. not sure the spelling is right there.. but the cylaxe was a little more opened up and something was popping out.. So I pried her apart and all-b-damned if there wasn't a healthy looking seed in there. Nice and brown with some black markings on it, further investigating I found 2 more on that bud.. anyways.. fucked up thing is that this plant came from a Female clone. The dude I got this clone from did produce seeds and he swears he didn't have any males around. So after I found these 3 seeds on that one bud I started looking at all my buds but I couldn't find anymore seeds. I am about half way done harvesting and will post if I find more.

I am wondering if it is possibly something I did or if a Clone from a Hermi.. is going to be a Hermi in the end too? I plan to plant these babies but I have already taken 4 more clones from this plant and wondering if those fuckers will produce seeds too? Is there a chance the seeds will be hermi also.. from what I understood they should be female.. or am I wrong?

I googled this a million times and didn't get quite as specific of an answer as I was hoping... So anyone with some experienced advice, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

I forgot to add, this was the only plant I had growing at the time so I know there was absolutely no males around... while she was flowering, there was a few other plants in the Veg room but again, none are males OR flowering.

someone posted in another thread that this occurrence is normal for some strains late in flowering. he dais it is not a hermie or pollination from another male. some females will just produce a seed or 2, or 3

how long was it flowering for?

It is likely your female was accidentally pollinated. Pollen is very tiny and is very resilient. Transfer is easy, the source being hands or clothes.

Germinate them bitches and grow 'em.

Good luck and good growing.

I agree with Mr. Organic. It would be so easy for some pollen to have gotten onto your clothing, hair, shoes, and it just takes a few grains to do the job.

is it true that the longer a plant is flowering the more likely it is to go hermi?

because it's trying to keep itself going, through seeds?

or am i insane? possibly....

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I have not been around ANY male plants for at least 7 months so unless there was some male pollen floating in the air outside, no pollen should have been on myself.

She was flowering for 61 Days before the trich's turned about 40% amber, which is when I cut.

To sum it up, I am 200% sure there was NO pollen in my house unless some bioatch is growing some males around my house, which my closest neighbor is about half mile away and are old farmers, so i HIGHLY doubt that was the case.

I was leaning more towards something I did wrong, possibly Ph (I checked PH every 3-4 days, going to start Ph'ing everyday now though) and I over nuted her once but not Terribly bad. I've read several threads saying a plant can go herm with any stress but I just thought it was odd to see only 3 seeds, on 1 bud and then none anywhere else.

Fuck it- I'll plant these 3 bitches, keep my clones and just keep a close eye for some ball sacks when its time. heh, I just thought- its winter up here so there would be no males outside anywhere. Crazy shit. Either way- I appreciate all the replies fella's.

If this has happen to anyone and they where 100% positive there was no male pollination, please let me know what the hell you think would have caused this. A couple seeds isn't bad to me, but I don't really want to grow 4 hermi plants if I don't have to.

A female will sometimes pollenate itself (like a tiny mutation) as a last ditch effort to reproduce. It was coming to the end of its life cycle without any seeds, so it probably hermied ever so slightly to continue the survival of the species. Nature is amazing, huh?

SenorSanteria said:

A female will sometimes pollenate itself (like a tiny mutation) as a last ditch effort to reproduce. It was coming to the end of its life cycle without any seeds, so it probably hermied ever so slightly to continue the survival of the species. Nature is amazing, huh?

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Haha, if there wasn't enough stoners to keep the weed plant from extinction mother natures got our back. I like that lol +rep

A plant will normally only hermie if it's stressed, if a plant is treated well all it's life chances are it will be a lovely girl. I read a thread on here a while ago by someone who said a plant grown from any old, non-feminized seed will almost always be female if it's cared for properly. I've germed 20+ seeds and never had a male, so I must be doing something right!

Hairy Bob,

What I understood was that;

A seed germed from a Hermi'd female plant, not male pollen, is what they call 'Feminized' seeds. So in my case, those 3 seeds SHOULD be female because there was no Male chromosome (at least not that I know or see possible) to change the Females... uhh DNA?? lol not sure what to call it but I think its something right along those lines.

Your germ rate is unheard of unless your just one lucky son of a bitch. Most likely you got a bunch feminized seeds. If not though, congrats man- fuck growin pot go play the lotto bro

I'm going to stick with the accidental transfer possibility. That would explain why you only have three seeds. An individual pollen is invisible to the naked eye and could have been accidentally introduced to your plants without your knowledge. Pollen can travel for miles.

If you had a hermie in your grow, you would have seen evidence of male parts on at least one of your plants by now. Hermies don't bust pollen and then disappear the male parts.

Johnnyorganic said:

I'm going to stick with the accidental transfer possibility. That would explain why you only have three seeds. An individual pollen is invisible to the naked eye and could have been accidentally introduced to your plants without your knowledge. Pollen can travel for miles.

If you had a hermie in your grow, you would have seen evidence of male parts on at least one of your plants by now. Hermies don't bust pollen and then disappear the male parts.

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I was just thinking.. Another one of my buddies had some starting and I went over to help him determine if they were Male or Female, but they were only pre-flowers... Maybe some got on me then but I thought the pre flowers were just that, pre. Could just be tho.

Thanks for showin the concern bro and everyone else who posted.. I think my original question has been answered or at least gave me a few idea's as to what happened. Appreciate it all

Time to finish clippin

There is a scale of hermie expression, some show obviously and polinate a ton, others you'd swear were 100% female yet contain a few mystery seeds..
For all you know, a little pollen leaked out of a nearby fellow grower's garden, and got into yours some how..
Perhaps you did trigger it to herm slightly, perhaps its pretty much predisposed to herm slightly..
They're all valid guesses until you have more experience with these genetics..

one thing i would think is. The plant that you cloned it from was exposed to a male plant. I'm thinking that maybe the even tho the uncloned plant didnt spit off seeds, the clone did.. could be a rare case there.

Def. My buddy was growing outside and had about 8-10 plants going, Out of those 6 turned out female. Now he's quite the greenthumb and taught me everything I know about growing outside - he's been at it for a good 20 years or so. Anyways these plants turn into ten foot tall monster plants with colas the size of my calf and low and behold upon harvest, what did we find? Buds completely PACKED with seeds. I'm talking a good 4 pounds of herb COMPLETELY packed with seed. We decided to take a little walk and see if we could find the culprit. Turns out some kids started a grow out in the woods behind his house and planted about 20 plants. Whether they didn't know what they were doing or they got busted for something else, they never came back to fish out the males- or collect their females. But my buddy suffered bad. Goes to show how far pollen can travel. ( it was a good half mile into the woods.)

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Def. My buddy was growing outside and had about 8-10 plants going, Out of those 6 turned out female. Now he's quite the greenthumb and taught me everything I know about growing outside - he's been at it for a good 20 years or so. Anyways these plants turn into ten foot tall monster plants with colas the size of my calf and low and behold upon harvest, what did we find? Buds completely PACKED with seeds. I'm talking a good 4 pounds of herb COMPLETELY packed with seed. We decided to take a little walk and see if we could find the culprit. Turns out some kids started a grow out in the woods behind his house and planted about 20 plants. Whether they didn't know what they were doing or they got busted for something else, they never came back to fish out the males- or collect their females. But my buddy suffered bad. Goes to show how far pollen can travel. ( it was a good half mile into the woods.)

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ouch man very sorry to hear about that, it mustve been pretty painful.

anyway the whole thing doesnt sound that bad if you only found 3 seeds i wouldnt worry about it, not like it ruined your plants or anything

Well, we got all the " Skunk 1 x whatever " seeds we could ever want, thats for sure.

I would assume they're feminized as well.