Omg, I've just noticed some ball lookin things on my female plant!

BaMenace

Member
Hey growers, just went outside to talk to my little girls this morning and I noticed one of my females has changed a little. She's a lot more bushier round the trunk and her little brown hairs , and in amongst it all i found three small circular balls in three different parts of the plant. I pulled them off and I'm pretty sure they were full of white dust.

Question is now what happens? My mate said if its gone hermaph, I could castrate it and it will go back female. Is this true?
Can a girly/boy pollenate itself?
will it just grow more balls?

Ive got5 remaining plants now, 1 in the cupboard and 4 outside in the garden, should I leave it be or feed it to my parrot like the last boy I found?

Last boy execution :
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/Daniel_Sutton/17a8cec9.jpg

Took suspect balls off
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/Daniel_Sutton/ee442c45.jpg

My baby girl in bloom!
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/Daniel_Sutton/254d902d.jpg

Other chicks in the yard
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/Daniel_Sutton/68c67b5a.jpg
 

0calli

Well-Known Member
Beautiful girls also
hey growers, just went outside to talk to my little girls this morning and i noticed one of my females has changed a little. She's a lot more bushier round the trunk and her little brown hairs , and in amongst it all i found three small circular balls in three different parts of the plant. I pulled them off and i'm pretty sure they were full of white dust.

Question is now what happens? My mate said if its gone hermaph, i could castrate it and it will go back female. Is this true?
Can a girly/boy pollenate itself?
Will it just grow more balls?

Ive got5 remaining plants now, 1 in the cupboard and 4 outside in the garden, should i leave it be or feed it to my parrot like the last boy i found?

Last boy execution :
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/daniel_sutton/17a8cec9.jpg

took suspect balls off
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/daniel_sutton/ee442c45.jpg

my baby girl in bloom!
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/daniel_sutton/254d902d.jpg

other chicks in the yard
http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l635/daniel_sutton/68c67b5a.jpg
 

KidneyStoner420

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PlumCrazy

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Wash your hands/arms real good after removing those. Don't wanna accidently pollinate a female. If possible keep it away from the rest of the crop.
 

BaMenace

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??? Really? I've got a whole album of photos there



Yeah I've been using latex gloves and not going near my other baby girls.

Will the girly boy regrow the balls that I've removed or continue being a girl?
 

Papaoscartango

Active Member
I bet the plant will continue to herm & be a problem in the future. You just can't keep up with the picking. I've used Reverse b4......it worked on a plant that was just slightly hermed & failed on this plant that was just covered in balls.
Otherwise she's gatta go.
 

BaMenace

Member
lol whats wrong with you man! dont get that poor bird high. lol
Lol they do it in the wild, eat fruits and grasses. What else should I have done with it? I just freaked out when it was a boy, can I do anything with them at this early stage other than bin it? But then I got evidence in my wheelie bin, should get a compost bin.
 

0calli

Well-Known Member
i blend mine the flush hehehe
Lol they do it in the wild, eat fruits and grasses. What else should I have done with it? I just freaked out when it was a boy, can I do anything with them at this early stage other than bin it? But then I got evidence in my wheelie bin, should get a compost bin.
 

0calli

Well-Known Member
ohhhh really then you tell me how they do it after reading this ok


Creating feminized marijuana seeds
there are a few different methods of application. I have written about some of my different methods of making cannabis seeds in previous HIGH TIMES articles. I have use gibberellic acid, light stress, ph stress, and fertilizer stress to force my plants to make marijuana seeds. All these methods are harsh on the plants, and some like the gibbrellic acid, are not organic. In my search for cleaner more earth-friendly ways of working with the cannabis plant, I have found a new way to make feminized cannabis seeds.

Feminized seeds occur as a result of stress, other than genetics. All cannabis plants can and will make male flowers under stress. Certain strains like a higher PH, some like a lower one. Some like a lot of food, some like a lot less. There is quite a lot of variety in marijuana genetics, and you can’t treat every plant the same way.
It takes many harvests before you really get to know a particular strain. Just like getting to know human friends, it takes time. I have grown strains for a decade and am truly getting to know every nuance the different plants exhibit. I can recognize them from a distance. I must say that I get a lot of help from my friends, both in making marijuana seeds and learning new and better ways of working with this sacred plant.
I named this new method “Rodelization” after a friend who helped me realize and make use of this way of creating female cannabis seeds. After growing crop after crop of the same plant in the same conditions, I noticed that if I flowered the plants 10-14 days longer than usual, they would develop male “bananas”. A male banana is a very slight male flower on a female marijuana plant that is formed because of stress. Usually they do not let out any pollen early enough to make marijuana seeds, but they sometimes do. They are a built in safety factor so in case of sever conditions, the plant can make sure that the species is furthered.
To me a male banana is quite a beautiful thing. It has the potential of making all female pot seeds. Many growers out there have male banana phobia. They see one and have heart palpitations, they want to cut down the entire crop or at least take tweezers and pluck the little yellow emerging devices out. I call them “Emergency Devices” because they emerge at times of stress.
In the Rodelization method, the male banana is very valuable. After growing your female plant 10-14 days longer than usual, hang them up to dry, then carefully take them off the drying lines and inspect for bananas. Each and every banana should be removed and placed in a small bag labeled very accurately. These sealed bags can be placed in the fridge for one to two months and still remain potent.
For the second phase you need to already have a crop that’s already 2 ½ weeks into flowering. Take your sealed bag of pollen out of the fridge, and proceed to impregnate your new crop of females. To do this, you must first match the female plant and the pollen from the same strain in the previous crop. Shut down all the fans in the grow room. Then take a very fine paint brush, dip it in the bag of pollen, and paint it on the female flower. Do this to each different strain you have growing together. I have done it with ten different kinds in the same room with great success.
I use the lower flowers to make weed seeds, leaving the top colas seedless for smoking. This method takes time(two crops), but is completely organic and lets you have great quality smoke at the same time you make your female cannabis seeds. If you’re one of those growers that has never grown marijuana seeds for fear of not having something good to smoke, you will love this method.
You can also use this pollen to make new female crosses by cross pollinating. The older females with the bananas can be brought into the room with the younger, un-pollinated females when they are three weeks into flowering. Turn all of the circulation fans on high, and the little bits of pollen will proceed to make it around the room. Do this for several days. Six to seven weeks later you will have ripe 100% female seeds; not nearly as many as a male plant would make, but enough to start over somewhere else with the same genetics.
As a farmer who has been forced to move his genetics far away from where they started, I know very well the value of seeds. My friend Adam from THSeeds in Amsterdam has a motto that I love to borrow these days: “Drop seeds not bombs”.
Soma



So not true man... Ive had many run in's back when I started growing bag seed hermie weed....Hermie seeds will almost if not always give you hermie plants ....
 
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