One plant full of seeds no hermes?

Jimmyjonestoo

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So I brought in my last little patch this weekend and one of 5 plants I brought in is packed full of seeds. No males or Hermes in the bunch and none of the surrounding plants have any seeds that I've found yet. This patch was out about 3 weeks longer than I had planned. So wtf happened? Are these seeds gonna be any good? I've never seen this before? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
 
So I brought in my last little patch this weekend and one of 5 plants I brought in is packed full of seeds. No males or Hermes in the bunch and none of the surrounding plants have any seeds that I've found yet. This patch was out about 3 weeks longer than I had planned. So wtf happened? Are these seeds gonna be any good? I've never seen this before? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

My bet is that though you couldn't see it (sometimes stray male flowers are in the buds), your plant self pollinated.

The fact you said you left it out 3 weeks longer reaffirms that this is probably the case, b/c plants that are keep out too long past peak harvest generally produce male flowers in a last ditch effort to pollinate the female. It's a survival technique by the marijuana plant to continue the plant's future generations.

Personally, I wouldn't dare start a seed from it, but people do it all the time. Just realize that your going to have to be extra careful in selection b/c they will have hermie tendencies.

Some will show early, some will show late and some will not show up until the future generations, but the herm gene will be more likely to come out b/c it was selfed.

Now, yes, even a male + female can have hermies, but the numbers are far greater in favor of having herms if a plant has been selfed naturally.
 
My bet is that though you couldn't see it (sometimes stray male flowers are in the buds), your plant self pollinated.

The fact you said you left it out 3 weeks longer reaffirms that this is probably the case, b/c plants that are keep out too long past peak harvest generally produce male flowers in a last ditch effort to pollinate the female. It's a survival technique by the marijuana plant to continue the plant's future generations.

Personally, I wouldn't dare start a seed from it, but people do it all the time. Just realize that your going to have to be extra careful in selection b/c they will have hermie tendencies.

Some will show early, some will show late and some will not show up until the future generations, but the herm gene will be more likely to come out b/c it was selfed.

Now, yes, even a male + female can have hermies, but the numbers are far greater in favor of having herms if a plant has been selfed naturally.

People used to tell me that self-pollinated beans would have a tendency to become hermaphrodites. So, I tried an experiment last Summer. Out of the 20 plants, not one resulting female had any hermaphroditic tendencies. 17 resulting plants were female, and the other 3 straight-up males. Not all strains will do this, but that was my experience.
 
Got this from a thread on MNS where Chimera talks about breeding intersex plants.

http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/65935-post912.html

What Chimera is responding to: "Considering the main argument against fem seeds is the fear of ingraining intersex traits, the issue needs to be addressed. Calling a hermie intersex does not make it go away. "

Chimera:
"The argument is based on poorly created methods of 'feminizing'... as I said in a previous post like Soma's RODELIZATION. His process is do select plants that will throw male flowers late in the cycle, and select the plants for the creation of 'feminized' seed. The problem with this method is the selection pressure is TOWARDS plants that show intersex traits- the very method of creating the seed selects for the trait. This will obviously lead the population TOWARDS intersexuality... LIKE BEGETS LIKE."

And another nice Chimera piece to give people a better understanding about breeding.

http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/6-breeders-support-information/6222-~cannabis-cross-pollinated-species~-5.html
 
Interesting read but I must say that most of it made no sense to me. I've never bred so I'm unfamiliar with some of the terms being used. Maybe I will try out the seeds and see what happens as I didn't get a chance to clone these before flower set in. Any opinions on whether or not it may be worth the try? I've got one yes and one no here. Anyone else have an opinion?
 
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