Please Help! It looks like 1 of my plants is a hermie

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 22, 2010

I have WW 5 weeks into flower and last night i found a few of the outside branchs with what i think are seeds... i have a pic what do you all think?

if it is hermie what shall i do;

do i cut of the branches where i see the seed pods so the rest of the plant can grow out?

do i kill it all together and try to save the other plant from turning the same way?

do i try to cut off all the little seed areas and keep growing it, will the bud be a load of rubbish and non potent?

any advice would be good as i am lost on this please help!!!!

Waggs · Apr 22, 2010

just had this problem with my wonder woman in week 6. I plucked them off yesterday the nanners.. more were back today.. so I harvested her. what do your trichs look like at this stage? mine were about half cloudy half clear.. im smoking a bud I quick dried now.. I think it will be fine lol . Good luck on yours!

I cant tell by the pix if you have nanners or not.. so dont call it a hermie on my reply.. That lil ball by your thumbnail doesnt really look like a seed pod. on second thought lol I cant really tell.. hmm this smoke must be better than I thought.

I never saw seeds in my hermie plant btw.. I caught the bananas as they started to form. did u see any of those?

jrinlv · Apr 22, 2010

Well what is in the pic looks like a seed developing and it dose not mean that branch in the hermie. Look at what might be causing this stress, have you grown this strain before. If you have and there was no problems then you have and environmental problem, i.e heat, light leak.

But as far as your plant, I think, once the plant starts making seeds, it changes it's focus in life and it will make seeds and not the dankest bud as it could be, again I think.

Let us know JR

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 22, 2010

Waggs said:
just had this problem with my wonder woman in week 6. I plucked them off yesterday the nanners.. more were back today.. so I harvested her. what do your trichs look like at this stage? mine were about half cloudy half clear.. im smoking a bud I quick dried now.. I think it will be fine lol . Good luck on yours!

I cant tell by the pix if you have nanners or not.. so dont call it a hermie on my reply.. That lil ball by your thumbnail doesnt really look like a seed pod. on second thought lol I cant really tell.. hmm this smoke must be better than I thought.

I never saw seeds in my hermie plant btw.. I caught the bananas as they started to form. did u see any of those?

If i understand you correctly the trichs are pretty much clear i have only started to notice a few dark hairs and i mean a few over the last few days. I am affraid i dont have a magnifine glass to give you a better answer!

here is a couple more pics the first is the two pods on the bit i cut off one is split open and the other i broke in half! the other pic may help you see how far along the plant is.

the other plant in my room doesnt show these at all and so far these pod things are only on maybe 30-40% of the plant!

darkdestruction420 · Apr 22, 2010

have you found any male flowers yet? determining which one hermied is important, that one(and any other hermies) needs to get chopped. the rest should be fine bud w/a few seeds which are guarenteed to be either female or hermie(pollinating another female w/pollen from a hermi is one of the ways to make fem seeds.)but if you start seeing seeds everywhere and your sure they are seeds and not caylxes or anything you should probally make them into hash, cuz if they are making seeds everywhere its best to start your next run asap.

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 22, 2010

jrinlv said:
Well what is in the pic looks like a seed developing and it dose not mean that branch in the hermie. Look at what might be causing this stress, have you grown this strain before. If you have and there was no problems then you have and environmental problem, i.e heat, light leak.

But as far as your plant, I think, once the plant starts making seeds, it changes it's focus in life and it will make seeds and not the dankest bud as it could be, again I think.

Let us know JR

This is my first grow... but the starin has a bad rep (cannabisseeds.com) 600 HPS in a 4x4x6 room has good air flow in and out temp 21 to 28 humid 52 to 70. I did have to bend the plants dramticly as they got to big for the room but this was 2 weeks ago now and since then they have been going well.

i had a few power cuts but agin this was several weeks ago and hte only light leaks would have been for seconds!

i am not sure what to do i dont want the other palnt to go like this if i can help it but i also dont want to kill this as 60% atleast has no sign of seeds growth

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 22, 2010

darkdestruction420 said:
have you found any male flowers yet? determining which one hermied is important, that one(and any other hermies) needs to get chopped. the rest should be fine bud w/a few seeds which are guarenteed to be either female or hermie(pollinating another female w/pollen from a hermi is one of the ways to make fem seeds.)but if you start seeing seeds everywhere and your sure they are seeds and not caylxes or anything you should probally make them into hash, cuz if they are making seeds everywhere its best to start your next run asap.

At the moment i have just two plants one is 30 40% with these little things but the other plant is 100% clean! also in my grow room i have 3 little cheese train wreck that are around 2/3 weeks old will they now be infected by this plant? i would be real pissed if i lost those as well

!!!

just to be clear you think i should go in now and pull that bad plant out straight away or just cut of the branches that show these little seed pods?

thanks so much for you help

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 23, 2010

Waggs said:
..... I never saw seeds in my hermie plant btw.. I caught the bananas as they started to form. did u see any of those?

I didnt see any of these bannana type things that i have seen on google when searching images... i cant get in the room for 7 hours! but i guess that means i wont make any rash actions but still i dont know what is for the best as i have been counting the days for months now (started in Feb) and would be sick if it all went south!!!

MrSoloDolo · Apr 23, 2010

Those look like developing seeds to me, not balls that turn into the banana looking parts. Did you have a male plant or do you currently have a male plant in your grow room? It looks like your girl is just 'pregnant'.
There should be calyx' at the top and then on the node right below it should be the balls forming, if it is a hermie. This 'ball' that you show is directly next to the calyx, which makes me think it is not a Herm.

Show a picture of the nodes.

Waggs · Apr 23, 2010

yes, finding the actual hermie is important if u have seeds in your buds.. or maybe u have a male plant? I see that was an actual seed..or am I really stoned.. looks like a seed in your second pictures there. ack. sorry to see that man. let us know how it goes and what you find. I was really bummed at first when I found out my big girl was a hermie.. but she smokes good

lol

Heres the bananas I found in my girl..

darkdestruction420 · Apr 23, 2010

by 2-3 weeks old you mean 2-3 weeks flowering, or 2-3 weeks vegging under 12/12? how many male flowers themselves have you found? if they are all over the place I wouldnt bother w/it and just chop it. a hermie cannot cause another plant to hermie, it will be more than happy to pollinate them on you though. since your other plants are fine i bet its a genetic hermie, otherwise the other plants should be doing it too, unless you have a light leak that only reaches the one plant. have any spare lights? If your not sure if its a stress or genetic hermie just go and remove the branches and keep it somewhere seperate and make sure it has absolutely no light stress while u wait to see if it starts doing it again. if its a stress hermie thats your best bet if you are gonna try to keep it. you should show us some more pics of the plant, especially where you see the problems. the more pics the more we can help.

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 23, 2010

MrSoloDolo said:
Those look like developing seeds to me, not balls that turn into the banana looking parts. Did you have a male plant or do you currently have a male plant in your grow room? It looks like your girl is just 'pregnant'.
There should be calyx' at the top and then on the node right below it should be the balls forming, if it is a hermie. This 'ball' that you show is directly next to the calyx, which makes me think it is not a Herm.

Show a picture of the nodes.

Hi solo thanks for your help,

I had 9 WW plants (seeds from cannabisseeds.com, very very cheap!!) and i did think two of them were male the others i just chopped as risk space etc, now i have just two WW plants at 5 weeks flower and 3 plants at 2 weeks in flower (these are flower from seed and have not shown their sex yet, not even close, around 3inchs tall, attitude feminized seeds).

i cant get more pics for another 6 hours so please please come back and take a look at the pics as i really need help on this

for now though here are the two WW a just under 2 weeks ago. Ill take pics of the cheese+train wreck but i am sure these are not the cause as they are so young!!

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 23, 2010

darkdestruction420 said:
by 2-3 weeks old you mean 2-3 weeks flowering, or 2-3 weeks vegging under 12/12? how many male flowers themselves have you found? if they are all over the place I wouldnt bother w/it and just chop it. a hermie cannot cause another plant to hermie, it will be more than happy to pollinate them on you though. since your other plants are fine i bet its a genetic hermie, otherwise the other plants should be doing it too, unless you have a light leak that only reaches the one plant. have any spare lights? If your not sure if its a stress or genetic hermie just go and remove the branches and keep it somewhere seperate and make sure it has absolutely no light stress while u wait to see if it starts doing it again. if its a stress hermie thats your best bet if you are gonna try to keep it. you should show us some more pics of the plant, especially where you see the problems. the more pics the more we can help.

Dark,

just to recap i have 2 WW (cannabiseeds.com) at 5 weeks and 3 cheese+trainwreck (attitude feminized) at just under 2 weeks which i have grown staright from seed in the 12/12 room.

the only way light can be getting in could be through this hole (see pic6) this is onthe side of my 4x4x6 with a fan pointing at it to push some fresh air in. This area of the plant that is showing these seed pods is nearest to that whole... the room the 4x4x6 structure is in is in darkness with maybe just a light leak from small cracks around the door frame of the bedroom the grow room sits in... could this really be the cause? (keep in mind this pic was taken during the first week of flowering, will send more recent pics in a few hours)

i will have more pics in 6 hours so please stay with me on this as i only have these two plants and i would like to do my best to keep as much of it as i can without sacraficing the other one

thanks for you time i really apprciate it!

darkdestruction420 · Apr 23, 2010

it wont effect your young ones probally, water is enough to neutralize any pollen that might be on them now ive heard (never had to do it so i cant say 100% from personal experience)so just mist them, just make sure not to do it when the lights will be on, do it right before the dark perdiod so it doesnt magnify the light and burn the plants. If you know the one is a hermie but really want to keep it(which is very understandable, i still have problems chopping any hermies sometimes) i'd do like i said before, just go and remove the bad branches and chop just little bits of the branch off and not a whole branch if possible. and keep the hermie somewhere seperate and make sure it has absolutely no light stress while u wait to see if it starts doing it again

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 26, 2010

darkdestruction420 said:
it wont effect your young ones probally, water is enough to neutralize any pollen that might be on them now ive heard (never had to do it so i cant say 100% from personal experience)so just mist them, just make sure not to do it when the lights will be on, do it right before the dark perdiod so it doesnt magnify the light and burn the plants. If you know the one is a hermie but really want to keep it(which is very understandable, i still have problems chopping any hermies sometimes) i'd do like i said before, just go and remove the bad branches and chop just little bits of the branch off and not a whole branch if possible. and keep the hermie somewhere seperate and make sure it has absolutely no light stress while u wait to see if it starts doing it again

Dark,

When i got into the room on Friday night the seeds had taken over

so i chopped the whole plant and now 1 remains. I can see the same thing happening to this one so i guess i could put this down to a band strain but ill keep cutting little bits off and try to keep going for as long as possible.

the little ones i have in the room are still very early but ill take pics of them tonight as i am now worried that they will be turned by these shity cannabisseeds.com plants! I misted them just before the lights went off last night but still they are in the room with the big plant that is 5+ weeks into flower with a few seed pods jotted around some branches.

Is there a time frame where palnts cant be pollenated? or should i get my little cheese trainwrecks out the room asap? as i want to grow the cannabisseeds.com plant for a couple more weeks to see what i can salvage from it!

darkdestruction420 · Apr 27, 2010

I'd seperate them.

goonerbeatyaa · Apr 28, 2010

darkdestruction420 said:
I'd seperate them.

Thanks dark for you continued assistance +rep

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