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Is this plant a hermaphrodite?

ithinkiam

Member
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It is flowering. It has pistils. But on 2 areas of the main stem there are little pods forming where the female flower should be growing.

Are these male seeds or pollen or what? Can I remove them to prevent pollination?
 

Euphrates

Member
Good picture, as far as clarity goes. So those balls are what male plants have, I 've seen a couple but wasn't sure if its a female which pistils haven't showed yet, which would be unusual for the age of the plant. also there seemed to be only one footballish shape ball on the node, which confuses me. Kind of looks like a female, but doesn’t .
 

ithinkiam

Member
I'm going to wrap them with saran wrap. The plant isn't covered with these pods luckily. And it is flowering quite well. So. :)
 

Vash

Ol' Skool
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Hermi...??
All day long. Who's is it? Depends on how many of those balls you got whether it would be adviseable to remove them or not. Most people would trash that. Others would let that thing self-pollenate and the resulting seeds would be predominantly female - carrying that hermi trait, of course.
 

GrnMtnGrwr

Active member
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If it is as you said just on that one node, and everything else is female, you could just pluck those off and keep a close eye on that plant if you want. This of course carries the risk of you missing some down the line and pollinating your crop. It's your call on if the risk/reward is worth keeping it.
 

Fuel

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You win. Relaunch seeds then kill it the time the balls are not expanding to buds.
 
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