5 wks into flower and got some nanners

[use]

My first grow is 4 plants from bagseed. They are all showing lots of flowering budsites, and a nice showing of trichs on the leaves around the budsites. But I have also discovered a couple nanners per plant.

What is my course of action here? Is it okay to pluck these nanners and stay on course?

 

[use]

 

[ChardIr]

Hey there Use,
I don't have the answer. I just wanted to give you a little shout out about the good quality photo. I have heard of nanners on a female plant but didn't know what they look like. This is a good reference for me in the future. It will give me something to hope to never see! My inexperienced guess would be to cut it out and keep on growing! Except for the nanner it is starting to look very tasty!

All the best!

 

[opt1c]

wow; that's all u got for 5 weeks; gonna be a long flowering one for sure.... u can pluck em but you'll really have to keep a close eye on the plants

i recommend getting any seeds by bog; never seen a nanner on one

 

[use]

It's most likely from some Miami haze. One friend told me 95 days, another said it could take 120 days. I'm just going to have to be very militant about finding and plucking any thing I see out of the ordinary. This is my first time, I would hate to fail this grow with no smoke to show for. Everything was going so nicely until yesterday when I found these little bastards.

I was going to separate this plant from the others and just throw it in the cellar bathroom with a couple cfl's until I found 1 or 2 nanners on each of the other plants. I was too concerned searching over the leaves for thrips lately that I neglected to keep an eye on sex. I guess you live and learn, and after this grow I will try some quality purchased seeds.

 

[opt1c]

sounds like you got it all planned out; good luck... since these are your only plants it probably won't be too hard to keep an eye on em; stay vigilant and you'll be rewarded for sure

 

[use]

went through the other plants when the lights came on, cleaned them all of any possible nanners(that I could find) and just going to go forward from there. Thanks for your positive comments. I wanted to take more pics, even found some full of pollen, half dried and open, so I'm guessing a lot of trouble to come. Dang bagseed.

 

[basspirate]

Now, call me a lyin' turkey, but if you pollinated a bud or two with these nanneroos, wouldn't the seeds in effect be feminized? or would they have an even stronger tendency to go herm?

 

[Dr.NO]

Clean your grow area well before your next grow so as to not have leftover pollen to impregnate the next crop.

 

[High Country]

Now, call me a lyin' turkey, but if you pollinated a bud or two with these nanneroos, wouldn't the seeds in effect be feminized? or would they have an even stronger tendency to go herm?

They may well turn out to be feminized but the hermie trait would be passed on. To make feminized seed we need a stable plant with no hermie tendencies at all. By forcing them to reverse with a chemical, colloidal silver, STS or GA3 we are inhibiting ethylene forcing the plant to reverse sex. These male characteristics are not passed on genetically.

 

[joe fresh]

ok, there are 2 different kinds of hermies....genetic hermies.....and stress induced nanners.


Genetic Hermies-- basicly a genetic hermie is just that, it will herm no mater what, at a certain point in its life it will herm and this trait will be passed on to all seeds it produces. there is nothing you could do to stop a genetic hermie from doing so, even if you have a perfect environment. any seeds from the pollen of these plants would have the genetic hermie trait

Stress induced hermies---this is much different, this is the process where a female plant with no hermie traits will be in flowering phase, also known as reproduction. as it flowers and gets stressed(this could be from ph, light/dark, basicly excessive stress to the plant) it will make what is called nanners(pollen sacks) to reproduce its self to survive another generation, this is the plants natural way of preserving the species. this can also happen on some strains late in flowering for the same reason, it feels stressed and is close to finnish and has not been pollenated so it sprouts nanners to pollenate its self so it can survive another round. all seeds made with the pollen from this kind of hermie will be feminized and good quality, with no "genetic hermie" traits


the problem in your situation is the nanner sprouts from the "preflower", which would indicate the plant is a genetic hermie....this is one of the easier tells as to weather it is a genetic hermie or a stressed induced hermie.


with all that said if you plan to take clones or make seed it would be a bad idea as youll run into this problem every time, but if you plan to just run her once and thats it then yes plucking the nanners should stop seeds from forming, but you must be very vigilante, GL

 

[use]

Thanks for your help and information.

 

[use]

here's the shim about to hit 7 weeks.

 

[Cheerful]

Looks really good!

 

[HempAlchemist]

keep an eye on those plants, sometimes they only put out a few males, sometimes its full blown. kill plants if they go full blown, or you will cleaning your area for days trying to get all the pollen. expect a few-many of seeds this go around, and clean your area with 10% bleach, vacuum/dust, etc good luck

 

[use]

I was wondering about that, since I first found the pollen sacs(some open/ some closed) and picked them all off, I haven't seen any new nanner growth, but a lot of pregnant flowers.

Is it typical that more nanners will grow in the coming weeks, or is it a 1 time thing? So far it only looks like pregnant flowers producing seeds. I'm not seeing any banana shapes. But I will keep checking. There's a real good chance this happened due to a light leak in the first few weeks of flowering. This has since been fixed, but I don't know the cycle of nanners during flowering.

this is the tallest and latest to start blooming. Will probably go 12-15wks? Any input would be helpful. There's some pregnant flowers on this one too.

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Sorry no real helpful input but I do want to commend you on sticking with it, you will at least get something out of your first rodeo. You plants look healthy and I think that if you get yourself some decent genetics you will do great. Check out seedboutique, Nirvana offers some great genetics at great prices.