Did my plants herm?

[Budley Doright]

Prior to pollenation....

the pistils are attached to a seed ovary......when pollen hits the pistil it can then form a seed.....

In general there are two types of hermies.... we commonly call them balls or nanners....

The balls type is much more dangerous.... they get air dried and are likely to create many seeds....

The nanner type is less dangerous..... I suspect that because they are in close contact with female parts they dont really dry out and release pollen as often.....

Im just providing some info..... not suggesting what you do....

 

[Budley Doright]

Yeah maybe the risk is lower than with regular I don't know but I do know not all fem beans will herm. Dont get me wrong I've had herms before but not that many none last year at all. I do 3 grows a year that's 3 packets of feminised seeds.
Ya I might get a hermie out of a pack but I find mostly that it's just nannas at end of flower. I just pick them off they have never seeded my buds. At the end of the day if I pop 5 feminised seeds I get 5 female plants I could pop 5 regular beans and only get 2 females.
I know which odds I like best.

Ive been growing awhile.... I think that you agree with my feelings about regular vs feminized....

With regular.... or feminized you are going to get some plants that you dont like..

WIth regular thats going to be males....with feminized more likely to get hermies....

However for the most part.. if your feminized plants dont show male flowers..... they are quite likely to never show them....

Seed plants should be examined very carefully if you plan to clone them.....

 

[Avinash.miles]

sounds like you have seeds forming not just bannaners, maybe it would be a good idea to cut early, up to you

 

[Budley Doright]

sounds like you have seeds forming not just bannaners, maybe it would be a good idea to cut early, up to you

I agree..... in the pics..... they look like undeveloped seeds....not unpollenated seed ovaries.....

 

[ganjygav]

Ive been growing awhile.... I think that you agree with my feelings about regular vs feminized....

With regular.... or feminized you are going to get some plants that you dont like..

WIth regular thats going to be males....with feminized more likely to get hermies....

However for the most part.. if your feminized plants dont show male flowers..... they are quite likely to never show them....

Seed plants should be examined very carefully if you plan to clone them.....

This is the same for all plants and living species on the planet, some offspring will be weak or handicapped in some way. Shit you get human hermies.
I just get annoyed when i see peoppe talk rubbish about fem seeds just because the man before said it. lots of rubbish information on forums and a lot of good but you gotta be able to spot what is what. couple of months back i pulled a guy up for saying that fem beans are gmo in one thread.

 

[Budley Doright]

Keep in mind the methods used are quite different today than 10 or 15 years ago...

Here is something from that time frame about soma... who did NY city diesel


I named this new method "Rodelization," after a friend who helped me realize and make use of this way of creating female seeds. After growing crop after crop of the same plants 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 seeds, but they sometimes do. They are a built-in safety factor so that in case of severe conditions, the plant can make sure the species is furthered.

Im not sure many use this method these days....

 

[.357 mag]

throwing a couple nanners late in flower happens alot its strain dependant ,so its not technically a herm
somtimes the nanners are sterile somtimes not

ya got a decision to make,but like said if its head smoke let them finish we all grew up with seeded weed no big deal take it as a learning lesson

 

[Scrappy-doo]

Hermaphrodism is a genetic trait. Reversing a female via chemicals does not and can not alter the genetics of a plant and therefore can not increase the likelihood of hermaphrodites in the offspring. Reversal chems merely block female hormones so male parts grow instead. The dna is not altered at all. Anyone telling you otherwise is using stoner logic and hearsay. Whether your seeds are regular or femmed is completely irrelevant. It's all in the genetic code of the parents.

There's plenty of threads on this topic where this theory has been debunked. If you don't want hermies research any line before you buy. Some strains are known to herm regardless whether they're fem or reg.

 

[Budley Doright]

I agree thats why I pointed out soma and his methods....

However in my experience this only relates to seed plants...

I think its quite rare for a seed plant which did not have any male bits in their first flowering to show them after they have been cloned for a second and subsequent flowering....