Has anyone ever had this before??

[rule35sub1]

I had a Reeferman's Blue Thunder that I pulled one seed from the buds after harvest. I only have female plants all from clones. I assume the plant selfed this seed so it should be a female seed. I have grown this seed out and I am blown away by what I am seeing. This plant has been under an 18/6 light schedule and it is only on its 4th leaf set, yet I am seeing male flowers starting to show all over this thing. Has anyone ever heard of this before??

 

[JDOG6000]

Sounds like a male plant.

 

[GZA]

do you have a sealed bloom room or do you vent with outside air?

 

[rule35sub1]

I know it's a male plant. Thought selfed seeds were always female and why would balls be showing on such a young one that is on an 18/6 schedule?

 

[Guest]

Its a rarity, but I gues it can happen. I would let it pollinate one of the girls then try for the amazing dark purple pheno if you don't allready have it, theres a pic of it floating around the net.

 

[rule35sub1]

i have the velvet pheno.

 

[SweetIndica]

They are probably male preflowers...nothing abnormal. Some strains show preflowers only a few weeks into flowering. Alot of my plants usually show their sex within a little under 30 days. If you have other crop in your garden though, i'd pull that sucker out soon.

 

[Guest]

Still breed it up and see what happens. If its showing this early could really short some flowering times if it has some potency to back it up


Or just a lot of wasted time. your call man

 

[beancounter]

herm seeds or selfed seeds can still creat true males, altho said not to be as good for breeding... It's just the exception to the rule..

Also, u may find once in flower that it reverses sex to fem..

I wouldn't use it to breed with personaly.

 

[TGT]

I had the same thing happen with a California Orange clone I was gifted by a friend. I grew out about six tree sized and harvested. I ended up finding three seeds in the whole batch and never had any male pollen in the room at all. One of the seeds sprouted and turned out male which I thought was unusual to say the least. He kept male his whole life and I used him to pollinate the female CO clone to make seeds. The seeds that were produced were 50% hermaphrodite, while the others exactly the same as the CO (almost like a clone) and pure female through and through. So I realized that if it happens again to me I know not to breed with it. It did still produce half good plants just like clones from the original, so I guess in some situations it could be good, but for breeding purposes I would say not too do it. Hope that info helps and I am glad I finally found one person that had the same thing happen to them. Good luck and let us know what you plan on doing with that male.

TGT

 

[Guest]

I would be very suspicious that this seed did not come from a random pollen grain...

From your neighbor... or whatever...

The fact its a male would lead me away from it being a selfed seed...

 

[Guest]

Yea, Im sure his neighbor came into his grow room, pollinate one calyx, and didnt steal any plants. Be realistic man.

 

[SweetIndica]

Dank1- Although i do agree that his neighboor probably didn't pollinate it, pollen can travel several miles. It would definately be possible for a nearby grower to pollinate your crop, not very likely...but possible.

 

[BaffledMonkey]

^^^ talk about taking it literally, lol

unless I had plenty of room and time to play with, id rip the little sucker up and confine him to the compost heap. Accidental pollenation seems far more plausiable than a selfed freak bean.
Just my tupence.
Laters
Baffled

 

[SweetIndica]

^^^ talk about taking it literally, lol

unless I had plenty of room and time to play with, id rip the little sucker up and confine him to the compost heap. Accidental pollenation seems far more plausiable than a selfed freak bean.
Just my tupence.
Laters
Baffled

It's happened plenty of times before, i remember on OG when several people would be discussing it. It's nearly impossible when growing indoors, but outdoors it's very possible.

 

[Guest]

Haha, I was to sober to get the comment yesterday.

@Rule, show off that purple pheno.

 

[Haps]

I have one of the self seeds from the velvet or purple pheno in bloom right now, and just finished two others off. I did also get one male from the first three I did this year, and did not use it, but it did not seem hermi, and I did have some hermis this year. One was a nice green BT pheno that I enjoy, but real small and delicate, and a small purple pheno that has the flavor of the velvet, but is not quite there, and was tiny too. I like growing these "survivor mode" seeds but I am not quick to breed with them. That being typed, if this new girl is real velvet, and my silver experiment works I might try that just for personal growth, and cool new flavors. What do you think of these girls?
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Edit - I forgot, I have seem that quickie male pheno in regular blueberry, autoflowers without warning, in veg, it can be dangerous, but it is fast. I used one in my windy city blues, because when I caught it and went to kill it, it was just too smelly not to use, at least for personal stash beans.