Plant hermed on me - what now?

[rob feature]

To make a long story short, I've just pulled a plant for bananas. I thought I'd gotten to them before they got to the trouble stage, but as I was trimming the plant I cut, I noticed one that looks like it may have already done its deed.

So I guess I have a couple of questions. First, if pollen does make it to one of the flowers of another plant, does it fertilize the whole plant or just the region which receives the pollen?

Next, how long does it take for a plant to develop seed? The one plant that's still in the garden has another week or so to finish & is growing nicely, but don't want it to seed in the case that it's been fertilized.

WWICMD?

Thanks in advance!

 

[rob feature]

Maybe trichomes show something when fertilized?

Or something else the microscope might reveal?

 

[its trypp]

Sucks that it happened rob :/ Hmmmm. I will have to re read something that mikenite told me, but I seem to recall being able to use a technique where you pollonate only certain regions. Ill get back to you on it

 

[TheRealHash]

It will fertilize the whole plant if the pollen was viable.

How much seed you get depends on how much pollen was released

 

[its trypp]

Mikenite69- "Here is what I did about 15 days into growing I started spraying it with 50ppm solution of collodial silver. You can buy the collodial silver right off amazon from a company called silver mountain minerals. All you have to do is spray her 1 time a day for 10 days to 14. Then stop spraying her and wait eventually she will pop balls all over the place.

When you start spraying her you don't have to spray the leaves just mainly spray the internodes and spray the whole plant. You don't have to worry about drenching it either just a nice spray of the internodes all the way down the plant. The best way to do it is to have a second female to pollinate so when she flips just let the other plant get mollested by the by the girl that you flipped then you will have a ton of fem auto seeds. Or you can just take one of the banana or balls and pollinate your other girl if you don't want to seed out the whole plant and you just wanna pollinate a bud for a little bit of seed."

So, in theory, and hopefully in practice, if only minute amounts of pollen made its mark before rob caught it, then only certain regions of his other plants would be seeded whiles others have a possible chance of sinsemilla buds. Yes more likely minor seeds but the chance still remains. But at least you have a nice supply of beans for growing more and more. 4 plants a run you might be able to get a years or so worth of good runs. Maybe. Well, hope it turns out the better for you either way rob :/

 

[Gardening Angel]

To make a long story short, I've just pulled a plant for bananas. I thought I'd gotten to them before they got to the trouble stage, but as I was trimming the plant I cut, I noticed one that looks like it may have already done its deed.

So I guess I have a couple of questions. First, if pollen does make it to one of the flowers of another plant, does it fertilize the whole plant or just the region which receives the pollen?

Next, how long does it take for a plant to develop seed? The one plant that's still in the garden has another week or so to finish & is growing nicely, but don't want it to seed in the case that it's been fertilized.

WWICMD?

Thanks in advance!

Hey rob,

If your running a sea of green your probably going to be finding seeds in some of your other plants

You need to give your grow area a good clean to get rid of any pollen that could be in there.

Check the other plants if they look like they mite hermie if that's the case something is wrong in your room or you have unstable genetics,
Also if you have taken clones of the plant you mite need get rid of them aswel !

Although I have had clones before from seed that Hermed and the clones were fine

Thanks
GA

 

[tokersmoke]

if you are harvesting one in a week it will not be enough time to grow seeds.Def check the room for light leaks timer failure etc.And def clean the room thoroughly.If you did get seeds take it as an opportunity and a lesson.I just had one hermie causing seeds.I had a timer failure twice and some prob with storms and power outages.I am currently growing out the seeds and they are a great mix of genetics so not all bad.

 

[rob feature]

Thanks folks! I'm letting the blueberry stay. She's the last girl standing and at 65 days flowering, she looks like she has a few more left in her.

Thorough hermie checks happening every 2 days now. I'm spending close to an hour going over it with a nice, strong extremely white cycling LED...makes finding 'em much easier.

 

[stoned-trout]

bananas aint as bad as balls tho... I have had plants throw a few bananas and only got a few seeds from neighboring plants....

 

[RonSmooth]

Pairs of anthers or "naners" are common in late flowering. They usually don't open and release pollen in time. If they do it will most likely pollinate a small area on the bud.

Full male flowers are what I call "herm". They grow at the base of nodes, under the flower cluster. IME, they come earlier in flower than naners. Each flower contains several anthers which usually open. Since there are no sticky stigma surrounding it, the pollen has a much better chance of spreading to other plants in the room.

I have had a male flower in my hand when it literally went "poof" and a golf ball sized cloud of pollen appeared and I watched it float around in still air waiting for the slightest gust.

I have pulled male flowers as they appeared if the plant looked superb aside from that and they have finished without growing more.

I make oil with flowering herms.