Pollen, hermies, and outdoor

[blondie]

My outdoor grow is seeded up the wazoo. I was not vigilant for nanners so not sure this is the source of trouble. The strange thing is all four of my plants are seeded, and heavily. I’ve had plant hermie on me and I’m good with a few buds with seeds. This is not the case. So.... I wonder if anyone knows how far pollen can travel? Wondering one of my neighbors had a male planted nearby.

Also wondering if one plant going hermie could pollinate other strains?

Edit: I had 4 female plants in close proximity of one another. Two strains in the following order, several feet apart.

Copper orgi Cinderella xx copper orgi Cinderella xx

 

[OldSSSCGuy]

I heard that pollen can travel for miles. And yes, one hermie plant can (and will) pollinate an entire garden.

 

[Organilush]

I've found some seeds in my buds the past two years I've grown outdoors and I've always wondered where the pollen came from. Because I never spotted signs of hermi or nanners pushing out of the buds (tho I kno nanners can be tough to spot sometimes). The flowers weren't seeded heavily, but just about each branch on each plant had some seeds.

I've wondered...did the plants or one of them go hermi or push out nanners? Or did someone in the neighborhood have a male that was full on blowing his load into the wind? Or are there hemp farms that I'm unaware of in my area? (I don't know if Cali, or my county, has outdoor hemp farms yet?)....Or what?....

This year I'm growing two plants from seeds I found in my Thin Mint buds last year...The leaves and the plant structure are somewhat like TM but overall the buds and aroma don't resemble anything like TM.



Blondie....Are there hemp farms in your area? I've heard about some folks growing outdoors in states that have large hemp farms ending up with plants that are heavily seeded.


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[OldSSSCGuy]

The hermies you can easily see, so if you found one you'd know who the unstable mommy/daddy was. In the midwest US in states like Indiana you can have male hemp pollen blow for miles and miles and contaminate flower crops. If you're growing in a legal-outdoors state then lord knows where the daddy came from... Once your grow gets contaminated that way the only rational thing to do is smoke what you can and destroy the seed. Don't waste your time trying to squeeze a non-mongrel plant out of a mystery pollination - but that's just my opinion.



I'd fall back on bag seed (ugh... nausea) before I'd waste time and energy on a mongrel plant's seed. Just me...

 

[blondie]

Organilush... you and I are on the same page. The answer is no. I have no legal hemp farms anywhere around.

It’s funny thin mint is mentioned. My Cali connect Girl Scout coookies was the strain that went hermi on me, indoors. 3-4 buds per plant had some seeds. It was great in my opinion, as I grew those out. Known female seeds from a decent strain.. not a lot of seeding. The seeds never went hermie on me, just the mommies.

But wtf is going on here.. I’m surrounded by vegetation, so seems like a male would need to be real close.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

I have no legal hemp farms anywhere around.

What about wild hemp or unmonitored guerrilla activity? Pollen has gotta come from somewhere.

 

[blondie]

I’ve never heard of any wild hemp anywhere near me, nor seen any. I’m guessing my new neighbor who moved in late last summer has a few plants somewhere. But that pollen would need to travel through woods and heavy brush.

I trimmed one plant last night and literally every bud I pulled had visible seeds. Popcorn buds were 90% seeds. I can’t recall ever seeing buds so seeded. Even back years ago when some bag seed was the norm, I never saw this amount. Oh well. What can you do.

 

[blondie]

I’m guessing this thing is a nanner...??

 

[troutman]

^^^ No that was seed forming.

 

[Organilush]

Once your grow gets contaminated that way the only rational thing to do is smoke what you can and destroy the seed. Don't waste your time trying to squeeze a non-mongrel plant out of a mystery pollination - but that's just my opinion.



I'd fall back on bag seed (ugh... nausea) before I'd waste time and energy on a mongrel plant's seed. Just me...

What's so different between "bag seed" found in a sack of bud or seeds found in one's own bud? In both cases the father is unknown. And unless one knows for sure the genetics of the bud the Bag Seed came out of, then the mother might not be known either. At least with one's own grow they'll know who the mother is.

I mean I understand if one only has "X" amount of plants they can grow then they should choose seeds & clones with proven quality genetics. But every year I plan on growing at least one to three plants with these seeds that I pulled out of my buds with the father/pollen source being unknown. The whole "mystery" part excites me and I look forward to seeing all the different traits & characteristics & aromas.


I'm growing two plants right now that came from seeds I pulled out of my Thin Mint buds from last year and they've both grown into some lovely plants (one in the ground, another in a small 2 gal pot). Nice structure, strong branches, vigorous growth....The flowers on one of those plants have a unique aroma/essence that I haven't smelled much of before in cannabis (sandalwood/coconut, onion/herbs, with an over all sweet essence, really hard to put my finger on it and explain it tho), the other plant has a bit of a strawberry smell to it with some mild gassy/chem notes. And both plants have very resinous flowers with lots of trichomes packed together.

I'm actually super excited about having these "mystery seeds", especially now that I've seen some of them will grow into great plants. Since it will be a surprise each time I'm really looking forward to seeing what each seed grows into and what sort of different traits/characteristics they have, and most of all the different aromas....All of the seeds came from mothers with quality genetics (I've got seeds from Thin Mint, Underdog Urkle, Tangieland, Slymer, Lemon Wookie, and Cherry Cookies), just the father/pollen source is a total mystery.

Every year I'll be popping a few of these mystery seeds along with some clones and seeds of known genetics from actual breeders.





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[Noonin NorCal]

I’m guessing this thing is a nanner...??

Looks like a calyx, i call them pods. Should be in each one of the crothces

 

[blondie]

This pod thing looked different than anything else on the plant so I wondered. I trimmed and de stemmed both plants and without really trying have a huge pile of seeds. I ground up a few buds and see parts of seeds. Been vaping them through my flowerpot. IN addition to the seed parts, I’ve been pulling out 2-3 whole seeds out of the spent material.