Seed "parthenogenesis" - Why? How to prevent it?

[therevverend]

Thanks Hammerhead, that's exactly what I thought of when I read through the description. Appears to be immature seed that never develops and is always sterile. I didn't know for sure it was an ovule but I was pretty sure that was what it was. It's given me a hermie scare or two in the past.

What Shaggy mentions is apomaxis not apogamy. Because I don't really understand what apogamy is I'll quote from the dictionary. '

1. (botany) Asexual reproduction of a fully formed plant directly from a bud. The term is generally used specifically for ferns and relatives budding from the prothallus

I'm not trying with apogamy, I'm not a botanist or a fern grower. Apomaxis is basically when a plant makes a seed that's a clone of the mother. This isn't suppose to happen in cannabis, but like I said I'm not a botanist and can't make a good argument as to why it can't happen. It does happen with some trees and grasses. I know some animals, Komodo dragons for instance, can do the same. Lay eggs that are genetic copies of the mother, but most animals can't. I imagine the gene to make it happen is extremely rare and not possible in a lot of life.

 

[kro-magnon]

This is a very interesting subject, I'd like to have more knowledge on botany to be able to fully understand all the mechanisms involved. On my current grow I have noticed some kind of seeds in pods but the pistils are still white, like this picture shown by Hammerhead, it is the first time I have something like this and I thought I had missed a male flower hidden somewhere hard to find as it can happen easily. But maybe this plant is making the same thing than Hammerhead and The Reverend are talking about, I'll know more when I harvest and try to germ some of those strange seeds.

 

[Hammerhead]

It's easy to tell when pistils get pollinated. They will turn color shrivel up and die. If they stay white and don't die off there was no pollination