I have a new strain I am trying and we are in day 22 of flower. I have 8 or 9 of 30 showing signs of Herming. The problem is some of the what look like pollen sacs are throwing pistils and turning into buds. Should I kill em or leave em outdoors the rest of the season and see if they turn off decent? They are a cross of Grease Monkey male and a Blueberry Muffin. More pics to come
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@TDubWilly hey brother can you Rustle up some guys who may have seen this before? I don’t wanna have these things going all tranny in the open air lol
Yup, you have male flowers, She hermed.
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If it’s got balls, and you don’t want a ton of seeds, I’d cull them as they will affect them all
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The good news is any pollen you can transfer to your female only plants should make female seeds!
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Heya bud, need a few more days to be sure. I’d not make that call just yet based on that pic.
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And they pass on that trait. Not something you want.
I have a solid White Widow plant that I have put through all kind of abuse and haven’t had one hermie. The plan is to eventually get some feminized seeds from her. I’ll force the hermie using colloidal silver. I tried it earlier this year with no joy, but will try again over the winter.
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I just want to let you know @TDubWilly has passed on. Coolest dude you never met, but had a heart of gold. So he won’t be responding to your post. If it’s any consolation I miss his posts too. Seems like just yesterday.
Yes this is a herm though. 
Tag and bag.
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Damn man he helped me with my first deep water culture grow! He was a good dude!
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Yup a Hermie for sure. One flower looks completely open.
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I have no issues when I do it with Super Skunk they always female.
Thank you all.
So sorry to hear about TDubWilly
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Wait you’re getting regular hermaphrodites to produce feminized seeds? I thought they had to hermaphrodite in a specific way??
Ive never seen that happen before you can try to carefully pull off the pods with out busting them
Yes and no. A plant fertilized by a hermie will only produce feminized seeds. There is no male gene to pass on. However, there is the hermie trait that could be passed on. Treating good genetics with colloidal silver will lessen the chances of offspring turning because of environmental stress.
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Okay this makes sense now. Ive also heard of keeping your plant under 12/12 past the point when buds have ripened to get it to hermaphrodite without colloidal silver for the organic breeder. I thought these methods were the only way to get feminized seeds. but I understand now that its just the correct way to do it so you dont get a gene passed on that causes plants to hermaphodite easily.
It’s passed on from what I see in ALL strains anyway. Especially Autos look at how they make them.
I assumed I would have 50 50 herms and females but I got all female so far as I ain’t sprouted a herm off them yet.
Almost every outdoor plant I’ve ever grown spits out one or two seeds if you really comb through them with no males around. Those seeds In my experience are always female also.
Seems to work with gorilla glue, super skunk and blue dream the only problem is getting enough pollen off them herms to do jack with as the flowers never seem to open up fully on hermed plants as it’s mashed up in between seeds.
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