Hermie? Is This Auto Pollenating?

H Everyone,
I noticed these watering today. Is this Auto turning hermaphrodite and pollenating? I don’t see these in the other 3 plants in the tent. Do I need to pull it and harvest immediately?

Plant is approximately 9 weeks and was planning to let it go a few more weeks. It’s ff soil in a 5x5 under an hlg-600 light.


Already did turn herm and busted all over. If you have multiple plants they have all been pollinated.

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All it is going to do now is start producing seeds. Along with your other plants. You can keep running them but you’re going to have a whole ton of seeds. And be sure to clean EVERYTHING with peroxide at the end of it all.

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Thanks, that’s what I thought. Just wanted confirmation. So I guess I just need to harvest what I can immediately? What if I just let them go, will it stop bud development and all bear seeds?

They’re going to put a lot of attention into making seeds with little effort on actual bud development. What you said is probably your best bet. Sorry for the herm crashing your party!

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Sorry, that’s a both male and female. Blowing that pollen everywhere you’ll have some seeds, but I wouldn’t use them, you’ll end up with more plants like this one.

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Thank you for the quick replies. I guess I will do a really big flush and chop them down in the next week to start over. So frustrating.

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It’s usually a lighting issue, but autos have funky genes because of the ruderalis. I had one start making seeds about 3 weeks into flower, but stopped after a couple of weeks and they never developed. Ended up with like 5 half seeds at chop. Another that had 2 seeds out of 3oz. I’m still pretty fresh but I strongly believe the auto flower gene from the ruderalis causes it. Mine showed no signs of male flowers and there’s no males in the area. There’s a few topics here that are about other growers autos starting to make seeds without herming or any males.

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I can relate to your situation. I just chopped 2 plants that were male. I caught them quick enough they hadn’t pollinated any of my other plants. Sorry for your inconvenience but Happy growing. :v:

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Def a herm, as community said. It happens, check to see if you have any stress factors in your tent. Even the on off indicator on plug strips. Best of luck

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Did you have any stressful events during grow. Possibly went to long without watering, or extreme temperatures, even just for a few hours. Stress can cause a hermie, I had a plant that I allowed to get to dry, it hermied not long afterwards.

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Hermi for sure ur goin to have seeds in all ur plants

I think I just learned something right now thank you. I thought females are females and males are males. Now the hermaphrodite may happen with stress I wonder how many times I stressed my plants in a weekly basis lol
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