This was my first indoor grow and while I messed up a few things, I hopefully won’t make those same mistakes again. The reason I’m posting this is on a small branch of a Granddaddy Purple photo that I dried out to try while the rest cures and so far I’ve found 5 seeds. So I’m sure I had a hermie (I looked at my plants every day and never spotted any pollen sacks. Would these seeds have a good possibility of being another hermie or what would I end up with if I planted them?
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pictures would help.
Females will pop Nanners, sometimes.
Seeds are yours, the gift of giving, that keeps on giving.
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I’ve got everything sealed up in Grove bags (heat sealed) except for a 6 inch little cola to test out. After trimming it and bagging it, I found 3 seeds amongst the leaves and other trim,then 2 more tonight. I have 2 other varieties in the closet and have tried some of them as well but no seeds so far.
What I’m really asking about is I’ve never had a hermie before I was wondering what these seeds might grow up as…a female,a male or another hermie. I’d rather not have a male or another hermie in my little grow room. Just asking what others have experienced that planted seeds like these.
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As far as I know, it would depend on why the plant hermied. If it was from some hard stress, or old age, then they should be feminized seeds and grow a good plant. If it hermied from genetics though, then it’s hard saying I guess. At the very least, you can get lots of germination practice for free now 
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I wouldn’t worry about it if it is only 5 seeds. It’s normal for a female, non-hermie plant to produce a few seeds.
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The only stress that I’m aware of is I over fertilized the 2 Granddaddy Purples and they had some nute burn. The original seeds were from ILGM. I can say one thing, these seeds are bigger than the originals and with my track record this past year, I need lots of germination practice.
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I’ve never had any of mine in the past hermie or produce seeds on their own before and wondered if anyone else had grown seeds from a similar situation. I’ve got plenty of seeds already and I learned how to clone this past year so I’m set on future planting. I just didn’t want to plant these seeds if I knew these would hermie. Even buying seeds when ILGM has buy 10 get 10 free the seeds aren’t cheap and the thought of “free” seeds makes my wallet feel better. But I also know how my luck runs and don’t want to end up with the next grow full of seeds because I planted a seed I shouldn’t have. I’m aware that any seed can hermie under stress but in your opinion, would these seeds have a greater risk of being a hermie or about the same as the original ILGM seeds?
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In my opinion and experience fem seeds. I grew out a bag seed from my last Jesus og bag seed… I grew a few bag seeds out last harvest. Where I got about 9 more back. Just grew that seed. Actually 3 of them all female
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Don’t we all?
You would be amazed at how many seeds some growers germinate, looking for phenotype desired.
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Yup, could be any of the three!
I don’t typically grow out seeds from a hermied plant. In my experience they show a fairly high propensity to herm again if conditions are right…err wrong lol. That said, my best strain of all time (i call it deep six) was from a bagseed…and likely hermied mom…so who knows!
I suspect she shot some nanners you couldn’t see and now you’ve got a few beans. Give em a shot and if they prove to be stable…you’ve got some free genetics!
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Appreciate you posting this DeepdiverDave, it lets me know I have reason to question what these seeds might do. Since I started using feminized seeds,I have only had one male plant and no hermies until now… this is my first indoor grow so finding a few seeds kinda surprised me. And to tell you the truth, I’m not too empressed with how the Granddaddy Purples turned out (maybe because it seeded and got nute burned) compared to the Girl Scout Cookies Extreme and the Super Lemon Haze (my favorite of the 3).
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Seeds are seeds, any or bag seeds in the bank is good.
I have a picture of a female 3 inch bud with one male flower, embedded, identified.
I sacrificed last summer for seed banking.
I got seeds.
Female w/ nanners found
Her brother has stipes on his nanners, too
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Those are true pollen sacs…
A nanner occurs in the bud and literally looks like a yellow banana sticking out of your flowers.
There can be a single nanner, scattered nanners, or clusters of them. If you look at the inside of a pollen sac you’ll see the nanner structure wrapped in a leaf sac. Under a microsocope you can see the round pollen grains too.
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I’ve never seen nor heard of this before… teaching an ol’ dawg new tricks and I appreciate it. I’ve just never encountered this before…I’m assuming it’s just another thing to deal with when planting these hybrids.
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