Seeds found during harvest

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it’s been a bad growing week…first I sprayed two plants with end all and fried them. Then I harvested the plant in my flower tent and found quite a few seeds. Wondering if someone can tell me why?

All my plants are from feminized seeds and I only had one plant in the tent. I’m wondering if it was genetic or environmental. A friend opened the tent for a moment while the lights were off 2-3 weeks before harvest, would this have done it? I didn’t see any signs of hermi at any stage of flowering, I check my plants regularly and know what to look for, there were no sacs or bananas. I harvested it fairly early so the buds weren’t over ripe.

I still got a good amount of bud off it, with tons of trichomes and it smells amazing. How will it effect the quality of the bud? The buds did dry way to fast so now I’m trying to get some moisture back in.

Lastly, is there a chance that these seeds are feminized? If they are female seeds will they produce hermies?

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All fem seeds have herm for a father imo whether it’s on purpose or accident it’s stress that turns them. You could have brought pollen in from outside on your clothes or missed a banana they’ll grow inside of a bud between the calyx or under sugar leaves pollen is super fine

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Ive found seeds in the weed i get from dispensaries. Only a few here and there, but it happens !

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Yep same here and 99% are fem , there’s an occasional male sneak that gets in a grow but most of the time it’s from a banana

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You ought to check your tent for light leaks.

Some genetics are simply prone to hermaphroditism. You didn’t mention the cultivar, but many will produce male flowers if you don’t defoliate the lower half of the plant.

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This was a MK Ultra feminized seed I bought online. Grown in soil. I have grown MK Ultra in this tent for about a year although in the past I used clones. This is the first time I used seeds for this strain.

I’ve bought other seeds from the same source and they were good with the exception of 3 autoflowers I tried outside last summer. All 3 hermied late in flower and I had to harvest them a little early, it was still really good quality as I removed any sacs as soon as the appeared. No seeds in those ones. This is how I know what to look for.

I spend quite a bit of time training and use the mainlining technique, I also keep them well trimmed. Could I have trimmed it too much late in flowering causing stress?

I did take a clone off this one that is now in the tent, just switched over to flower. Let’s see if it hermies too.

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Again, some cultivars are naturally hermaphroditic and will produce both male and female flowers no matter what you do. But yes, any stressor can encourage hermaphroditism, since it’s basically a survival advantage.

Check for light leaks.

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I live in Canada and have the lights off during the night so the room is dark as well.
I will check for leaks though, thank you.

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I didn’t find any bananas, hoping these are fem seeds. I’ll grow them outside away from anything else and hope for the best.

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Take the plants out of the tent during lights on.

Sit in the tent all closed up with the grow light off but the room light and all equipment on.

Wait 20 minutes in the dark. You can listen to music but absolutely no screen time.

If you have light leaks, you’ll see them.

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Update…there were no light leaks and not genetic. I just harvested the clone from the plant that turned to seed and it turned out amazing. Big buds and no seeds. So it was stress related, either from interrupted light schedule or over trimming in flower. I was careful to avoid stressing the clone and am very happy.
I’m hoping the seeds are fem and viable, I ended up getting 250-300 seeds.

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