This is the first time I’m using feminized seeds. The grow is going great and everything has been on point but I’m wondering if its normal for these plants to grow seeds. If there’s no males to pollinate then how did this happen?
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A female can hermie and produce male pollen. Where are you seeing seeds? Have you opened female calyxes with seeds in them?
Welcome to the forum.
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They are most likely normal swollen female calyxes. They can contain seeds, but they do not produce seeds unless pollinated. Did you find seeds in the calyxes? If so, then you have a hermie on your hands.
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Those are male parts, carefully remove them all
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A few of my plants are doing this. They are different strains also. I’m old school and only used to grow and pull the males and never had pollination issues but not sure about these feminized seeds. Also how are auto flowers? Do they have the same issues? Thanks for welcoming me too!
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They are most definitely not males
Yes, they are equally susceptible.
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Yes I have found seeds
I believe it may be a herm then. I assume they should get pulled like a male would. How bad is a herm? I’ve never experienced this problem and not sure if I should just pull and toss them. Any tips on how to avoid this?
One or more of your plants is a hermie then. I would inspect the plants and remove the hermie. They typically look like this when in flowering:
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The “nanners” in the pic in my previous post contain male pollen. It’s something nature does to perpetuate the species in some situations. The cause can be genetic or stress (overdoing high stress training, disturbance of the dark cycle, and so on…)
It’s not all that common, but it does happen. We probably see 1 hermie a month or every couple of months.
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Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you have a herm. I haven’t experienced that yet. Good luck with your decision but I believe you need to remove them from your grow if it’s been caught early enough
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??? Glad we came to this conclusion…
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I just had a OGK-CBD plant throw out a whole bunch of bananas and I have not seen a single seed from it. Sometimes they are sterile. You cant bank on it, but they dont always produce pollen.
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@Whoisit welcome to the family my friend you can take tweezers and carefully remove them and let it finish out you will still get good smoke from them. If it being me i would finish them out
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This is female/feminized pollen. Like the pollen from a male but only carrying female traits. Plenty capable of creating seeds but none will be regular male plants.
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when companies sell fem seeds they claim 99percent come out female.what is the characteristic of that other 1 percent.could it be a male with regular pollen able to pollinate fem seeded plants or even regular female plants .and what if so would those seeds being produced be regular or fem seeds.
The 1% will be male.
Regular pollen will produce ~50/50 male/female. Feminized seed can be grown by using colloidal silver or silver thiosulfate to generate male pollen from an otherwise female plant which is then used to pollinate another female plant.
Welcome to the forum.
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