Way cool. You know you have to grow some of those out. The universe is talking to you… grow them.
I have only seen it on strawberry seeds coming out of the ripe berry.
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Well you guys and gals, this is my first time growing outdoors, so for this to happen is kind of craaaaazy to me. The tails that I cut out, I went ahead and put them in starter pots and we will see what happens. I’m here in midwestern Virginia, and being in 8th week of flower, I believe this is a bad situation for harvest? I would like to know this late in the season, and with all the rain if I should just bring her on in? Or, just let her keep rolling? And Thank all of you for the advice!
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Greetings Growdoc, can you explain the “Tail” scenario? I thought if it had seeds it is a Hermie? I appreciate your input Growdoc.
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@OGIncognito check this 
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That’s wild, germ success and still on the plant. 1st for me 
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@AL_GREEN had almost but closest to this I’ve seen, didn’t see his before-pics but he tossed a bud that had seed and it gave him a volunteer plant, did I get the story straight AlGreen check this out
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Any chance there’s a male around…neighbors growing?? The seeds from a Hermie plant can carry that gene. You could drop 10 seeds and any one of them or none of them turn out to be a Herm
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When seed germinate, the tap root grows out first, we call that a tail. It just means they have started sprouting. If you are asking me why it happened, I’ve never seen it before….it could be a hermit or more likely like OG said, male in neighborhood dumping pollen on the breeze.
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That’s an old Indian landrace variety,Many Tails OG.,just kidding .As stated I’ve never seen that as well.
Personally I would let her finish,your so close.But I would also pick some out and see if they are viable seed. Hey you never know.
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So did it hermie? Then like you said start sprouting its seeds from the constant moisture?
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That’s what I think. It’s called vivipary
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That’s pretty cool to see! I wonder what they’d do if they got popped in cups. That’d be awesome if it was the best weed ever!
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Since they are sprouting, my guess is they are viable LOL
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Pretty cool info!
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Shes full of it 
Great Info that is 
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Here it is in tomatoes:
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Crazy stuff we see, we had green and red peppers this yr when cut them open no seeds what so ever but 2 to 4 small peppers growing inside up where the stem connects to the pepper
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I’ve seen that happen with peppers before. That tomato tho @Caligurl is crazy! It just looks nasty lol
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My bell peppers grow little peppers inside quite often… here’s why:
During the normal development of bell peppers, seeds develop from fertilized structures (ovules). There are a multitude of ovules within the pepper which turn into tiny seeds. Sometimes, a pepper ovule gets a wild hair and develops an internal proliferation, or carpelloid (carpel is a female reproductive organ of a plant… aka ovary) formation, which more resembles the parent pepper rather than a seed.
During the flower stage, they wait for sperm inside a structure called the carpelâ - the outer part of which actually becomes the pepper fruit. You get a pepper when pollen ends up on the top of that carpel. The sperm in that pollen travel down to the ovules and fertilize them, and that triggers the ovules to become seeds and the outer part of the carpel to become fruit.
But there are lots of ovules in a pepper and not all of them get fertilized. Sometimes, an unfertilized ovule goes rogue and starts to become a new pepper instead. Or, part of one anyway.
That ‘inner pepper’ is actually a wanna-be carpel (carpelloid structure). Basically, genetic mutations can cause an unfertilized ovule to start growing like it’s that outer part of the carpel. It just starts making a fruit!
Since this happens without the ovule being fertilized, these internal peppers are considered a type of parthenocarpy (the development of fruit without fertilization).
Here’s something else that’s fun. I have Eureka lemon trees that sometimes produce fruits like this:
What causes this? It’s a little bud mite which sucks the sap from the lemon flower, causing the poor flower to have a deformed ovary.
I couldn’t find the pics of my lemons from last year that had this (I had quite a few too!) so I grabbed this from the internet. I gave them to the neighbor’s kids and they had a lot of fun decorating them to look like animals or people LOL
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