Auto hermies

damian0536

Active Member
Hey all so have been checking my autos they are week 11 tomorrow one plant hasn't changed much the past week loads of white pistils and bud starting to form but been real slow...

So as I was checking I found these ball things all over it I'm hoping it's normal and not a hermie but take a look and tell me what you think?

I have pulled one off to open it up and also in the picture you will see what I found inside..
 

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You're fine. No worries. Most hermies will push a pod out on a short stem so it can flower out to disperse the pollen and many times a cluster of more than one. The genetics of the male gene is to reach out and up to throw it's pollen into the wind and not set on the stem. What I was seeing in your pictures are mores clusters of females birthing.

I know we are playing God when we cross breed two to three strains and the landraces and linage that they were designed to be, but that makes it great when all the conditions work. Almost all hermies are going to happen outside in stress conditions. I only grow outside. I started four plants outside in mid April (why four? because state laws of five or more make it a felony). They all started slow because they received too much rain the first two weeks on the vegetative start and minimal sun. The next two weeks a freak snow storm, hail, more rain, then it cleared up. The last two weeks of the six week veg cycle was perfect. All started to flower, white hairs, all the good signs, then the weather gets hot, like upper 80's to100. That's how you stress a plant with crossed genetics. Three of my girls stayed true look great and will some be a trophy. One, it got goofy, it branched out and started a second veg stage, the smell was powerful, the white dusting of resin thick like honey or tar, then the little pods of yellow male flowers came on in ten days. She went bisexual and looks freaky. Still gonna chop and crop her because I can't leave her to play with the others, and that resin saturation, it's got to be some good smoke.
 

smokiemcbowl

Well-Known Member
Pretty sure thats not a hermie. Looks to me like a pre-sex calyx. No need to pinch em off, your plant is doing exactly what its supposed to.

The first 2 pics are what you are looking at. Male sacks are easy to tell once you see the difference. The last pic is balls... Thats what you dont want to seeuser156934_pic709383_1309900870.jpg weeds-calyxes.jpg calyx.png
 
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