Hermie... cut or wait?

greenorn

Member
I have 2 white widow plants in same space in 7th week of flowering.
Couple of days ago I have discovered seedpods/buds on 2 lower branches on one plant, I have removed them in panic. They must have been there for some time as they were starting hardening. They were still green tho.
I did extensive seed s&d on both plants and there are no more seeds to be found anywhere. (there were bout 20 in total on same plant on 2 branches below the bud sites, 2nd plant is seedfree) I believe I might have had lamp to close to one plant witch created stress and hermie.

My question:
Should I cute them down? I've read some of internetz lately and some people say that when plant starts creating seeds it stops producing thc and that thc is slowly loosing its potency.

No amber trichomes on them yet :/ here's a picture.



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thanks in advance
 

whufc

Active Member
Let them go for another week or 2, keep a close eye on the seedpods, if to many start to develop i would personally chop it down.
 

McFonz

Well-Known Member
Look for any male flowers and cut them as they show.
Its a real waste to hack them down now.

At the worst case scenario you'll get seeded weed. By my view its better than no weed.

Seeded weed IS weaker, but not by far.
Immature weed is BY FAR weaker than seeded weed.
 

greenorn

Member
Thanks guys. Ill let them be for now. :P
I have not discovered any male flowers anywhere on them, only seeds. Is it possible that she self-pollinated without pollinating 2nd plant?
I was also planning on re-vegetating them, is it possible to revert them back to veg and flower again without risking getting hermie?
 

^Slanty

Active Member
Do NOT try to reveg the one that hermied on you. You can try with the other though.

I think you are mistaken of what pollen sacks are and seeds. Male pollen sacks release the pollen which in turn makes the buds produce seeds inside the actual buds themselves.
 

greenorn

Member
I think you are mistaken of what pollen sacks are and seeds. Male pollen sacks release the pollen which in turn makes the buds produce seeds inside the actual buds themselves.
There were seeds but no bananas. I literally took the seeds out of the pods. Unfortunately i did not take any pictures.
How come only one of the plants produced them? Not the other.
There was nothing on any of them that looked like pollen sacks. I did some research on males on my previous grow and I'm almost certain that i could identify one if spotted. There are lots of pics on internet as well.
 

MrGhettoGrower

Well-Known Member
I've had Hermes once from not using a timer the whole grow
I started seeing seeds about the 4th week of flowering and a
lot'em I let it go the seeds are good no Hermie so far sorry dude
did you use a timer or did you have a light leak I would wanna to
find out what did it more than worrying about this grow cause there
isn't much you can do about this grow it's too late if you harvest
now it won't be as potent useless it's just going to be used to make rope
with it but if you only have a few seeds on the lower branches let it go
and save the seeds but then again you could have more seeds than you can
see and you won't know till you harvest for sure! :lol:
 
Let it grow and the seeds produced will be all female. The plants from seed will be prone to hermie but if there is little stress then you should be ok. This is how my 1 plant became a garden
 
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