Should I harvest early due to seeds?

I messed up with my light cycle and looks like a plant or 2 hermied, i killed the little bananas but i'm noticing small seeds/swollen calyxes in some of my buds. The plants look great other than that and some look ready to harvest (1 in particular which was the shortest and fastest to show sex) but it's only been about a month of 12/12, actually here's my little timeline.

I did a 53 day veg roughly - kind of long but was going out of town and didn't want to switch while i wouldn't be around.

I'm on about week 4 of flowering and most plants are very sticky, covered in trichonomes.

Jan 5th/10ish - seeds germinated
Feb 29th - switched to 13 on 11 off
March 11th - switched to 12 on 12 off

Should i harvest early? Should I snip all of the seeds? What is the best way to handle this? Bag appeal is important.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

<- those pics are from a branch that i cut off, the main cola doesn't seem to have seeds on it so i'm trying to make it focus it's energy on that one.
< - just a few bud shots, my camera isn't the best.

It's hard to tell but half of the plants do look ready to harvest, i have 3 plants in 1 tent and 4 in the other. I'll add more pics later. I'm waiting for a 100x light microscope to arrive but i'm worried now, i don't want a bunch of friggin seeds but don't want to have less bud than i should get, nor want shitty quality. I already smoked some of the lower branches which i cut off to focus bud growth and it's pretty good, not crazy but does the trick.

i don't think it will get you any more thc to harvest early. it does look like they need another week or two at least. if you can prevent the spread of more seeds that would be ideal. imo just let them ripen; you'll get a half decent amount of smokable bud, and you can keep the nice seeds you find. seeds are valuable to have

Yeah I think I'm just gonna wait it out, I just cut off a big jar of buds that had the beginnings of seeds on them, oh my got it smells so good! I'm pretty sure I got most of the seeds and reaaaaaaaaaaaaally hope there's no more damn pollen in the room. Also hope cutting off the seeds and buds doesn't stress my girls out too much.

those are not seeds . those are female seed pods. She is good to go.

they look good enough to keep flowering. Let them finish. They have about 3 weeks to go.

dadio161 said:

those are not seeds . those are female seed pods. She is good to go.

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I sure do hope so. This is my 2nd grow ever, my first one was years ago with a bad setup and I had a real hermie pollinate all of my plants so thought the same thing was happening again but maybe not!
In any case, the bud i cut off won't be wasted, it smells sooooooooooooooo damn good. I really hope you're right and i didn't cause too much stress by cutting them off.

Live and learn i guess, I'll keep ya posted on the outcome.
Thanks for the info.

McFonz said:

they look good enough to keep flowering. Let them finish. They have about 3 weeks to go.

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Thanks, i'm feeling a little dumb but very relieved.

if its seeds you can cut a pod in the middle and find a seed.

Turns out that some are seed pods some are swollen calyxes. Luckily the only actual branch that i took off wasn't huge but contained most of the seeds.

It's not uncommon for mj to develope seed pouches whether it's been pollinated or not.

Those plants have a ways to go, 2 more weeks easily.

I disagree, those are seeds. I wouldn't harvest early, let them finish. I hate when I get bud that's been harvested prematurely and has little baby seeds in it. If you are removing a hermie so that it doesn't pollinate the rest of your crop, that is one thing, but otherwise it's just a waste.