will male pre flowers release pollen in veg?

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sampson0420

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I have a couple plants that are 4.5 weeks old and are showing signs of sex. My question is, do I need to worry that the males will release pollen in the next week or so while still in veg?

For w/e reason I'm having trouble identifying the males from the preflower. The females are as easy as pie.
 
prep1801

prep1801

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I'm wondering the same thing. I have never seen an adult male... or even anything further than a male preflower. Yet somehow I have a bunch of seeds forming on a plant. I'm really confused by this. The only thing I can think of is this: I did have some male plants that I pulled a few months ago... they only had preflowers. I set the containers they were in, along with the dirt inside, aside. I grew my females happily. 3 weeks ago I harvested two plants. I've dried and cured them... been smoking them for a little bit now and no seeds. A few days ago I pulled out some of the top layer of dirt, in the pots previously holding the males, to start some new seeds. As I scooped some dirt out, I noticed some of it float in the air. It was sucked up by the fan and blown onto one plant in particular. Well, today I go to check on my remaining (3) plants and I notice the plant under the fan has more than a few seeds... the other remaining two maybe have one or two seeds. I've read that it takes a 3-4 weeks for seeds to fully form... all of these seeds are white and small. So somehow in the last week I polintaed my girls... and the only way I can think of is the dirt laying underneath the preflowering males from 3 months ago.
 
Longtimetoker

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prep1801 said:
I'm wondering the same thing. I have never seen an adult male... or even anything further than a male preflower. Yet somehow I have a bunch of seeds forming on a plant. I'm really confused by this. The only thing I can think of is this: I did have some male plants that I pulled a few months ago... they only had preflowers. I set the containers they were in, along with the dirt inside, aside. I grew my females happily. 3 weeks ago I harvested two plants. I've dried and cured them... been smoking them for a little bit now and no seeds. A few days ago I pulled out some of the top layer of dirt, in the pots previously holding the males, to start some new seeds. As I scooped some dirt out, I noticed some of it float in the air. It was sucked up by the fan and blown onto one plant in particular. Well, today I go to check on my remaining (3) plants and I notice the plant under the fan has more than a few seeds... the other remaining two maybe have one or two seeds. I've read that it takes a 3-4 weeks for seeds to fully form... all of these seeds are white and small. So somehow in the last week I polintaed my girls... and the only way I can think of is the dirt laying underneath the preflowering males from 3 months ago.
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It looks like you identified your own problem. Some plant pollens can be viable for hundreds of years if under ideal conditions. Before starting another grow, I would completely clean your grow area because pollen can rest anywhere and become air-born again at any time. Of course, one of your plants could have gone hermi.
 
prep1801

prep1801

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i just learned... I have a hermie. These little things have started showing up in the last couple weeks... here's a pic someone else took. look at the "yikes." I have like 2 or 3 of them on each plant. Hopefully the smoke will be good. The male parts have only recently shown up... and harvest is just a week away. Shit.
 
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bdonson

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so the original question still begs an answer, will a male plant showing preflowers on a 18-6 regiment or 20-4 release pollen.
 
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chronic17

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Wat up!, My answer to that is yes!!!. I vegged 6 plants on 18/6 and had two of them pop sacks!!. Woke up one morning, and went to check on them only to find yellow powdery shit all over my empty flood and drain table where I vegged them. Needless to say, threw out all the others and started from scratch. Hope this helps!
 
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vic420

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i was going to say.. hermi for sure.. i did the same thing.. i thought i accidently pollinated my girls when i found a nanner on a purps bud a friend grew.. and went into grow after smoking.. and found seeds later thinking they were purps x ? watever. and nope had a hermi killed the seeded plant and hermi an started over
 
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asaph

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chronic17 said:
Wat up!, My answer to that is yes!!!. I vegged 6 plants on 18/6 and had two of them pop sacks!!. Woke up one morning, and went to check on them only to find yellow powdery shit all over my empty flood and drain table where I vegged them. Needless to say, threw out all the others and started from scratch. Hope this helps!
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lol you didn't have to do that
spraying with water neutralizes the pollen
and even if one poll does make it through and get you one seed, never killed no one... people can get hysterical when it comes to their plants i can understand that, but no need to exaggurate...
 
Ski Mask Way

Ski Mask Way

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I figured I revive an old thread to show that I at least attempted to find my answer before asking the question.
Here are the facts
  • a series of unfortunate events led me to veg 5 plants in rockwool for 5+ months in a basement.
  • the basement was not controlled for temps, the humidity was worst than normal basements, they would go without water/nutrients for 36-48 hours some weeks,...they went through hell
  • noticed yellow dust/pollen even though the plants are still in veg
  • I ASSUME its because of "hermie due to stress" and I am still looking for the male plant, have not found it yet.
My two questions:
  1. Can I clone from a hermie and get a female plant still?
  2. Since its still veg stage can i just clean up the area and the plants will still be ready for flower?
 

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vostok

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sampson0420 said:
I have a couple plants that are 4.5 weeks old and are showing signs of sex. My question is, do I need to worry that the males will release pollen in the next week or so while still in veg?

For w/e reason I'm having trouble identifying the males from the preflower. The females are as easy as pie.
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From the time you spot a 'preflower' to the time it takes to open and spray it sperms about is about 7-14 days,

so you have some time to get stuff organized, but some strains can be very unpredictable,

as soon as I spot a male with my babes I shuffle him of to a separate room, and keep the guy quarantined ..

but then again they are very tough if its just one male and you need the pollen,

you can move the top most of the plant to a bubble cloner, a glass of water even or often I chop him down to 6 inches tall but leave that little cola for future use

good luck
 
alwayslearning777

alwayslearning777

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I figure ill add my two cents... I am using collider silver to turn a female plant "male" though not genetically male just female pollen (different from hermi or male so don't know if same rules apply ) .. anyway the sacs have been on flower for two weeks.
I am moving it back into veg room to shed its pollen (in its own tomato cage wrapped in plastic wrap), once a male plant starts to flower they will continue to throw sacs even in veg, I am not sure if these sacs will open however... but this way even if pollen does get on my vegging females I can easily wash them so once they flower the pollen will be long gone ... and if not the pollen will produce all female offspring (this is how fem seeds are made ) ... I will update my post once everything has happened to let everyone know...
A. if the plant keeps throwing sacs and if they open or stay shut
B. if pollen does get on my females, if a thorough spray wash prevented any issues in flower (seeds from females not meant to pollinate)

I know a lot is defendant on strain incase anyone is wondering I am using a 50/50 hybrid (big city lights- OG pheno ... mmmmm ) as well as a girl scout cookie clone I got from the dispensary, seems decent tho I did not get to do the choosing on this one ... these are the strains I used to colidal silver (not sure if that's how its spelled or not
 
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