After pollination...

So two of my clones turned hermie well after the flowers started coming off of them. Unfortunately the papaya plant seems to be the only one now growing seeds in its flowers. Albeit this has come on and made itself apparent only in the past 6 days. I saw the start of a male flower on two clones, removed them, 2 days later I see selective buds showing 1 or 2 seeds growing.

Do I harvest that plant immediately to stop more seed production or do I let it take its course? At the end of this week Friday the plant in question will have been flowering 6 total weeks. The strain of the affected plant is Papaya. The strange thing is no sign of hermie or male flowers showed up on those two clones until they were nearly finished with the third week of flowering.. it came out of nowhere. Even the mothers of those clones show no signs of hermie/male flowers.. odd eh?

The haze19xskunk#1 plants do not seem to be affected oddly enough.. at least every flower check I did showed no signs of seed development. The papaya plant is VERY obvious as to its new growth being seeds.

Need some input.. thanks guys. I know i've got some decent feminized seeds now so i'll be holding onto them.. I just don't want the buds to become packed with seeds in the remaining 3 weeks I "was" going to continue flowering that plant.

Just ride it out. Harvest when the buds are ready.

Yep I would agree, Just ride it out. Save all those seeds because there feminized seeds. All femized seeds have a chance to hermie on ya which I think has happened here and yes clones from a feminized plant can be hermie as well.

Continue to get rid of every flower you see carefully and let it ride..

Thanks for the responses. I guess it wouldn't hurt to ride it out..

My biggest worry is the whole tent is pollinated at this point. On a lighter note no other clone or plant is showing any sign of seed production except that one. I must've grabbed a clone then touched certain buds on the one plant.. not every flower on the plant growing seeds is actually growing seeds.

An accidental selective feminized breeding.. yeah.. that's what I meant to do.

Your obvuously paying close attention to them looking them over and studying them well. If its just a couple few seeds and your vidualant on removing the male flowers your fine. Get lazy and its a differant story.

Syriuslydelyrius said:

Your obvuously paying close attention to them looking them over and studying them well. If its just a couple few seeds and your vidualant on removing the male flowers your fine. Get lazy and its a differant story.

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Yes, you could say I diligently pay attention to each and every plant Thanks for the feedback.