Hermaphrodite plant. What to do?

Welp, shit. I've been so vigilant on all of these plants in almost all ways, but I overlooked one thing that really pisses me off. I noticed I had a fair amount of hairs turning early, and a bump down on my bud production on a couple plants starting about a week ago. I took a closer look, and seeds...seeds everywhere They're just getting started, but all 3 plants appear to have been pollinated. I knew it couldn't be from my males as I chucked them long before they could pollinate. After an underside inspection, I found a number of opened pollen sacs hanging within the buds on one plant.

So. Fuck. Lesson learned, keep an eye out for hermies. Guess I'll be cleaning the hell out of my grow area after this, and maybe getting some new/better WW seeds... But, is there anything I can do at this point? Or am I royally fucked? Only about 35 days left tIl harvest. How much will this screw up my yield? And potency? I've read pollination will screw up both, but I'd love some input!

-Peach

That sucks

From the research i have found online, i would keep the hermies if they are all fucked. I dont know how accurate this information is (about 30 minutes of reading through resources) there are good chances that alot of those seeds may be female. Now on potency, i can only imagine that yes you lose a lot of potency. But i mean hey, if you pollinated them all, no sense in cutting them down. Grow it out. save the seeds. I DID HOWEVER, find a product online that supposedly kills all male growth and lets more of the flowers grow. I dont know how true or accurate this is. I am just giving you something to go off of.

This is an interesting post. https://www.rollitup.org/t/are-hermie-seeds-worth-saving.29256/

Mateuszpl said:

From the research i have found online, i would keep the hermies if they are all fucked. I dont know how accurate this information is (about 30 minutes of reading through resources) there are good chances that alot of those seeds may be female. Now on potency, i can only imagine that yes you lose a lot of potency. But i mean hey, if you pollinated them all, no sense in cutting them down. Grow it out. save the seeds. I DID HOWEVER, find a product online that supposedly kills all male growth and lets more of the flowers grow. I dont know how true or accurate this is. I am just giving you something to go off of.

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I've come across similar resources that seem to concur with seeds being from hermies turn out to be females. Your potency is going to be a little less since some production was used to make seeds not buds. If it was me, I'd let em ride. Keep the seeds, enjoy what's left then roll on.

Thanks for the info! Yeah, I mean, I'll grow them out, and worst case scenario, it's gonna be a lot of hash, and a lot of future seeds. I can imagine it would, it seems like the trichome production is lagging a lot lately. I don't think it's worth getting any product to kill male growth at this point, since it's all opened up and seeds are well on their way now. Oh well, I guess we have to learn the hard way sometimes!

-Peach

Mateuszpl said:

From the research i have found online, i would keep the hermies if they are all fucked. I dont know how accurate this information is (about 30 minutes of reading through resources) there are good chances that alot of those seeds may be female. Now on potency, i can only imagine that yes you lose a lot of potency. But i mean hey, if you pollinated them all, no sense in cutting them down. Grow it out. save the seeds. I DID HOWEVER, find a product online that supposedly kills all male growth and lets more of the flowers grow. I dont know how true or accurate this is. I am just giving you something to go off of.

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Best of luck! hope you have better luck with your next grow. On my first grow i planted 4 of my 10 plants from seed and all were Females. Its all about luck lol. However i hope the info is true and you have a whole seedbank of females lol

PeachyBuds said:

Thanks for the info! Yeah, I mean, I'll grow them out, and worst case scenario, it's gonna be a lot of hash, and a lot of future seeds. I can imagine it would, it seems like the trichome production is lagging a lot lately. I don't think it's worth getting any product to kill male growth at this point, since it's all opened up and seeds are well on their way now. Oh well, I guess we have to learn the hard way sometimes!

-Peach

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I wouldn't call that a "worst case scenario". If you get a lot of future seeds, that's room for experimentation with soils, hydro, lst, germination processes, etc. Hash is never a bad thing either. I had a hermie once, gave me enough seeds for a few grows and the buds were amazing too. Almost tempts me to get a hermie just for the free seeds.