Gentlemen. I've always been lucky. Never ever had a hermie before. But I've got a new strain and I don't know much about it. I'm just about done flowering...waiting for a little more change in color. But today I notice a brighter yellow color of what I thought were new hairs. But with my magnifier they looked more like nanners. So I pinched them off and got these photos. I can chop now since I have plenty of cloudies. But I was hoping for a little more purple and that's coming soon; I can see it. Can you tell how much more time I might have before they would have popped open and befouled my beautiful virgin girls? Assuming I have more of these that I can't see, are we looking at possible pollen TOMORROW, Next Week? Already too late?
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My guess is the pollen has already been released but you shouldn’t worry about it. There’s probably other male flowers that emerged even earlier that you didn’t notice. But like
@KryptoBud said, the seeds are gonna take a while and shouldn’t fuck with your bud that bad. I purposely pollinated colas that were halfway done with pollen with a brush to get seeds, and it still turned into nice fat bud. I’m hoping there are seeds in there but there’s gonna be plenty to smoke anyhow. That was like a month ago. If your shit is almost ripe, don’t sweat it.
Also, I’ve heard that sometimes females send out male-like flowers at the very end as an act of desperation to reproduce. So it could be your plant isn’t even a true hermie but just really ripe.
I think the main problem is when females get pollinated right away, when their flowers emerge. I pollinated a female in a tent that way and it virtually produced ZERO bud. Just calyxes swollen with seeds.
