possible hermie? need help identifying

**torxxx** · 29-04-11, 06:09 PM

heya guys, first time grower, long time follower.

Anyhow, this is my first grow, just something small using a few random seeds off something a friend grew. Plant 1, 100% female, very well filled in plant, looking forward to this one finishing, prolly gonna be a 8-10 week flower, not sure on the strain the clones got mixed around back in the day when this stuff was first done.

Plant 2 (the one in question) I wanna say this strain was grape ape, either way, @ 4 days into 12/12 she started shooting long pistils out so I got excited. @ day 9 I started seeing what appear to be balls, or maybe just flowers packs starting. Since this is my first time actually sexing and not just taking over during flower I want to be sure before it goes in the trash.

Not all the stalks have these balls on them, and granted its prolly my fault if It is a hermie because I played around with pinching tops to get this thing to branch outward instead of growing straight up during veg. Heres 2 pics I took when the light came on this am, I can't really get any better pictures until later in the day, when I can get them into a well lit room for the pictures.

There is maybe 10 to 12 of these sacs that I've found, on 4 out of 8 stalks. Toss it or wait? and if it is a hermie, since its only on certain stalks, can I cut those stalks off and just let it keep flowering?

Sorry bout the pics, I'll try and get better ones later on in the day. And thanks in advance

**torxxx** · 29-04-11, 06:12 PM

and btw, these sacs arent banana shaped, they are more watermelon shaped. Egg shaped...

**Anabolic** · 29-04-11, 06:18 PM

Looks hermi to me

I would pull the balls off ASAP if they keep coming back id get rid of the plant altogether

You dont want it pollinating the rest of your crop

**seanMcPot** · 29-04-11, 06:19 PM

it does look like pollen sack's

dont do any thing with it yet,but keep you eye on it

**torxxx** · 29-04-11, 06:23 PM

so pull the sacs and wait a day or two? I pulled one off last night, took it outside and rubbed the ball between my finger and all it was, was leaf matter. No pollen, but I realize its still too young to have developed a bunch of pollen.

strewth · 29-04-11, 06:32 PM

You won't be the cause of making it hermie by pinching out the tops mate

As said keep an eye on it before you cull him/her

**torxxx** · 29-04-11, 06:35 PM

I wasn't sure if that would do it or not. I just know I keep hearing that if you stress a plant too much that they can hermie.. So I assumed that pinching the tops would be considered stressing it because its damaging the plant.

Hopefully everything works out with this one cuz its a sexy lil plant, got some nice long shoots on it, possibility of some killer colas off it

**torxxx** · 02-05-11, 01:06 AM

ok, I got rid of the sacs, there was a total of 14 of them. I did that the day I started the thread (48 hrs ago) and no new sacs have started. I'm wondering if the plant was confused, it had 90% female parts and 10% sacs. Every stalk has a nice main bud now, and the smaller ones down the stalks. I think I'm safe, I didnt notice any pollen around the room (very allergic to pollen, throat didnt swell lol)

Thanks for the tip on holding off. I was going to dumpster it when I posted the first time