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DrGreenThumb



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Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? UPDATE 6/21/09
#239506 - 06/14/09 06:42 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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So yesterday morning I check on my 3 girls and give them the daily inspection. On one of them I notice a few "little balls" so I figure...hermie. Not wanting to jump to conclusions and kill her, I plucked off 2 of the little sacks. When I got to the third one it looked different. It was a "little ball" with a pistil coming out the middle of it. (pic #2+3) So today take a pic of it and I notice another tiny sac beside it, no pistil. There's only one other sac on it and that's in pic #4. So what's the deal???!!! This is my first indoor grow so I've never been able to scrutinize my plants like this before. Is it a hermie, is it a bud, why dossen't it look like the others? WTF!!!??? It's Sensi Star in soil, 2 weeks into flowering.
  
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Yrat
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#239508 - 06/14/09 07:55 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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strange. i see what you mean, it looks just like a couple male flowers but has a pistil coming out of it. weird.
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ethnoguy
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Yrat]
#239516 - 06/14/09 08:58 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I would say it is safe to call it a hermie. Weird though.
EG
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#239553 - 06/14/09 12:03 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Watch it and do what you have to.
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Dr. Penguin


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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: KaptKid]
#240112 - 06/16/09 11:14 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Great pics! I haven't seen that before... I would agree ethno and call it a hermie. Just pluck the balls off and keep watching to make sure you don't find anymore.
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Integra21
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Dr. Penguin]
#240116 - 06/16/09 11:52 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Looks hermie, just as another option, if you have space away from any other plants and follow safe pollen handling, you can let if flower and fertalize itself, and collect your new femenized seeds. There is a chance some will be hermies too, but anything that's not a hermie, will be female.
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Integra21]
#240117 - 06/16/09 12:06 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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neuter him.
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spacemonkey69
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: grimR]
#240118 - 06/16/09 12:13 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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grimR said: neuter him.
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“You see this glass bong?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I smoke out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass bong on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”[/quote]
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Integra21]
#240221 - 06/16/09 06:47 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Integra21 said: Looks hermie, just as another option, if you have space away from any other plants and follow safe pollen handling, you can let if flower and fertalize itself, and collect your new femenized seeds. There is a chance some will be hermies too, but anything that's not a hermie, will be female.
How do you think I got 24/24 females last year!?!?! 
   
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DrGreenThumb



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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Inverted]
#240465 - 06/17/09 05:27 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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So here's the update. The ball with the pistil has sort of blossomed as you can see. It still has only one pistil and that one "ball" right above it. No other "balls" or anything that looks male has formed on any part of the plant. I scrutinized it for hours (4 hours) and haven't found anything. So I guess she stays right there (She's so beautiful). I'm going to keep the ball above it on the plant also. Few seeds couldn't hurt anyway, right? Especially if they do turn out fem. I'll keep ya'll updated. On the other hand check out my new post on my other girl that had like a 5 inch growth spurt in 19 hours. Thanks for the input everyone. I can't believe no one has come across this before. I guess this is history in the makin' or sumpin'.
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#240469 - 06/17/09 06:07 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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so strange...
i would be willing to bet that any seeds that come from that plant self-pollinating would definitely be female. it seems like some strange developmental mutation rather than a full blown hermi.
very cool.
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DrGreenThumb



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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Yrat]
#241586 - 06/21/09 06:20 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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OK, so this morning I got up to take some more pics of the ball. I decided to pick off the little sac right above the one with the pistil and when I did I grabbed them both. Well, luckily I was sittin' in front of the fan because the ball with the pistil dropped onto the bud below it and a spray of pollen landed on the bud. I immediately shut my fan off. So thanks to the advice of Integra, Inverted, and Yrat I decided to try pollinating a few buds. I could REALLY use female seeds fo sho. So anyway, I picked up the little pollen sac and took the plant away from the others to blow off the extra pollen on the bud it landed on. Then I took the pollen sac (the one with the pistil) and gave it a squeeze to get a minute amount on my finger. Disposed of the pollen sac and took my finger and gave it gentle wipe one lower bud of my other two females. So if this works out hopefully I'll get a few femmed seeds and I owe ya'll big time. Thanks for the advice. I guess we'll know fo sure in a few months.
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Integra21
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#241644 - 06/21/09 11:46 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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getting the femenized seeds is by the hermie polinating itself, not your other plants, that will only give you regular seeds. Just so you know.
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spacemonkey69
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Integra21]
#241771 - 06/21/09 07:36 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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“You see this glass bong?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I smoke out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass bong on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”[/quote]
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: spacemonkey69]
#241951 - 06/22/09 08:32 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes this is a hermie. Or so says hi-times. There is a pic of this on page 44 of the August 2009 issue. It's the beginning of the male pollen sack within the female flower.
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Ero42oH2o]
#242061 - 06/22/09 02:38 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fantastic pics bro, best ive ever seen. Way to get answers
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ethnoguy
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Integra21]
#242851 - 06/25/09 11:13 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Integra21 said: getting the femenized seeds is by the hermie polinating itself, not your other plants, that will only give you regular seeds. Just so you know.
LoL. Thats false. Old wives tale.
EG
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: ethnoguy]
#242852 - 06/25/09 11:18 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have never tested it myself, but in general i believe Jorge Cervantes, and that is a fact published out of his book. So it might be more than an old wives tale. If I ever have a hermie, I'll put it to the test.
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ethnoguy
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: Integra21]
#242897 - 06/25/09 01:58 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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What? The bible? He clearly states in the breeding portion how femenized seeds are made. In the issue of HT that is in my avatar, he explains the products that are actually used.
The punnet square proves the hermie myth false.
EG
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Re: Bud Formation?..Hermie? WTF is going on with my little girl??? [Re: ethnoguy]
#242898 - 06/25/09 01:59 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't know how many times this BS has to be debated in here.
EG
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