Hermied Seeds Question

[tbake4420]

First off, hello to everyone. This is my first post but I have used this site for the last year when ever I have a question. I am new to growing and any help/input is greatly appreciated.

So my last grow hermied (pollen sacks at the base of the buds) and all the buds had seeds, some heavy some not so much. Not 100% sure what caused it but if I had to guess I would say a light leak. I noticed, apparently to late that my C02 burner has a red and a green light in the sensor that flashes when the plants were in the dark period. If you just go into the room its not very noticeable, but once your eyes adjust to the darkness it is actually very bright. I have that corrected now by using a timer.

Question 1: The plants were grown from what I was told were feminized seeds. Since they hermied will the seeds be feminized or regular seeds with a 50/50 chance of being m/f?

Question 2: I have other seeds (Gorilla Glue #4) that were given to me. They came from a seeded female but I don't know if it was because of a hermie situation or if it was pollinated by a male plant. Three plants from those seeds were just flipped and I believe one is showing to be a male. If it is a male, does that mean its "mom" was pollinated by a male plant and not hermied?

Like I said I am new to this, so any info is greatly appreciated. Hopefully my questions make sense to someone other than me.

[kingfish]

First of all welcome to our world. About question 1. If the plant was not pollinated by a male plant then the seeds will be female. Question 2. If you suspect a male plant, get rid of it now before it pollinates the other girls. Then you will have seeds. You are right about the male plant being pollinated by a male plant and not a hermie. Keep in mind. A female plant that hermies, will always have female seeds.

[DW2]

Howdy tbake4420 and welcome to the forum. All of the plants (female) that I have grown and produced seeds, did so with nanners (see photo), I never found a true pollen sack (as on male plants). That being said, all of the seeds (so far) have produced female plants. Some of the 'nanner'ed' seeds did not sprout or go to maturity, but all were female.

[tbake4420]

Thanks for the replies. I found 2 more males in veg last night so I feel pretty confident the seeds given to me were the result of being pollinated by a male plant and not from going hermi.

DW2: My last run had only pollen sacks and I did not see any nanners. I think I read somewhere that nanners are from genetics and pollen sacks are the result of stress. Don't know if that is true or not.

[DW2]

I do not know for certain, but the only time I did get pollen sacks were when the plants were male (and no pistils showing). As I fixed light leaks (into the growing room and into the reservoirs) and got the temperatures under control the occurrence of the nanners seemed to reduce. I think that some of the 'stress' that the plants go through is genetic, the drive or need to produce seeds and keep the line going. other plants do 'put on' fruit (seeds) when stressed. Plants, in general, have more complicated genetics than we do (and just look at the ways we strive to reproduce!! lol) All that I can say is that not very many seeds come from the 'self pollination' (as compared to M/F pollination) and since there is no X-Y chromosome exchange, the seeds produced turn out to be like the original plant.

[oldjarhead100]

stress will do that to them I have had quite a few plants hermi over the years and I save the seeds and grow them I always watch for males even though they should all be female , other than that grow away