One Hermie Plant Week 7 Flowering. What to do Now?

[crunchyfrog]

The most mature of four White Widow photos feminized (ILGM seed source) plants is showing pollen sacs. They are in week 7 of flowering. The trichomes on the most mature (and hermie) plant are still mostly clear with the exception of some of the top sugar leaves where many of them are cloudy and amber. So after reading some about this, there are sort of two paths that I have read. One is let it be and let the plants try to finish and maybe harvest a little early, the other is to remove the hermie plant and hope that it has not already pollinated the other three plants. There was another path suggested and that was to remove all of the pollen sacs with tweezers and hope you can do that and hope you do not burst any while doing it. I don't like my chances of getting them all and not bursting any of them while removing them.

Does anyone have any experiences you can share and what you did?

If I did remove the hermie plant and harvested it today (and hope that the others do not hermie and have not been pollinated already), would there be any THC in the soon to be dried and cured buds even if the trichomes are clear?

Thanks as always for your feedback.

[CaptainWiese91]

From the first 2 pics. It really looks like you just have female calyx??
doesnt look like pollen sacs to me.

but if you have pollen sacs, I had one plant in my last grow. And I checked it everyday for 1-3 hours and cut off all the sacs before they were mature. And I didn’t have a single seed in my 5 plants

[CaptainWiese91]

I’m really sure they are not.
Because yours they sit directly on the stem.
Pollen sacs are hanging from the stem, on a little stem itself.

[crunchyfrog]

Hi again, and thanks again. Yes, they are sitting directly on the stem, in the crotch of a new branch My apologies and thank you for your patience. I guess I have a overwhelming fear something is going to go wrong. I will post another picture that shows a very few brownish hairs coming out of the apex of the "pollen sac" or better identified by you and others as a female calyx or preflower.

[CaptainWiese91]

If you have brown hairs from them, it’s definitely a female calyx👍🏻😎.

Don’t apologies! Years back I did the same when I saw them in my first grow 😅. Pretty common paranoia about sacs😆.
Better safe than sorry right

[Korn]

I do not see any male pollen sacs either.

[Korn]

Here us what male pollen sacks look like. I believe What you are Calling Male pollen Sacs are really female preflowers that usually show up just before the major budding begins.

[CaptainWiese91]

Agree with Korn on this one

[Smerft85]

Hermies have what looks like a tiny bunch of bananas, I see female flower on your plant.

[crunchyfrog]

Thank you Smerft85 , CaptainWiese91 , and Korn . I will be so happy when this first grow is finished... I worry about every little thing, sorry for the false alarm. Photo below of one of my "pollen sacs" with little brownish hairs coming out of the end.

[CaptainWiese91]

If it’s your first grow, you are doing good ! Better than I did in my first grows. But I didn’t have a site to rely on, so I made all possible mistakes 🤦🏼

keep up the good work. Keep calm and be flexible 👍🏻

[Smerft85]

Congratulations, it's a girl! 😁

[SoOrbudgal]

Smoke 1 and chill