HELP! Are these pollen sacs?

[FortyNation]

Hello, I am growing a few plants in my sunroom currently, and my plants have been in 12/12 for about two weeks. I am wondering if this plant is showing signs of being both male and female? (I started giving them 12/12 before confirming the sex due to the size of the plants getting too large). It is cereal milk, and I currently have another one of similar age and bud development. However, the other one is not showing the little pollen sacs or whatever they are, and the flowers look pretty normal so far. Thank you for the advice, and I apologize for the low quality pictures. If it is too difficult to tell, I can try taking better ones. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as I have several more plants that are up to a month or so younger and I would hate to have these plants pollinated if the plant in question does have pollen sacs.

 

[Boostoholic]

Definitely. Looks like it hermed on ya 😟

 

[F10werChyld]

Get that plant away from the girls!

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Yes those are sacks:bawling:

 

[FortyNation]

Thank you very much for the responses, even though it’s a total bummer.....I was reading an article from this site and I saw something about possibly being able to very carefully pluck the sacs on a herm, if there aren’t too many of them. What do you guys think about trying this?

I would say less than half of the bud sites on my plant have the sacs, and most only have a few. The seed I used was just a bag seed, but the bud it came in this past winter was very nice and actually had a decent amount of underdeveloped seeds in it, with a few mature enough To use. Plus, it was packaged professionally for commercial use, with marketing and everything (sorry, idk if this is the correct way to explain this). I just thought it was curious it had so many seeds but was a commercially available product. It was probably the best I’ve had that contained a significant amount of seeds, so I’m really hoping I can salvage at least part of it. Thanks for everyone’s help

 

[FortyNation]

Thank you very much for the responses, even though it’s a total bummer.....I was reading an article from this site and I saw something about possibly being able to very carefully pluck the sacs on a herm, if there aren’t too many of them. What do you guys think about trying this?

I would say less than half of the bud sites on my plant have the sacs, and most only have a few. The seed I used was just a bag seed, but the bud it came in this past winter was very nice and actually had a decent amount of underdeveloped seeds in it, with a few mature enough To use. Plus, it was packaged professionally for commercial use, with marketing and everything (sorry, idk if this is the correct way to explain this). I just thought it was curious it had so many seeds but was a commercially available product. It was probably the best I’ve had that contained a significant amount of seeds, so I’m really hoping I can salvage at least part of it. Thanks for everyone’s help

 

[RagWeedDWC]

Its the ones you don't see that gets you in trouble, I would move it out

 

[FortyNation]

Damn, ok thank you for the advice. I moved the first cereal milk I asked about outside away from my sunroom plants, as suggested. Just have a few more questions....

So after checking my other cereal milk this morning, it looks like this one may have sacs as well...such a bummer. Here are a few pics of the plant in question.

1. This plant also has WAY less potential sacs than the previous one I asked about. I counted about 7-8, but I very well could have missed a few. I understand it a still safer to remove the plant, but does this smaller number of sacs change anything in terms of if it’s salvageable or not? For example, what if I clipped the bud sites that contain the potential sacs? I have about ten main bud sites on this plant with LST, and the sacs are only on a few of them.

2. If the suggestion above is not viable, I am wondering if the only way I could really salvage these is to let them finish flowering completely isolated from everything else? I am just curious how the buds the seeds came from could have seeds and the company still decided to market it? Would that mean the entire grow the buds came from were hermed as well? Sorry if this is a dumb or unanswerable question, I am pretty new to all this.

2. Does the last picture contain a pollen sac, as well? It sort of looks like just some new growth, but I definitely would like a more informed opinion. Thank you everyone for your advice. It is greatly appreciated.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sure looks hermi to me :sweating:

 

[F10werChyld]

You can take tweezers and attempt to remove all the sacs. I have done this before, but I don't recommend it because if you come across a mature one, you'll disperse the pollen and get seedy buds anyway. Any company that markets seedy buds will suffer badly - you just can't do that unless they're advertised as seedy. If you want to try removing the bud sites with the sacs, that may work, just keep a close eye on the other sites as they will have a tendency to go hermaphrodite as well.

 

[FortyNation]

Thank you again everyone. The first plant I’m going to keep outside for good now, but with the second one I removed all the sacs (about 7 or so) and am going to see how it does over the next couple days or so. If more appear I will remove the plant completely. I removed the sacs on a separate location from my sunroom grow as well. In the process of removing them, I came across this. Is this just a plain female preflower? It sort of looks like a pollen sac that is starting to open up a bit, but it also has a pistil on it.

 

[Korn]

You are holding a single female flower that has another male flower anther (aka nanner) emerging from it. A hermaphrodite.

 

[Korn]

FortyNation here is a nice growing guide to help with flower ID. See page 15 for diagrams of abnormal flowers.

 

[MagicMike66]

I would remove it or the rest will get pollinated .