What to do when you find a hermie?

[sabasi]

I found one today, about a week ago it was kissing my bulb and got burnt but it had a little new growth the past couple of days. My first thought is keel it! BUT I was wondering if you cut it back down to maybe two nodes and reveged it for a few weeks, would it still be female? Or would it start making little nuts again? Thanks in advance!!

[pine boy]

You can try to cut the nuts off and keep her going.make sure you get them all and keep checking on her.I wouldnt reveg if I were you.It takes a long time to reveg .That plant will be on vacation for a month if you reveg.

[sabasi]

Originally Posted by pine boy

You can try to cut the nuts off and keep her going.make sure you get them all and keep checking on her.I wouldnt reveg if I were you.It takes a long time to reveg .That plant will be on vacation for a month if you reveg.

Ahhh, well I won't worry about picking it's nuts off with tweezers then. Imma thinking there's gonna be another hermie smoke report in a few days then, thanks!! I'm not good with nuts anyways!!

[Jigsy420]

Originally Posted by sabasi

Ahhh, well I won't worry about picking it's nuts off with tweezers then. Imma thinking there's gonna be another hermie smoke report in a few days then, thanks!! I'm not good with nuts anyways!!

If you want to create some (less than stable, perhaps?) Feminised seeds you could seperate it from your sensi grow and allow it to pollinate (itself? or another female...) I know this is not what you were looking for, just tossing some change in there for no good reason....

[raf33]

if it's the only hermie plant,wtach for male flowers and pull them down.if you have many plants in your grow you may not want to risk the whole grow and put the plant down.I always cut them.

[DieAbetic]

clean scissors with alcohol, then like a vet with my poor dog.....cut off the *****. be diligent with this because one ballsack with a little pollen can lead to a dude-fest among your crops....and no one likes that :-P

[sabasi]

Originally Posted by DieAbetic

clean scissors with alcohol, then like a vet with my poor dog.....cut off the *****. be diligent with this because one ballsack with a little pollen can lead to a dude-fest among your crops....and no one likes that :-P

Ya, I took it out, I'm down to 5 females now. Wish these seeds would grow faster as I can't see a perpetual grow happening yet lol Dumb hermies!

[ileso]

Originally Posted by Jigsy420

If you want to create some (less than stable, perhaps?) Feminised seeds you could seperate it from your sensi grow and allow it to pollinate (itself? or another female...) I know this is not what you were looking for, just tossing some change in there for no good reason....

dude, please dont do this... you will be perpetuating the hermie gene and no-one wants that. it really is not a good idea.

as for the original question you can pick them off for sure, if its whats considered a true hermie though its best to compost it and start again.. though some people do grow em all the same and smoke the product

[Lumix]

Smoke her, dose the body good

[Jigsy420]

Originally Posted by ileso

dude, please dont do this... you will be perpetuating the hermie gene and no-one wants that. it really is not a good idea.

as for the original question you can pick them off for sure, if its whats considered a true hermie though its best to compost it and start again.. though some people do grow em all the same and smoke the product

That's what I was fishing for . So do you think that the process of feminising seeds is wrong, morally or practically, and does this practice among breeders and their methods have any limiting factor on perpetuating the herm genetics? From my understanding, this is a recessive trait, and If I haven't totally misunderstood, the right conditions can cause hermaphroditic response in almost any cannabis plant. Of course their will be degrees of sensitivity as part of this genetic variance, but as a general question, in your opinion, are fem'd beans a bad choice in the long run?

[Lumix]

Originally Posted by Jigsy420

That's what I was fishing for . So do you think that the process of feminising seeds is wrong, morally or practically, and does this practice among breeders and their methods have any limiting factor on perpetuating the herm genetics? From my understanding, this is a recessive trait, and If I haven't totally misunderstood, the right conditions can cause hermaphroditic response in almost any cannabis plant. Of course their will be degrees of sensitivity as part of this genetic variance, but as a general question, in your opinion, are fem'd beans a bad choice in the long run?

Morally?

[Jigsy420]

Originally Posted by Lumix

Morally?

More than half joking. But seriously, you could in the scope of things expect that a severe repulsion to hermies may have a moral foundation, at least a consideration. When A herm prone plant makes a contribution to the genetic line through non hermaphroditic means, it may be passing recessive genetics ultimately raising the statistical probability of coming up with more herm gentics in the pool, and further down the line toward infinity a dilute and homogeneously inclined herm property in all plants of the genus. Maybe to the point of asexual reproduction as the norm, culminating in an excessively diminished probability for future generations of pot smokers to be able to smoke sensi. You never know what one is thinking, truly, until they unload it on you themselves. Maybe I should put the bong down momentarily?

[ileso]

fem seeds and hermie traits are two different (though related) things.
hermies are a royal pain that wont go away until you renew your genetics. fem seeds is something else. its an enduced sex reverse using various techniques. breeding fem seeds from the way i see it, if done correctly with lots of love and care in the process is a completely different level from the average breeder... its like the rocket science of cannabis knowledge. i think theres alot of these seeds out there that are just hermie seeds and thats why there are so many males and or hermies in the 'fem seed market'. and that is because people use hermies to fem caus ethey are too lazy to do any real research, because they are in some sort of hurry and plain laziness and disregard for the end user...

when done properly its alot of growers dream product.

[sabasi]

Hmmm I never thought of a hermie being a desirable thing before lol I'm just a noob so they get smoked! LOL Good info tho, thanks!

[Jigsy420]

Originally Posted by ileso

fem seeds and hermie traits are two different (though related) things.
hermies are a royal pain that wont go away until you renew your genetics. fem seeds is something else. its an enduced sex reverse using various techniques. breeding fem seeds from the way i see it, if done correctly with lots of love and care in the process is a completely different level from the average breeder... its like the rocket science of cannabis knowledge. i think theres alot of these seeds out there that are just hermie seeds and thats why there are so many males and or hermies in the 'fem seed market'. and that is because people use hermies to fem caus ethey are too lazy to do any real research, because they are in some sort of hurry and plain laziness and disregard for the end user...

when done properly its alot of growers dream product.

What type of technique would induce seeding without pollinating with entirely feminine pollen containing no male chromosomal information? Is it a manner of inducing that does not require actual pollination, and what possible bio-chems are manipulated in this process that are obviously as instrumental in reproduction as is genetic material. Or is it the gathering of this material in a manner that does not incorporate the normal manner of reproductive stimulation, kind of the same question I know, but it's late for me and I can't formulate the precise aspect I was trying to nail down, I don't think.

[ileso]

you can use Giberellic(?) acid for instance...
theres an experiment going on in another thread using this hormone. applied to the female growing tips at flowering causes male flowers packed with female pollen.

there are more ways, Soma has a natural method...
just that using naturally ocuring harmies is bad science

[Jigsy420]

Originally Posted by ileso

you can use Giberellic(?) acid for instance...
theres an experiment going on in another thread using this hormone. applied to the female growing tips at flowering causes male flowers packed with female pollen.

there are more ways, Soma has a natural method...
just that using naturally ocuring harmies is bad science

O.K., I see. Where did my one post go that I believe made a reference as to why this practice may be considered morally (though not imperatively so) distasteful. I got a quick message that it was to be reviewed by a mod, I think. Eyes are bleeding. Should sleep soon. It does appear that a naturally or spontaneously appearing herman would probably be best left out of the running for genetic preponderance.

[jangel]

I am not sure why that happened, but I will moderate it on....I was looking for it and no idea why that happened....no worries though. Just a glitch.

Peace

[Lumix]

Morality has nothing to do with cannabis hemming at all, so I guess you are joking.
Just as bad as saying someones a racist for commenting on a women to big breast.

Racism has NOTING to do with the size of a womens breast, race are nationalities NOT big breast but people throw around the word racism with brainless glee.

So go ahead with the misuse I guess

Also, maybe this one
gibberellic acid

[ileso]

ah i see where he's going with the morally thing.
it would be true if the fem seed thing were a scam.but its not.
so its only morally wrong if you try to sell hermie seeds as fem seeds.


i mean its not fair on those who end up with the seeds...