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HowHighAreYou
HowHighAreYoustarted grow question 3 years ago
Hi, I need help with my autoflowers. Today I noticed that buds are producing seeds. One of the plants is hermaphrodite and I completely missed it. What should I do now? Should I just finish the grow? Will harvesting earlier result in less seeds? Should I remove the herm. plant?:(
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 3 years ago
Firstly, the seeds in all the plants will be hermaphrodite due to hermaphroditism being a dominant genetic. Basically, hermaphrodite pollen breeds hermaphrodite plants. For "normal" plants, you need to breed with pollen from a pure male and fertilize a pure female plant. So unless you are interested in breeding a line of hermaphrodites, those seeds should be/are useless. Harvesting earlier will not result in less seeds, just smaller immature seeds, but still the same number of seeds. If your plants are well seeded it is probably too late to affect any changes by removing the hermie plant, but I would be anyhow as the buds will be rubbish and full of hermie seeds too. For me, a hermie is an instant cull, no matter what. Unfortunately, now that your plants are growing many, many seeds, they will actually stop producing trichomes as trichomes are a defence mechanism to protect the unpollinated embryonic seeds from over heating. The longer the embryonic seeds stay unpollinated, the more trichomes develop and the more potent the flowers. Once pollinated, the plant does not need to protect any embryonic seeds, therefore trichome production ceases and the plant will invest all of its energy into growing the seeds. If you are relatively early in flowering, some newer parts of the flowers may be seedless, but even at this early stage, a decent amount of pollen will ensure whatever flowers there are already, will be fully seeded and there is a high likelihood that there will be enough residual pollen in your grow space to continue fertilizing any new growths, but removing the hermie plant asap can reduce the incidence of further pollination/fertilization. If it were me, I would remove the hermie asap, continue growing and hope for the best. Then again, if they are all heavily seeded, starting over might be a painful but more realistic option. Hope this helps, Organoman.
HighRoller909
HighRoller909answered grow question 3 years ago
Harvesting early in that situation will be the worst move to do.Buds producing seeds is not the end of the world mate. Seeds are the sign to show that a plant wants to continue living. Just let it finish.It is too late to take precautions if there are seeds. earlier harvest will not end up in fewer seeds. will end up in immature seeds, you'll have less potent buds because it is too early harvested and seeds off of them won't work. There will still be the same amount of seeds at the end if you let it finish or at least you won't notice the difference in amount. but they'll be mature to plant next time. If you harvest now, both your buds and seeds in them will be trash.
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MrNObody_Grows
MrNObody_Growsanswered grow question 3 years ago
Harvest early or remove the plant. If you are good with some seeds to possibly grow and experiment then keep her and let those seeds mature. Happy growing my friend!
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Bhangi_Zimidar
Bhangi_Zimidaranswered grow question 3 years ago
Harvesting earlier will result in fewer seeds. I spotted a seed on my outdoor grow in week 6 of flower, meaning a pollinator bred my plant. This is a good thing because the strain I'm growing has run out of seed stock, so I am happy to get half the genetics.
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