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thefooz

Both plants in tent hermed. Suggestions for next steps?

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Hi everyone, I've got 2 Mephisto sour stomper autos in my 2x4 that hermed hard (found and pulled about 40 pollen sacks between the two). We've had a few weeks of 100+ degree temps, so I'm guessing it was due to stress. They're about halfway through flower, and I don't have any other plants going, so my thought was to keep both and keep hunting for pollen sacks. I'm guessing I'll probably miss at least one and end up with some seeds, but it seems like a shame to chop them at this point.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Posted Aug 30, 2021, 6:20 PM UTC

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parsing_treesMod | Coco•

You could still make ice water hash, dry sift, etc. with them even if they end up obnoxiously seedy.

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thefoozOP•

Good point. Any thoughts on how many seeds I could expect if a couple of pollen sacks slip by me? Are we talking hundreds or thousands?

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parsing_treesMod | Coco•

When I've intentionally pollinated, I've pulled 50-200 seeds off the lower branches of a plant in a solo cup.

Enough that you'll be counting them by weight rather than individually?

They are more likely to show intersex traits themselves, so if you grow them, watch them carefully. They would probably be good for experimenting with different germination approaches or something, though.

Edit: On second thought, if it took 100F+ temperatures to make them herm, it may not be that much of an issue as long as you just don't grow them in the summer?

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thefoozOP•

Thanks! Very helpful info.

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flordeporro•

u/parsing_trees would leaving them to pollinate the other plants be a good or bad idea?

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parsing_treesMod | Coco•

There are a lot of trade-offs. Normally I wouldn't use any seeds that came from herms, because they're more likely to herm themselves, but if it only happened because of stress from 100F+ temperatures, that stress may not be an issue in other grows?

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flordeporro•

Thanks! Im having this happen to me now, but my CannaCheese Hermed without any stress. I have another canna cheese and a mango smile next to the Hermed one, and I'm considering experimenting and making seeds and crossing with the mango even if it means higher chance of herm trait being I'm the offspring. What are the chances of this happening btw? I wouldn't use the seeds of the Hermed plant, only the ones of the other two.

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Gdamnweeds•

Keep em goin. I had a photo germ on me and got hundreds of seed as well as some hard hitting bud. I don’t really understand why people are so negative on them. I get it that they want ‘the best’ but Jesus man, you’ll go mad fighting Mother Nature. Grow it and smoke it buddy.

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Rndmdvlpr•

How are the plants that result from those seeds?

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Gdamnweeds•

Plant was just chopped a month ago. Haven’t tried germinating the seeds yet. Flower is strong though.

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Rndmdvlpr•

Nice. Looking forward to hearing about the rest someday.

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Gdamnweeds•

Most definitely! Before this plant turned the flower had a gorgeous lemon scent. Once I’m ready to I’m popping these babies and hoping they run the full course.

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thefoozOP•

I hear you. I've just never had to deal with a herm, let alone two.

I'm trying to be vigilant about the balls, but realistically, any thoughts on how many seeds I'd be looking at if a couple of pollen sacks slip by? Are we talking tens, hundreds, thousands?

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TheDiscoBear•

If you are already halfway through flower, you are likely to get immature seeds (if any) from pollen sacs forming at this point, since sacs and seeds take weeks to develop.

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thefoozOP•

Thanks. I'm on day 49 from sprout, and guessing I have another 20-30 days. I think you're right. Probably not long enough to get viable seeds.

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Gdamnweeds•

Dunno, cool thing though some will be from self pollination and others will be crosses. It would be fun to see how they turn out. Parsing Trees makes a good point too.

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thefoozOP•

Interestingly, because they're both Sour Stompers, even the crosses will be of the same strain.

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Gdamnweeds•

Ah didn’t catch that part. Whatever the case you’ll have a lot of seed to plant in the future.

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