Female with seeds....

[noobiegrower]

Cannabis discussion.

Ok ive grown 2 female plants outdoors before so im a little experienced.

This time ive got 1 outdoor female plant. I live in an area where all the properties are between 1/2 to 1 acre yet somehow my only plant (female) has seeds. IVe seen bud thats had seeds all over it and my plant looks like only a little bits been polinated cause the seeds are pretty sparse.

Is there any way to use the seeds as a guide for as when to harvest?


The seeds greenish/brown at the moment but have a bit to go. If i wait for the seeds to fully develope will that be a good time to harvest the bud?

I kept a close eye on the plant so i dont think it was a hermaphrodite, im guessing one of my neighbors has some males about.

 

[Chaos Butterfly]

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CB

 

[Blowmonkey]

The seeds greenish/brown at the moment but have a bit to go. If i wait for the seeds to fully develope will that be a good time to harvest the bud?

Actually, no. It fully depends on when the buds have been pollinated. That might be 2 weeks from the end of maturity, could be 5 even 6. Seeds generally mature in ~4 weeks. Buds generally mature in ~9 weeks, ofcourse depending on the strain. A good indicator are the trichomes, here's something to go by:

 

[FR4C74L_M47H*.*.*.]

Also, putting excessive stress on a female can cause it to go "hermie" and produce seeds without pollination as a last ditch effort at propagating itsef, because the plant thinks it is going to die. That is a likely possibility since the seeds seem to be sparse and there are no males around that you are aware of.

Use blowmonkey's guide and a jeweller's magnifying glass (10x magnification or so) to know when to harvest.

 

[kidfrolf]

when a femal goes hermie does it produce only female seeds?

 

[Blowmonkey]

No. That's when you pollinate an all female plant with the pollen that came from the hermaphrodite. They will never turn completely female though, it's called feminized, which means you might run in a hermie here and there, female seeds are produced with wacky chemicals I can't remember the names of.

 

[pin]

when a femal goes hermie does it produce only female seeds?

Take down the hermi, had one creep up on my last season and pollinate before we caught on goddamnit.

 

[naton]

a rogue male in the woods or someone's house can pollinate miles and miles away

 

[funks_hybrid]

a rogue male in the woods or someone's house can pollinate miles and miles away

there's your culprit. you got another grower in your neighborhood

 

[pin]

Seek out his plants! haha ;p

tell your neighbor to cut his damn males down so they dont pollinate yours.

 

[goonermx]

Aren't hermies a bitch? For some reason some strains seem less able to handle stress and more likely to hermie out for little or no reason. If it was an indoor setup then I'd say %99 chance it was a hermie flower in there but outdoors.. depends on the area I guess. Unless your plants are huge or in a place you don't want to spend much time at you should be able to spot the male flower(s) after some time.

Might be worth keeping the seeds though, depending on the previous breeding I think you could be looking at an F1 hybrid, which can occasionally produce pretty spectacular individual plants. Right? Blowmonkey can surely correct me if I'm wrong, its been like 5 or 6 years since I grew anything so my knowledge is a bit rusty.

 

[naton]

^Hybrid vigor! F1 hybrids are often hardy, vigorous, fast growing plants.. this goes for most plants, not just cannabis