Hermies or calyxes?

[maebug]

Hello! First post here. I am about 3.5 weeks into the flowering stage and I started noticing what appears to be pollen sacs on a couple of my female plants. They looked too much like pollen sacs, not calyxes, for comfort so I ended up plucking them, figuring I'd rather have a slightly smaller yield than a bunch of pollinated plants. I ended up putting them in a plastic bag and putting them in the fridge, hoping that maybe

I think there's a few possibilities:
- I got some bad seeds, despite them being labelled as feminized seeds, and I need to keep after plucking the pollen sacs while making sure they aren't calyxes
- The plants are stressed about something. My guess would be the temperature and humidity as the winter has started to make things a bit chilly in the house. I reset my humidity and temperature gauge and should know tomorrow if there's too much fluctuation there
- I don't know what I'm doing and I should stop plucking these

Any advice would be much appreciated!

 

[maebug]

Didn't finish thought at end of first paragraph: maybe using the pollen to make feminized seeds in the future

Also, the strain is Blue Dream

 

[Lerugged]

Yep that's a herm. Sorry man. Pollen is no good. The seeds will be prone to hermie too. Welcome to the forum. This place has everything you need to know and more

 

[maebug]

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm going to isolate the plants that didn't have any pollen sacs and keep plucking the others. Hopefully I'll still end up with an okay yield. Much appreciated!

 

[bobrown14]

If its only those 2 down low inside - plucking them off should work fine. They are usually sterile anyway. Sometimes that little flower above the nanner (its not a full blown male flower btw) will sometimes just grow down and around the nanner and you MIGHT get 1 or 2 seeds.

Keeping that area cleaned up will reduce these issues.

 

[Dosmokethereefer]

My extraction packed up on me 3 wk into flower with a 600w hps in a 2x2x5 nxt mornin my plants were covered in those i made the mistake of cuttin them down the flowers i did leave didnt grow any more i wish i hadnt cut them back but hey ho

if i hadnt i wouldnt have had room for these girls.!

 

[Lerugged]

If its only those 2 down low inside - plucking them off should work fine. They are usually sterile anyway. Sometimes that little flower above the nanner (its not a full blown male flower btw) will sometimes just grow down and around the nanner and you MIGHT get 1 or 2 seeds.

Keeping that area cleaned up will reduce these issues.

Yeah and spray the flowers with water. A few seeds isn't the end of the world.