Spontaneous Seeds?

[NorthernCosmos]

[Copied from my journal - hoping for better visibility here]

I just ground some OG Kush Auto, and out of the grinder rolled a seed...(!)

How can that be? There are no males here. The only nannering hermie I had was many months ago, and no pollen escaped AFAIK, so I don't think it can't be that. The OG Kush in question had no nanners or balls that I could see. Are spontaneous seeds somehow a possibility at all, with hermieing and sex changes and whatnot being things that these plants can do?

As can be seen in the picture, a small section of the seed shell broke off in the grinder, exposing the insides. The big question is, will it germinate... What do you reckon? Of course I will try anyway...

 

[Pennywise]

Had to be a nanna there somewhere.

 

[NorthernCosmos]

OK, that makes sense of course. I just couldn't find any nanners by close inspection.

One possibility is that there are/was a few pollen lose from those previous nanners, although nothing has happened for several generations in the tent.

Another possibility is that it was a seed from a hermied plant. At least I've read that it can happen that way.

If (when!) I germinate that seed it shall not grow in the tent with the others. I'll even move it to a different building, just to be sure.

I'll inspect the rest of those buds closely for seeds as I consume them.

 

[Pennywise]

A lot of times you can take a female that makes a nanner or two early and clone it and the clones won’t show intersex.

 

[NorthernCosmos]

Aha. Note these these are autos; is cloning part of auto seed production? So it's not an impossibility to get a store bought seed like that, even an auto?

The nanners I had was back in March, that's 8 months and many plants ago

Just trying to pinpoint the source of this as I'd like to avoid it in the future.

 

[Pennywise]

I don’t think you can clone an auto. They can show intersex traits though.

 

[NorthernCosmos]

OK - I guess this will remain a bit of a mystery.. Oh well, never a dull day in the tent

 

[Pennywise]

Nope always finding mysteries in my grows.

 

[Dwight Monk]

OK, that makes sense of course. I just couldn't find any nanners by close inspection.

One possibility is that there are/was a few pollen lose from those previous nanners, although nothing has happened for several generations in the tent.

Sometimes they just throw out 1 or 2 trying to self preserve, could have came out somewhere you couldn't see did it's thing and disappeared...... can't see pollen remaining viable that long and skip some grows like that personally, so either a stray nanner or you brought in some stray pollen from outside from who knows where nearby.

 

[NorthernCosmos]

Thanks for your thoughts, guys!

With no definitive reason, I'll monitor things closely for a while. If it happens again, I'll "sterilize" the tent to be sure.

 

[Pennywise]

Once farmers start growing more and more hemp outdoors it’s going to get ugly.

 

[013]

No practical experience with cloning an auto.... but pretty sure I’ve read before that you can clone an auto but the caveat is given the faster timeline there is not much point since the clone is the same age as the host it was cut from.

But as always I defer to what Pennywise says - dude is a walking growcyclopedia!

 

[Dwight Monk]

Once farmers start growing more and more hemp outdoors it’s going to get ugly.

It's already a problem in some places, bunch of folks outdoor plants got messed up here in OR a couple years ago. As many Hemp farmers using Fem, but some just using regular seeds (and the Fem rate on Hemp is a lot worse for Feminized than Cannabis is, for some reason or just because a newer thing).

 

[Pennywise]

I’ve read stories from cannabis growers in Kentucky having pit sites fully seeded by hemp plants.

 

[bobrown14]

Had to be a nanna there somewhere.

Could be a neighbor growing males??

 

[Pennywise]

Always possible you never know