I started to see a few seeds growing in areas that I did not pollinate. I think I must have just had some stray pollen floating around somewhere in the cabinet or stuck in a fan or something, so I gave everyone a spray-down of water.
Surprise surprise, I actually found 3 pollen sacks growing on different plants! They weren’t open at all and I was able to extract them without anything happening. Made me think these aren’t as stable as I was hoping. I’m now on a serious herm-alert for the rest of the grow. Luckily my plants are small enough that this doesn’t take very much time and I can do it every day when I water them, but man this throws a whole wrench into my game. There’s no light leaks and I can’t imagine plants looking this good have experienced any stress. Except, actually, a few days ago I decided to clean up some lower branches, so i stripped a few leaves and way-low bud sites. Maybe that snipping was enough to trigger some of these girls?
Anyway, 3, 5, and 6 are on the bad-kid list right now. If I have any more problems their clones are getting the boot. I don’t have space for all these plants and if I can help remove that trait from the gene pool I’ll be double happy.
This makes me re-think my herm-male reading I did from DJ short’s articles. I’m probably inclined to believe intersex is intersex regardless of what sex plant expresses the most.