“Her” is my girlfriend not the commenter. Yes, he was a dick about it but it sounds from much of the above like I may want to bump up my grow hygiene.
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Ah ok, I misunderstood the part about the joke. With the added info it sounds like you’re looking to possibly produce some reversed pollen. It also sounds as if you’re unsure whether it is an actual herm or just stress induced (old school feminizing techniques, if only by accident). If it were me, I would do the branch in water trick, possibly at your girlfriend’s place, by cutting off a branch and putting it in a glass until it drops its pollen. Torch the rest of that plant, and just store the pollen until you are sure if the clone is fem, Male, or herm. This way you’re significantly reducing the risks to any grow in the area, as well as yours, and making an informed decision as to whether to produce seed with the pollen or not. If you decide to use it you can just use a paint brush or qtip to apply it to the buds you want to pollenate.
Good luck!
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A question then:
If an unstressed clone taken before Korin started showing male features remains unapologetically female, does that mean that the herming was a stress reaction and not a predetermined genetic expression?
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Never kept them long enough to find out, I know, no help
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From my understanding all plants are prone to go hermie with enough stress. Some will just turn easier than others. Its when they turn herm easily or under ideal conditions that most people try to cull out of the gene pool.
If your clone stays female with no Male parts through a whole grow then the pollen you collect from the current hermie should produce fairly stable feminized seeds. As far as I can tell, this is how early feminizing/selfing was done and should have similar results to CS.
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Thank you for all your excellent feedback! It has significantly influenced my next steps. If you have more for me on the transportation question I welcome it.
I want to talk about getting the two existing grafts (and possibly a third graft of a filial) polinated and then letting the seeds finish on Korin as a neutered bonsai, perhaps one whose only branches are female. Keeping them (good choice in pronouns, Korin!) alive over the winter and having the option of cloning in spring if anything remarkable materializes.
I’m a little high but that plan lifts my luggage.
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Most people I know just dump them, ain’t worth time and effort especially if it stays hermie, you could’ve had a stable one in it’s place by the time the Hermie finishes.
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That will perhaps be a learning for next year. It took five months for Korin to reveal their sex.
I will take what pollen I can get, make seeds and keep them until I have better.
Yield is not my issue. If I go through a gram in a week I feel like a stoner. This is all about learning and sharing (though perhaps not hermie seeds and pollen) now. “Too much trouble” may be just what I need.
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Please somebody send @AllOra some Feminised seeds so he can ditch the hermi prone genetics and not make more. I would but don’t have any fems.
Keep smiling.
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Ahhh! No! The need is for pollen! Preferably Panama Red pollen as I am told the herm tendency comes from the CG side. If I could back cross with PR that would be the best way to breed away from the trait and serve the grower community.
I have already checked with the provider of the seeds. He does not have PR pollen available. I would pay shipping if anyone had this available.
But thank you @Pedro_Bann, for the sentiment and guidance.
Edit: note, it is not my intention to breed Korin. The pollin, Darrion Gap or PR is for the other CGxPR.
The herm has been moved indoors. Skylight and drip waiters. Not optimal but this plant has survived everything I have thrown at it and taught me every step of the way.
Korin survived my 10 day absence in reduced light with water waiters at their service.
Big girly cola
Laura and Dora grafts are thriving with puffy seed bags on both.
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GF says that Korin smells like cocoa and asks after me when I am away. She doesn’t touch them because they’re itchy. Bloody damn right they are.
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ROFL… what the actual fuck… Seriously it’s shit like this that is the reason I only bother with OG. It’s a free country, and in all my long years of being a stoner/grower I have never heard of ‘etiquette’ on how you do whatever you want with pollen. I’d be telling them to sit on it and rotate… 
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Are the seeds produced by hermaphroditic self pollination always female?
Yep, and you don’t want to be dealing with that shit, trust me 
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I remember throwing the boys in a trailer and taking them down the dump with the mad uncles to get rid of them. The joy of living free hey? lmao
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This is Cora2. Korin’s clone from before they transitioned. She shows no sign of balls, nanners, or boy flowers (yet.)
I am thinking (so far) that Korin was stress hermed and that their genetics are not definitively discardable. Not to say that I will treat their seeds and pollen casually, but they have many excellent traits (strong structure, excellent vigor, large well defined colas, cloneable, reversible, graftable as root stock… Stress tolerant). The potential for self preservation may not be all bad.
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