Is My Feminized Photo Seed Plant Really A Male?

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startergrow

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I always buy feminized seeds so I am not familiar with sexing the plants as the seeds are usually what they say they are so far.

I have three Cali Connection LA Cookies which are a couple of weeks in to flower. One looks different and the last few days has flowered differently. I'm embedding a picture.

Is this a male plant?

Is so is it too late has it ruined the other two female plants?

What should I do with it?

Appreciate any suggestions.
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Male Plant
 
Cannot see your photo, it says it is restricted access. It is not unheard of to get a male from fem seeds. Any plant can flip to either sex as a pheno, even though they will remain genetically the same sex as when the seed was formed. Males form pods, or bananas and will grow larger and pop open and release pollen. They lack the two threads (stigma) that female flowers have. No flower threads? Its probably a male.
 
I'd say that is a Male, if it hasn't popped any of them yet (whitish dust all over the place when the pollen starts flying) then you might not get seeds. But looks like it is quite a ways along, so could very well have pollinated some of the Flowers (unless they way behind this one in the cycle). But yeah you probably want to get him out of there either way, unless you are trying your hand at breeding.
 
BTW: It looks like they are just about to pop open and dump pollen. As such, REMOVE THE MALE FROM YOUR GROW AREA, Like NOW! Some seeds will not ruin your crop. Even if you want to breed them, move the male out of the grow area. If I were breeding it, I would cut all but one or 2 blooming branches off the male, and use them to pollinate a few branches of a female.
 
That's an interesting idea BigSur. So it could be possible to grow some seeds on some a couple of the buds and leave the rest.

I might try that.

Stunned, you're right about the back ones. That actually is the same plant stretched out in the SCROG so it's all gone. It all looks kind if sad now but hopefully I caught them in time.
 
From the looks of your second photo, it looks like you had some male blooms pop open and dump pollen. As such your female next to it is likely pregnant. Again, a few seeds will not ruin your buds. I breed plants and smoke the buds of my de-seeded female breeders all the time. Contrary to popular myth, seeded bud will get you good and stoned. Once was a time when all everyone smoked was seeded bud. It was called the 1960s and early 1970s. Also contrary to popular myth, smoking male tops will also get you stoned. Not as stoned as female bud, but stoned. You can cut and dry those male tops. It can be messy though, as dealing with males is a messy business with all the pollen that they dump. And you can pollinate your girls even more by messing with the males and getting pollen on you and then transferring it on them. So unless breeding, destroy the male. BTW: the pollen itself has little THC in it. Another popular myth. Males tend to have more CBD as well, which cuts down on the potential high. When breeding, I keep my males bonsai'd and need only a small plant to get all the pollen I need.
 
If seeds do appear are they basically like the ones I bought? Can I use them to grow other plants?

If so it might not be so bad even if that happens since I paid about $20 a seed for these guys.
 
BigSur said:
Again, a few seeds will not ruin your buds. I breed plants and smoke the buds of my de-seeded female breeders all the time. Contrary to popular myth, seeded bud will get you good and stoned. Once was a time when all everyone smoked was seeded bud. It was called the 1960s and early 1970s.
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My little breeding experiment I didn't notice much difference between the mother that was harvested and the Clone I let get pollinated. Yes Sensimilla probably has a higher THC, but we couldn't tell any difference in the taste or the high really, it was like reminiscing of the old days when it all had seeds ;) :rofl:. Really IMHO only worth a "panic attack" if you are growing commercially, as the value of your product can drop a ton if it has quite a few seeds, otherwise just have to be more careful loading your bowls ;) .
 
startergrow said:
If seeds do appear are they basically like the ones I bought? Can I use them to grow other plants?

If so it might not be so bad even if that happens since I paid about $20 a seed for these guys.
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If the seeds were from the same plant then yes more than likely the same or a phenotype of that Strain, if that Boy was a different Strain then it's a dice roll ;) :rofl:
 
startergrow said:
If seeds do appear are they basically like the ones I bought? Can I use them to grow other plants?

If so it might not be so bad even if that happens since I paid about $20 a seed for these guys.
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Yes, if you let the seeds ripen on the plant, they will be viable and you can grow more plants form the seeds. Its how I have been growing weed for over 40 years now. I do make clones from cuttings and grow out clones, but not as often. Seeds are (these days) often times worth more than the bud that you would get from the females. I grow mainly landraces IBL though, and not modern strains. Your seeds may or may not be standard or fems, depending on if the male is a true male or a pheno male (genetic female). Modern cross strains tend to have a wide variety of genetics and as such will have widely variable phenos from seeds grown from inbred crosses. Meaning that if crossing say, a GG#4 x GG#4 you will get a lot of variety, as opposed to crossing a Mexican landrace that has been stable for 20 or more generations. Stability depends on the strain and grower and if they have grown enough generations and selected for the same traits. As DM said above, its a wide open crap shoot if the male is a different strain. You can get anything from the resulting seeds. If the male and female are siblings or from the same genetic seed lot, then they will be more stable and less variable. If the breeder stabilized the strain before making the seeds that you got and grew, then they are apt to be very similar to the parents if they are from the same lot of seeds. Seems odd that you got a male from fem seeds though. Far more typically you get herms from fem seeds, and not males. Which means they are not really fems, or there was an odd standard seed in the lot from someplace else maybe? Or there was other standard (true) male pollen that contaminated the mother plant that your seeds came from? Hard to say.

I would let the seeds mature on the female and grow the seeds myself.
 
Thanks for all the info. I'd like to give making some seeds a try. Sounds like it might be a bit of crap shoot but could be fun seeing what I get.

I need to dig out some old Biology books, there's some real science involved here.

If I get some usable seeds that might be good for keeping costs down in the future and since I'm just growing for fun it might be fun seeing what comes up.

I'll update with any changes to the remaining plants.

Thanks guys
 
Interesting to me that you aren't versed in flowers vs male plants, but have such a healthy tent! Your plants look to be thriving, and that is a well set up scrog, good job. In the overall scrog pic, the female on the left looks more indica-ish, and the male seems to be more sativa, or some other hybrid. on the back left there seems to be some other sativa dominant plant further along in flower, with leaves loosing green. Perhaps you got some mixed seeds?
 

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