those are seeds. you must have a random male flower here and there. unstable genetics maybe.

you can germ the seeds if you let them ripen before plucking them. i let mine go until they fall off when touched. the skin will turn brown when they are ready to be plucked.

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i reread, well reskimmed your first post. you had a few males. perfect. now you have a few seeds for your next grow. YES, these should be good seeds.

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Yeah haha, you've got your hand in the genetics of some weed now, those seeds and their offspring could get smoked by anybody. and also, I meant that by the time your bud looks ready to smoke, and after you dry your bud out regularly, then pick the seeds out normally after you break some bud up. That's what I've read up on what to do...

what if the smoke is ready to be harvested but the seeds aren't quite brown yet? Right now they are a dark green and the seed pods are opened a bit which I think I read means they are getting ripe or at least on their way.

I think I have at least a week on one of the plants and probably closer to 2-2.5 on the other two. they are just past 8 weeks flowering now.

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they may or may not germ.

i let mine ripen on th evine and get 100% germ rate. they start popping overnight.

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well Ill just keep an eye on them as they start to get close to harvest. I still got at least a week. a lot can change in a week.

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judging by your pics, your plants have several weeks left to finish. they are just starting to fill in.

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Yeah. I dunno because everything about this grow is so diffferent than my previous grows. Its the first grow with the tent and also my first grow using a HPS during flowering, So I feel like I did when I was just learning.

The tops still aren't anywhere close for sure. Ive noticed some lower branches that have quite a bit of brown trichs.

We'll see what the magnifier says in a few weeks.

what would you say "quite a while" means?

Im in no hurry since Im just a caregiver for a medical patient, but Im still curious to know since Ive seen your big plants :P

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it's hard to tell really. i have a hard time telling when mine are done. i've gone as far as 11 weeks.

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OH, are you calling the pistils trichs?


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