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Jeremius
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Hey my name is Jeremy, I'm growing some of your chocolate frosted sherbet and ran into a few herms, popped 11 got 6 males and 4 herms but I do have a few gnats in the room. I did however clone and saved the girls to give them another go. Using nematodes and stratiolaelaps to quell gnats. Does the sherbert have Hermaphrodite issues? The one female that didn't Herm is looking good day 52 of flower.
HonestGenetics420
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Are you 100% sure they weren’t males? That’s a much higher herm rate than I’ve ever heard or seen on that line. It’s actually a very stable line overall, I personally grew out 50 of them and only found three. That said I don’t know what kind of food you are using or how your room is setup. A lot of things can affect your grow like imbalanced feeding and light leaks
HonestGenetics420
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Where did you buy those seeds? And what temp are you running the room? Those are usually purple at that stage of flower, I find green phenos to be pretty rare in that line
Jeremius
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Yeah they had Stigmas and bananas coming out underneath on two and the other two had a combo flowers. 1 of the males was nice kept a little pollen for a purpledrankberath I have. I'm growing several other strains in the room and no issues. Even a candida fem. I might just have bad luck but luckily the #3 was the one that didn't Herm and it was one of my two favorites in veg.
HonestGenetics420
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I think I remember you. I actually wasn’t there for very long that day, only a couple hours. You were one of the guys talking to OES wondering where I was before I got there since I got there kinda late that day. I think you had said you were growing for your mom if you’re the same guy I’m thinking of. Anyways, sorry to hear about the issue, it’s kinda hard to believe since I’ve had so many growers go through that line and report only one intersex plant in their pack or zero, but that’s just strange and makes me wonder if your soil was running hot or if some other issue was at play. There are additional factors that I can’t really verify without seeing the grow area myself. The most I ever heard coming from one pack was two and since I include about 15+ seeds in my regs it’s not out of the norm for that to happen if “the luck of the shuffle” isn’t in your favor on that pack. I definitely run my lines in bulk and check for these issues ahead of time though, I’m a bit baffled by your report and suspect something grow related occurred. Cannabis females all have the ability to turn “male” if an environmental factor denies the plants the female hormone. And there’s a myriad of things that can do that. So either something was off on your grow or you got a bad shuffle in that particular pack. However like you said you popped 11 so you should have another 4-9 seeds left the way I usually load my reg packs. Odds are they are mostly female. Nature provides a near 50/50 balance that’s almost always in slight favor of females, same as all other species of plants and animals. It’s natures survival mechanism
HonestGenetics420
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Just an FYI, a 62 degree night on an indoor grow is really cold, 68 is about the lowest you should allow, daytime 72 is fine but you’re a little better served a couple degrees higher for optimum yields. I know it’s winter but you might need to add a space heater for your nights. If you do that then keep it high up so it doesn’t blast heat directly onto the foliage, that would crisp them. Better to keep it up high near an oscillating fan. Plants react differently to indoor cold nights than they do to chilly nights outside. Indoor should be a fine tuned precision machine. Everything dialed in and kept in harmony. There’s something to be said about the way plants experience life under artificial lighting vs natural sun
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HonestGenetics420
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Excited to see what you get! That’s one of my favorite freebies too
min0r
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it's funny, i bought the CFS and the purple frosting turned out to be my favorite. i'm thinking the CFS is going to be my quality bud, and PF will be my quantity this grow.Excited to see what you get! That’s one of my favorite freebies too
HonestGenetics420
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The CFS is more head stash for sure by comparison. The Purple Frosting makes marvelous extract and depending on the pheno can also be good for head stash. CFS is just more reliable, it’s always dank af and a lot of the phenos carry through the milk chocolate terp along with the sherb flavors
That’s a typical example of a CFS keeper. That’s Gads #5 pheno out of about 30 that he ran. That one has a really beautiful blend of both parents terps and has insane bag quality after the trim
min0r
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yeah 100% i'd go thru the hassle of re vegging her if she looks like that haha.The CFS is more head stash for sure by comparison. The Purple Frosting makes marvelous extract and depending on the pheno can also be good for head stash. CFS is just more reliable, it’s always dank af and a lot of the phenos carry through the milk chocolate terp along with the sherb flavors
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That’s a typical example of a CFS keeper. That’s Gads #5 pheno out of about 30 that he ran. That one has a really beautiful blend of both parents terps and has insane bag quality after the trim
I just ordered some purple punch (flower) online, hopefully it'll give me something to compare the purple frosting to.
also - pretty sure i've spotted some purple on the purple frosting
you can see it in the middle of the bud, and a few hues of it on the 3rd node down.what week does PF usually start to purple?
HonestGenetics420
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Both of those lines purple pretty reliably. CFS usually gets the “sunset” effect around week 6-7 and goes from green to purple, green phenos at finish in that line are pretty uncommon. And Purple Frosting shows signs of color at a few different stages but also nearly always finishes purple.
Don’t take your Purple Punch flower experience too much to heart btw. The pure line is kinda hard to explain. It’s a much better cut for making oil. As oil it’s crazy loud and exotic and some of the wildest flavor you’ve ever had. But as flower it’s got an amazing smell but a fairly muted taste. I always have considered the best use for Purple Punch as the way it breeds. People seem to forget that I was the first breeder to release Purple Punch lines and the first person with a Punch cross on IG. I was showing off photos of Blue Hurricane on IG back in July 2016 and had those seeds made in May 2016, which was nearly a year before In House, Clearwater, and Symbiotic had crosses made. I had my first small batch of Punch crosses out in late 2016 and remade them only one more time along with adding a few new crosses in April 2017, which was about the same time others started releasing their Punch lines. But no one was showing Punch hybrids before me. I realized after making Blue Hurricane that as a breeder she absolutely shined and made some of the most insane resin density, flavor, and yields in crosses. By herself she looks like she’d be more special but she’s kinda weak on THC and more of a terp plant. Like I said as oil she’s an absolute joy, as flower there’s a lot better stuff to be smoking, but in crosses she adds a serious wow factor to almost anything you could name. She’s a well rounded breeder.
That all being said I retired Purple Punch officially from my breeding catalogue and moved on to a few other things I’ve created which I feel are evolutions of Punch. Among them is Face Punch which I’m now moving onto my limited line Fantasia with. There’s also Punch Farmer aka Red Koolaid, and I’m pretty excited to show off some future work with her. And there’s a few others as well that I felt evolved and built on the original Punch line. I never plan on being a one trick pony, to me Punch in its pure form is a bit played out in crosses and so I’m working with what I feel are evolved forms of what she brought to the table. After all, the goal should always be to make good weed better
You’ll enjoy both of the lines you’re growing right now, I’ve seen incredible things come from both, especially that CFS, total banger line
min0r
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yeah i definitely wanna get new seeds soon, but i wanna wait for something really limited to come out.Both of those lines purple pretty reliably. CFS usually gets the “sunset” effect around week 6-7 and goes from green to purple, green phenos at finish in that line are pretty uncommon. And Purple Frosting shows signs of color at a few different stages but also nearly always finishes purple.
Don’t take your Purple Punch flower experience too much to heart btw. The pure line is kinda hard to explain. It’s a much better cut for making oil. As oil it’s crazy loud and exotic and some of the wildest flavor you’ve ever had. But as flower it’s got an amazing smell but a fairly muted taste. I always have considered the best use for Purple Punch as the way it breeds. People seem to forget that I was the first breeder to release Purple Punch lines and the first person with a Punch cross on IG. I was showing off photos of Blue Hurricane on IG back in July 2016 and had those seeds made in May 2016, which was nearly a year before In House, Clearwater, and Symbiotic had crosses made. I had my first small batch of Punch crosses out in late 2016 and remade them only one more time along with adding a few new crosses in April 2017, which was about the same time others started releasing their Punch lines. But no one was showing Punch hybrids before me. I realized after making Blue Hurricane that as a breeder she absolutely shined and made some of the most insane resin density, flavor, and yields in crosses. By herself she looks like she’d be more special but she’s kinda weak on THC and more of a terp plant. Like I said as oil she’s an absolute joy, as flower there’s a lot better stuff to be smoking, but in crosses she adds a serious wow factor to almost anything you could name. She’s a well rounded breeder.
That all being said I retired Purple Punch officially from my breeding catalogue and moved on to a few other things I’ve created which I feel are evolutions of Punch. Among them is Face Punch which I’m now moving onto my limited line Fantasia with. There’s also Punch Farmer aka Red Koolaid, and I’m pretty excited to show off some future work with her. And there’s a few others as well that I felt evolved and built on the original Punch line. I never plan on being a one trick pony, to me Punch in its pure form is a bit played out in crosses and so I’m working with what I feel are evolved forms of what she brought to the table. After all, the goal should always be to make good weed better
You’ll enjoy both of the lines you’re growing right now, I’ve seen incredible things come from both, especially that CFS, total banger line