when does a plant hermie?

SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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Pretty sure I stressed the he'll out my plant yesterday so far no balls but it is in flowering pistils are showing turns out my stupid Ph meter was giving false info n my Ph is really 4.0 or under and when I moved my plant to flush it with high Ph water I bent the top of the main stem still intact but is bending so who knows how long my Ph is been like that now I know why my leaves been drying up and dying but surprised my plant is still living does a plant hermie in late flowering if it happens or does it happen right away please help!
 
DesertGrow89

DesertGrow89

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Are you using city water? Ideally one should be using reverse osmosis/distilled water. Purchase a TDS (totally dissolved solids) meter, they are cheap and you can get them for around $15. If your meter registers greater than 40 ppm, don't use it. City water has chlorine/chloramine in it, and various dissolved shit that may cause nutrient lockouts/overdose. At a minimum, get a carbon filter to remove the chlorine.
 
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wiethe20

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SmokyLungs said:
Pretty sure I stressed the he'll out my plant yesterday so far no balls but it is in flowering pistils are showing turns out my stupid Ph meter was giving false info n my Ph is really 4.0 or under and when I moved my plant to flush it with high Ph water I bent the top of the main stem still intact but is bending so who knows how long my Ph is been like that now I know why my leaves been drying up and dying but surprised my plant is still living does a plant hermie in late flowering if it happens or does it happen right away please help!
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You can look up your city's water online, just Google it....my tap is perfect, IT just seems when I use ro water I get some type of other def I don't get with my tap
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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I checked my city water Ph with the coloring liquid the Ph of the water is 6.0 range the problem was my Ph Meter I've been using would give me wrong info and I was using Ph down so now my Ph is really low
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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wiethe20 said:
You can look up your city's water online, just Google it....my tap is perfect, IT just seems when I use ro water I get some type of other def I don't get with my tap
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I searched goog can't find anything telling me anything in detail just that they monitor the levels daily
 
undercovergrow

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usually around week three or right at the end of flowering when they've gone a bit too long is when i've noticed it happen but for stress-related herms, i would imagine that could happen anytime. i would also think it would take more than a day or two of stressful situations to induce it as well--if you're room is dialed in now, you should be okay.
someone with more experience regarding the subject will be along soon though. good luck on your grow. are you in soil? stop messing with your pH if so, that should help.
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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undercovergrow said:
usually around week three or right at the end of flowering when they've gone a bit too long is when i've noticed it happen but for stress-related herms, i would imagine that could happen anytime. i would also think it would take more than a day or two of stressful situations to induce it as well--if you're room is dialed in now, you should be okay.
someone with more experience regarding the subject will be along soon though. good luck on your grow. are you in soil? stop messing with your pH if so, that should help.
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Yes I'm in soil and the only reason I was messing with the Ph was cuz my meter was giving me high Ph readings but when I did w legit check on the Ph using the color liquid Ph reader it came out red for low from all the times I fed low Ph water thinking my Ph was high due to the false readings
 
undercovergrow

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SmokyLungs said:
Yes I'm in soil and the only reason I was messing with the Ph was cuz my meter was giving me high Ph readings but when I did w legit check on the Ph using the color liquid Ph reader it came out red for low from all the times I fed low Ph water thinking my Ph was high due to the false readings
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what are you using for feeding your girls?
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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undercovergrow said:
i wouldn't worry about your pH in soil. i haven't used that before, and i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong, but i'd just follow your feeding schedule that's working for you and not worry about the pH anymore.
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Yes it just bothers me that my run off Ph is so low I'm just going to have to let it be and try my best to fix it during my future waterings and hope I don't get a hermie
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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If its a stable strain pH wouldnt herm it I would think. Soil is good at buffering ph. PH would cause other issues. Any yellowing or other spots or anything?
 
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whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Oh yea. Don't worry about the pH of run off. Even with with proper pH water going in doesn't mean it will we the same going out. You measure pH with an electrode. Ferts, salts, change the conductivity of water so your pH meter won't read it right.
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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the whole hermie myth is sooo over rated. don't worry about your plants switch hitting. worry about proper cultural practices and if you see a nanner or two or ten its perfectly normal. plants in late flower almost always throw out a nanner. its bc cannabis is dioecious meaning male and female plants. so if a female plant has no pollinator it makes a nanner so it can produce seed. its all about survival.
sounds like you had a difficult time with this run. its cool. just try again. growing is easy, you'll see.
 
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wiethe20

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SmokyLungs said:
I searched goog can't find anything telling me anything in detail just that they monitor the levels daily
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It has to somewhere buddy, maybe try different wording to find a better page but ....well I'm sorry I didn't ask what country your in...at least in the USA it has to be there....or even call your water dept.or go there, that information is public info...
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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wiethe20 said:
It has to somewhere buddy, maybe try different wording to find a better page but ....well I'm sorry I didn't ask what country your in...at least in the USA it has to be there....or even call your water dept.or go there, that information is public info...
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i've also tried searching for results of my town's water supply, and didn't get much useful info either, fwiw.. maybe i didn't word the search right though, like you said..

to the op, i'd also not worry about ph'ing the water in soil, nor do i.. and like someone else has pretty much said, all the ph of your runoff is telling you is the ph of your runoff, ie, pretty much a useless number imvho..

post up some pix of the girls if you'd like so we can get a better idea of what's going on.. :D
 
SmokyLungs

SmokyLungs

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Here's pics so u can see what I'm dealing with the top seems to be dying off where I snapped the main stem when I moved the plant out of the tent should I just cut off the top? and u can see a lot of the leaves are shrinking and dying off
 

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