Frank Nitty
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Now what I want to know is what are these? They look like little balls but they have the white pistils coming out of them.... I hope they're not hermied!!! 
Day 29 Auto skunk and NL Big Bud auto
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MATTYMATT726
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Balls usually are bad. When close to harvest you can pluck them off carefully so they dont bursy open and pollinate. Hard to tell as i never had balls yet.
DownUnderDoper
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Those look to be female.
Frank Nitty
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I read somewhere that if you keep the light on autos 24/7 they will hermie... Im new to this so i don't know... Thanks for letting me know!
Frank Nitty
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They're on all my autos!!! Not good!!!
Canadianmade840
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No! Think genes, man! Autoflowering cannabis can be traced to places like Siberia. The weird part of the world where you can have months on end of light or dark. They adapted to take well to both... I have an autoskunk growing at the moment too, from Seedsman Seeds. Mine flowered super late though, it’s around 100 days old and half done flowering now, and it has NEVER been in the dark.
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MATTYMATT726
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Hmm. Well not sure what they are but don't jump to conclusions yet. Id google it and see what comes up. I honestly can't help with this cause I've just not had it happen where i looked like i had sacks. Don't recall pistols growing on them though so might just be new buds growing.
MATTYMATT726
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Nah, Mephisto runs 24/7
Frank Nitty
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So just flush it then?
Frank Nitty
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Thats what I was thinking also...it just looks crazy like that!
Canadianmade840
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Why flush it? The Calyxes on your plant look perfectly normal to me.. I don’t have very many standalones like the ones in the pictures, but they do form sometimes. Generally speaking, hermie’d plants produce totally round balls, that burst open to drop pollen.. the thing with that is; that you have pistillate growth on your plant. It’s totally normal. I’ve seen MANY people worry just too much about this with the early flowering plants.. what Breeder are your seeds from? If they’re stable enough, you can abuse autoflowers like unwanted stepchildren before they actually have much repercussion.. i’ve Got one right now that was my “how much shit can I give this before it turns?” Plant, and it still never happened. Intentionally rusted, underfed, snapped multiple times.. still perfectly on track. Unless you seem to have a very obvious nutrient problem (burnt/clawed leaves, greytip, etc) I wouldn’t worry about flushing.. just feed them plain water with healthy amounts of runoff, and they should be fine
Frank Nitty
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Thats the plan!!! I mran, its only 46 days old...still young in the game...
Canadianmade840
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It looks just fine, then. I l’ve had autos take over 50 days just to start flowering too, so yours showing calyxes this early is totally a normal thing
MATTYMATT726
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If it helps, everyone runs into problems here and there. My tent only has 2 Ripleys OG and temps are 78° atm(no fans) and might've overwatered/nuted by the slight discoloration on leaves. But make no mistake, they'll see the finish and look good as fuck getting there XD no sweat. Just watch them and write stuff down for future grows.
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Frank Nitty
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Thats what's up!!! I won't worry about it so much then...
Thanks for the pep talk, it really does help
MATTYMATT726
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Yeah, for the most part i really do t think you have much going bad as you do. A little over nuted is no biggie. Always a flush or 2 away from a fix. Light burns or heat, all fixable. Only time i think something is bad is pests and serious discolorations. Keep up the keeping up and you'll be good.
Frank Nitty
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Right, will do
Hucklebetty420
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She looks like female to me. Maybe she were stressed and made the calyxes look a bit different? Overall she looks good, good job.
Canadianmade840
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Okay, so after some reviewing, I can safely say that you have female flowers growing, with 99.99% confidence. An easy way to tell, is that the ends are already open. Male flowers often have 3 or more sections as well, whereas the female calyx typically is composed of a left+right half, because when the plant gets seeded, the calyx is the protective outter layer for the seed. This is likely to be the easiest way for you to identify it, should you ever run into problems again
Frank Nitty
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Thanks for the info dude!!!Okay, so after some reviewing, I can safely say that you have female flowers growing, with 99.99% confidence. An easy way to tell, is that the ends are already open. Male flowers often have 3 or more sections as well, whereas the female calyx typically is composed of a left+right half, because when the plant gets seeded, the calyx is the protective outter layer for the seed. This is likely to be the easiest way for you to identify it, should you ever run into problems again