Just finished week 10 yesterday, and noticed she's still adding on, however, since about last week, I noticed on some spots, a different growth coming out through the flower..looks like a little light green cluster of 'balls'? Only see it in a few places..its only my second grow, not sure if it's normal. Its hard to see in the pics as its not clear..but its the cluster of light green in each pic (not visible in the 2 full shots).
End of week 10 flowering...
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bryan oconner
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wait to long some plants make see,d possible pre see.ds look close use your finger tooth pick see if there is any thing hard forming
Yes..its what it looks like..a possible seed. It was given to me by a friend of a friend and it came from a dispencary, so I don't know the strain..even the leaves looked more indica early on but look more sativa like now. I don't have a microscope or a phone to take macro pics of trichomes, though I don't see anything amber with the naked eye. I was going to harvest 2 days ago, but had no time and checking on it today..the biggest cola is hitting the light as I try to rotate it, looks thicker too than 3 days ago. Just wasn't sure if they were nanners or something like that. The nights are cooler the past few weeks so the leaves turned purple slowly..these little clusters on a few colas closer to the light worried me..but yes..they do look like maybe seeds forming.
HydoDan
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When you harvest keep an eye out for viable looking seeds... They will be Fem'd...
there was nanners somewhere!
I will..not sure if I should chop it now or wait longer? I don't mind having some fem seeds!, but I also don't want to lose a crop because plant hermied at the end.
lol
The buds look good..i was going to chop, its just that when 2 of the colas all of a sudden were hitting the lights after 3 days of not inspecting it..i figured its actually still adding on? So im in limbo lol..I have another 2 gallons of water/molasses waiting..but maybe its best to just let it go and chop it in a couple days then. How long would it take for the seeds to mature enough to be viable ones? Will waiting now be harmful?
The buds look good..i was going to chop, its just that when 2 of the colas all of a sudden were hitting the lights after 3 days of not inspecting it..i figured its actually still adding on? So im in limbo lol..I have another 2 gallons of water/molasses waiting..but maybe its best to just let it go and chop it in a couple days then. How long would it take for the seeds to mature enough to be viable ones? Will waiting now be harmful?On that note I may have found my solution...seems the plant may be past due? Or the cold stress the past 2-3 weeks caused it. They are likely seeds forming...seems as a last ditch effort for the plant to survive..will be chopping it later tonight..but likely tmr after at least 12 hours in the dark.
bryan oconner
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are you sure on that . they were not fem . they should be treated as reg .
HydoDan
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Yea I'm sure.. unless he had a male they are made with female pollen.. makes em Fem'd seeds..
Olive Drab Green
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If it was a herm plant, that has to do with genes, and will produce a regular seed with a dominant herm gene.
Fem seeds are made by using colloidal silver to suppress and inhibit ethylene (the female plant hormone) which doesn't effect the genes, just the chemical process of producing female flowers. So when you pollenate a flower with the feminized pollen, the seed's two sex chromosomes in its DNA--which would usually be from one male parent and one female parent and shuffles between the two with each generation of reg seed, gender-wise--instead, both sex chromosomes will be female, guaranteeing a feminized seed.
If you had a hermaphrodite in the tent and didn't use colloidal silver, that seed will not be feminized. It will carry a hermaphroditism gene, which is dominant and will be expressed in just about every subsequent generation. This is something you do not want. Do not propagate a herm seed.
Fem seeds are made by using colloidal silver to suppress and inhibit ethylene (the female plant hormone) which doesn't effect the genes, just the chemical process of producing female flowers. So when you pollenate a flower with the feminized pollen, the seed's two sex chromosomes in its DNA--which would usually be from one male parent and one female parent and shuffles between the two with each generation of reg seed, gender-wise--instead, both sex chromosomes will be female, guaranteeing a feminized seed.
If you had a hermaphrodite in the tent and didn't use colloidal silver, that seed will not be feminized. It will carry a hermaphroditism gene, which is dominant and will be expressed in just about every subsequent generation. This is something you do not want. Do not propagate a herm seed.
The seeds would be female from my understanding, but it would take too long for them to mature for one, and two, because of how the seed is 'created', it most likely wouldn't be great to grow. From a lot of reading last night, seems the plant is past due, so in a last ditch effort, seed pods are forming. I will be cutting it tonight.
Olive Drab Green
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Hate to disappoint, bro. Just trying to look out. Not there there's anything wrong with the transgender/transsexual community, but you don't want RuPaul all over your grow room, y'know?
HydoDan
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I use these seeds outside, have for years, all female. Don't worry about me with 48 years of growing experience..
You learn from books.. I've done real world growing since 1967.. way more regs than fems... hermies are hermies..
But some females make nanners and pollinate themselves with female pollen without human intervention..
You learn from books.. I've done real world growing since 1967.. way more regs than fems... hermies are hermies..
But some females make nanners and pollinate themselves with female pollen without human intervention..
Absolutely..its what I read in many articles last night as well..just because seed pods appear, doesn't at all mean its a hermie! Had I quit reading after 10 minutes..i would have been left with that conclusion as well!
Since I had no way to see trichs..and I see that for about 2 weeks now there is no more growth..just slow death, that it may have been ready a short while ago. The seed pods are just starting now..still lime green and empty..maybe a handful altogether. Will look out for mature ones after drying, but I wouldn't think there are any
Olive Drab Green
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I'm sure it's possible, just not as typical as a herm'd reg seed.
HydoDan
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You have no real world experience to speak of. So how the fuck do you know every fucking thing about everything...
Five grows, you ain't seen shit.. Speak from experience not from being a book read know it all!!!
Olive Drab Green
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I do have experience. You're just acting like a defensive child.
Have you ever taken a Bio course involving genetics? Like, do you even know what a Punnett Square is? Ask anyone here. A herm seed will carry the herm gene and fill your plant with herm'd reg seeds. You don't want this. This is why we use colloidal silver to produce the effects we want and discard hermaphrodite plants.
I don't need 40 years of experience to know what I'm talking about, I've got a proper education and understand genetics, biology, and horticulture. Even if I didn't, this is basic fucking knowledge in this field.
Fucking whiner, man. I'm looking out for you and you get pissed about it because you want it to be what you want it to be, and it isn't. Ask someone else, whose opinion you might respect. They'll just tell you what I did.
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