Seeds not maturing on an auto?

TheGreatSouthern

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Hi all,

I have been busy restarting my grow after not doing any for a few years. I am running Critical Kush from feminized seeds I created from my last grow. Along side the CK I have also run my first batch of autos. They are Auto Mendo Mass.
I decided to try and switch over to the Autos completely and run them long term as they are quick to mature and the bud is just insane, so I applied colloidal/ionic silver via foliar spray once flowering began to the strongest plant and placed her (him? Bruce Jenner??) between the fan and the rest of the Mendos through flower and gave the stem a good shake each day as the feminized pollen was released from the flowers in addition to some hand pollinating of the main colas. All appeared to be textbook and the 4 female Mendos started swelling up with probably well over a thousand seeds between them.

The problem is that they now appear to be.... well.... "stuck". The seeds appear to have reached between 90% and 100% of the size they should be but are all still green. we are into about week 15 now. They are each still consuming about 0.4 gallons of nutrient solution per day. I tried germinating one seed last week and nothing.

Has anyone tried making feminized seeds from Autos before or can anyone offer any advice? I'm currently just planning to keep lights on them and keep feeding them until they die by themselves and hope like hell these seeds ripen up.

Sorry no photos :(
Any help greatly appreciated
TGS
 

bobqp

Well-Known Member
Hi all,

I have been busy restarting my grow after not doing any for a few years. I am running Critical Kush from feminized seeds I created from my last grow. Along side the CK I have also run my first batch of autos. They are Auto Mendo Mass.
I decided to try and switch over to the Autos completely and run them long term as they are quick to mature and the bud is just insane, so I applied colloidal/ionic silver via foliar spray once flowering began to the strongest plant and placed her (him? Bruce Jenner??) between the fan and the rest of the Mendos through flower and gave the stem a good shake each day as the feminized pollen was released from the flowers in addition to some hand pollinating of the main colas. All appeared to be textbook and the 4 female Mendos started swelling up with probably well over a thousand seeds between them.

The problem is that they now appear to be.... well.... "stuck". The seeds appear to have reached between 90% and 100% of the size they should be but are all still green. we are into about week 15 now. They are each still consuming about 0.4 gallons of nutrient solution per day. I tried germinating one seed last week and nothing.

Has anyone tried making feminized seeds from Autos before or can anyone offer any advice? I'm currently just planning to keep lights on them and keep feeding them until they die by themselves and hope like hell these seeds ripen up.

Sorry no photos :(
Any help greatly appreciated
TGS
Yeah matey I've made fem seeds from autos with cs. My seeds matured between 24 days and 35 days. Its very strange your seeds arnt maturing. How many weeks ago did you pollinate the plants.?
 

TheGreatSouthern

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Yeah matey I've made fem seeds from autos with cs. My seeds matured between 24 days and 35 days. Its very strange your seeds arnt maturing. How many weeks ago did you pollinate the plants.?
Hey Brother, thanks for your input and sorry it took me so long to get back to you on it. Reason for that was I wanted to be sure the seed I got was viable and I germinated the first lot today.
So I think the reason it all took so long was because being my first run with Autos I wasn't really sure when to start spraying CS, and I started spraying maybe a week after the first pistil came through so the first viable pollen coming off that plant might have been a bit late. The seed looked mature and was harvested at 17 weeks from germination, so almost 120 days. Crazy.
Anyways I wound up with over 7000 seeds off 6 plants (gave up counting and just weighed the bastards), and I'm doing a big outdoor run of 1000-1200 starting this month so I wet about 1300 of them this morning and by 9pm about 10 percent of them have already popped. Never seen seed germinate in 12 hours before wtf. Normally the seed you get from seed banks takes 4 days to a week and a half!
I wound up using pollen from the strongest Mendo Mass to pollinate 4 x Mendo Mass, 1 x White Widow and 1 x Amnesia (all Autos) so it will be interesting to see how these hybrids all turn out.
So thanks again for your advice and happy growing. I'll probably do a journal on this next run in case anyone's interested, it's going to be an epic grow.
 
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