Looking for some info on the early miss strain
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Just found i have hermieS in week 7 of flower. Should i just keep on keeping on or seperate the bad 3-4 from the 8. Blueberry strain and NY deisel. I am devastated. First timer. I found bsnans on what I thought was my best and started looking at others and found a few ripe seeds visible wo digging through bud. I guess i got lazy the few weeks. I had seperated them and put 400 more watts on them but i had 400 on the whole 8 to begin with. Ok I had 8 together and they got congested so i took 4 out and put 400 watts on them. I was told more light can never hurt and i put mirrors around them. What a mess,i was counting on a good crop now im ready to trash all of them. Any help
First, mirrors... are not
completely useless - but they're not far from it (IMHO). You'd have been far better off if you'd primed and painted them flat white, lol. They do not actually reflect that high of a percentage of the light that hits them (they might reflect
heat energy back at your plants though :rolleyes3 .
As far as your hermaphrodites... A high level of stress (or normalcy interspersed with periods of high stress) can cause male flowers. It's a survival mechanism. Conditions not greatly conducive to life? Form a bunch of seeds and try again next year, lol. But it is also not at all unheard of for some strains to produce male flowers (on otherwise female plants) late in the flowering period. Now... This is primarily noted with long-flowering strains, where a plant that has, for example, a 15-week flowering period might start producing a male flower "or two" (lol) in the 12th week and after. However, there are also strains that seem prone to do it from day one of flowering. And if you happen to be growing a strain that is both prone to this behavior AND a long-flowering strain... I always loved Thai sativas - but I always HATED growing them.
Unfortunately, since you have already found seeds, at least one of the plants in your grow room has been producing male flowers for a while (it takes, IIRC, around four weeks for pollinated female flowers to produce mature seeds - although this can vary slightly by strain). The production of THC (et cetera) slows
markedly after pollination, because producing offspring (in this case, seeds) is an organism's primary (you could say sole) purpose in life and, well...
mission accomplished, lol. If you were very early in the flowering period and saw more than a sporadic few male flowers being produced, I would most likely recommend "canceling" the offending plant(s). But at seven+ weeks into flowering... IDK. If it were me, I might do a great deal of b!tching but continue, on the basis that, well... Although sinsemilla is the goal, even seedy bud beats no bud.
Lose the mirrors! Go to the nearest Home Depot and pick up a gallon of Zinsser 123 primer and a gallon of BEHR Premium Plus Ultra paint (WHITE - flat white should give the highest reflectivity, although eggshell or satin will allow you to clean the walls when they need it (semi-gloss will be even more durable, but provide even less reflectivity, so...)).
