First Time Grower - 3 Auto Strains

[iSmokes]

Are these male pollen sacks? Any input is much appreciated, because if they are, they're showing up everywhere on diva by the hour. I saw 2 pistils, exactly 2 pistils on Diva that turned brown. I know what that is, but I'm still in denial.

 

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[Jfault20]

uh oh

 

[spring2012]

Man I think they are sacks. I looked around at pics and looks so. I can remember DP talking about this scenario or it may have been Smokem. I would hit them up quick and see what they know. Xlr8 too.

 

[spring2012]

By the way maybe you should get a palm reading while the pic is up!! LOL!

 

[Fluffy Haze]

Oh no....oh no no no....

I can't help as I have absolutely no idea but I really hope we are wrong!

 

[spring2012]

Me too.

 

[iSmokes]

Man I think they are sacks. I looked around at pics and looks so. I can remember DP talking about this scenario or it may have been Smokem. I would hit them up quick and see what they know. Xlr8 too.

Yeh they are .. I don't know what to do though. They're showing up everywhere on Diva. Is this some sort of self preservation technique? The whole hermi deal? If it is, that means I'm stressing my plant somehow and she's trying to make seeds to preserve her genes? I don't know what to do really, I'm just taking them off any time I see them. Hopefully she'll be a 100% female again.

 

[spring2012]

Damn I keep waiting to see if any vets come by and offer some advice!

 

[iSmokes]

Damn I keep waiting to see if any vets come by and offer some advice!

Me too!
Quick update: took off all the sacks (about 7 to 10 of them in random places on the plant. Usually an inch below budding sites. She's clear now, and all the sacks were very immature. I'm hoping they didn't even have pollen in them just yet.
Also, the plants responded well to the feeding. No nute burn other than the bottom 2 leaves. Seems to me that for a 2 gallon (FFOF), day 1 of week 5 is a good time to start feeding. Siberian took a hit from a little bit of nutes (again) so she's not ready yet. I'm waiting till day 1 of week 6 to try again.

 

[spring2012]

Your positive and that's a good thing!

 

[Blue Planet Nutrients]

Looks like nuts to me....bummer..

 

[iSmokes]

Looks like nuts to me....bummer..

You think I can get away with removing nuts as I see them? or should I just get rid of the hermi? lol

BTW, Blue Planet Nutrients, I was checking out 420fied's journal with the SOG grow with BPN, and I just love his results. I don't have anything bad to say about fox farm's nutes, but I'm definitely going for some BPN for a good regular SOG instead of this automatic business . Seems like people have nothing but good things to say about your products

 

[Blue Planet Nutrients]

Thanks man, I try I don't have anything bad to say about FF as well...not my style. But, I would love to have a chance to earn your business and help you grow some great buds!

 

[iSmokes]

I have a lot of updates to post in a few hours. I've been working for a couple hours on setting up the new tent. It arrived yesterday. I was so lucky it's unbelievable. I knew my old tent wasn't digging the weight I had on it. My exhaust is a bit too big for my setup. Just thought I'd go safe to kill the smell completely and invest in a good fan/scrubber combo. I had no idea how heavy these things can be. Now to the lucky part:
My tent got here yesterday and I LOVE it. It's much better than the other one. I kept it in the box planning to assemble and move the plants today. And at 4 am, my cross bars in the older tent broke, and one of my led's dropped from one side, it hit diva , she's ok though. My fan almost fell on my plants too. Luckily my other tent just arrived, and I just picked up the light and stuff, turned all lights off, of course. Gave them a little bit of a dark period to sleep some more. And then I assembled the tent first thing today, I'm almost done with everything now. The new setup is much better. It's the same everything, just different arrangement because this tent is a bit bigger. It's a little short of 3x5x7. I think it was like 2'7", 4'8", and then 6'10. +- (2") I'm not sure.
I'll be updating with pictures of the everything once I'm done.

 

[iSmokes]

My new tent:

Carbon filter on the inside now: (pulling air through it instead of pushing)

Light fixtures:

 

[iSmokes]

La Diva:

Flash Babylon Automatic:

Big Devil Automatic:

 

[iSmokes]

B. Lee Automatic:

Auto AK:

 

[iSmokes]

Blueberry: (the girls look a little droopy because they had a lot of sleep before these picture were taken)

Siberian:

Here you can see the nute burn on the bottom leaves of Blueberry and Diva:

 

[iSmokes]

The hermi situation is quite confusing. I saw some that went good with very few seeds because sacks were caught early on and there wasn't much there anyway (which I'm hoping is my case as well). And others ruined their whole clan because of that one that went hermi. Well, my plan is keeping Diva, and keeping a close eye on her. Ever since I clipped the pollen sacks off her, she's been completely fem. No new sacks developing or anything. Hoping she'll stay like this.