Pre-mature cultivation is a kill joy

[Stinkypotman]

This is my first post, have been lurking around for several months. As a new grower, have not had enough knowledge to offer any constructive input but this morning I finally snapped a few photos of some problems I have been having.

Today is exactly 8 weeks of flowering (day one started when placed in 12-12). This is my second grow, started with 3 White Widow seeds and 3 Northern Lights seeds (don't know which strain, got the seeds for a less reliable seed bank). I ended up with 2 NL females and 1 WW female. Ironically it was looking like the WW was going to be harvested first, the trichomes are nice in cloudy and most the hairs have turned orange. However, I noticed about 1 week ago that one of the NL plants started having male flowers. First I ignored the problem but did more research last night and realized that the bananas can produce pollen. This morning I check the girl and could easily get pollen from one of the bananas so she got the chop. At first tried to remove the bananas but on closer examination, there were too many to remove and several immature ones forming. As you can see I had to harvest at least 2 weeks early but could not risk contaminating the grow room. I have several other plants that are only in week 2 of flowering.

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[nibec]

unfortunate ... your plants in week 2 should be fine as long as there is no remaining pollen in there.

and unfortunatly, it looks developed enough that you are going to have a mass of seeds, and depending on your flush time, they might taste pretty nasty...

play with the seeds maybe if your not too worried about hermies.. if you dont want hermies anywhere near your rooms, which most people dont, then toss the seeds.

if your bud tastes horrible, or gives you a headache, either make some butter, oil, hash, something, dont throw it out, there is still plenty of thc all over it!

 

[Stinkypotman]

Thanks for the response. I harvested the girl after I noticed the pollen and the buds have dried enough to trial smoking which is fairly good considering she was chopped prematurely. I have not noticed any seeds yet. I harvested a white widow plant about 5 days after chopping this one down. The white widow is still drying but doubtful there are any seeds. Will see what happens!

 

[Vampire]

ouch on the pollen! I doubt the ones flowering for a mere 2 weeks would catch any pollen. if it's in the room however, I'd def wash the room down, vacuum the walls,etc and as long as there are no buds yet, I'd be misting down the leaves to be sure.