Hello Folks, I have, in my opinion, an interesting grow devolving that I thought would be useful enough to post. It all started with a failed grow from last year. During this previous grow I made plenty of mistakes. My grow room was not light sealed, I over fed my plants, I also over watered them. Point is I fucked up a bunch. The plants ended up going hermaphrodite on me. They also produced some good smoke (just had a fair share of seeds). I held on to the seeds until I decided to plant them about a month ago(Jan 10). The original plants were clones of a Afghani Kush, so they are of good genetic quality. Fast Forward to Jan 24. The hermie seeds (I will call hermans from now on) are growing well. I am randomly given 5 AK-48 feminized seeds from a homey who is leaving the country. All he asked for in return was a little smoke upon his return in 3 months. On Jan 24 I started those seeds as well. Now I thought long and hard about throwing out the hermans but I decided note to. At least not quite yet. If I run into issues with crowding or they become problematic in any way I wont hesitate to throw them out. I am have a 2*6*6 foot grow closet. Here are some other details about my setup: 400W HPS with air-cooled glass hood. Temps- 70-80 during day 65-70 at night humidity- around 20-25% 18/6 light schedule Using 1/4 strength GH MaxiGrow Formula. (10-5-14) Soil mix is 4 parts SunGrow Pro Mix/1 part perilite/1 part peat moss Well thats pretty much it. I will continue to update. Feel free to comment/question/criticize.
I have heard two different things about seeds from hermied seeds #1. The seeds are feminized (due to the fact that no male genes are ever present during flowering) #2 the seeds are destined to hermi them selves.... so this will answer some questions for me
ReMonster, I have heard the same. I have found alot of info on the forums that would lend credit to either side. The debate is fairly split. That is why I am moving forward with this grow in order to get some good hard evidence for one side or the other. I'll keep ya posted.
Update 02/19 Plants have been flowering for about a week now. I have setup a stadium style grow with the smaller AK-48's on top and the bigger Hermans on the bottom. I have white pistils on the Hermans which indicate female. Got some pictures though too. Any thoughts on the photos and early indication of male/female plants would be much appreciated.
new pictures at 2weeks since 12/12 coming soon, everything is looking really good. All Herman seeds have came out female. I inspect them daily for signs of males parts. I have yet to find any. The AK-48s are small (15" now) but looking good. I gave all the plants their first full strength dose of bloom nutes. (Age Old Bloom, Budswel) Camera is currently on the fritz. I'll post new pics soon.
Picture update 26th day of flowering still no males but im keeping my fingers crosses. few of the plants got very dried out yesterday but are bouncing back since I watered them last nite.
It was my understanding that an unpolinized female plant that hermies on you creates femenized seeds. So if they are in a stress free environment they should all be females no?
that is great info for me i have a Purple Kush that hermied on me and pollinated a part of my Sweetdeep Grapefruit and i decided to grow a few out as well and i have two great looking and smelling girls around 3 weeks from harvest check out my thread in my sig to see the plants..Peace and nice grow rep to you..
well the girls are starting to stink pretty bad (28th day of 12/12) the buds are swelling and looking good. im still not convinced that these girls are not gonna hermie out on me. So im keeping a close eye on em, monitoring them everyday looking for pollen sacks. The ak-48s are looking really yummy (white hairs at least a 1/2 an inch long all over em) ill be back with some picture updates in a couple days. peace
Update 31st day of 12/12 cycle. Busted em out of for couple pics today and to examine them for signs of male parts. Nothing found. These are all pics of the hermans. The 4 hermans I have left look pretty nice. Still only feeding bloom nutes about once every 2 weeks. I am thinking about stepping it up just a tad. I also am thinking of adding molasses very soon. What do you guys think? THanks
Agreed, well done man. From what I have read I see no reason to not start applying molasses. Keep it up man! Peace Schism
I'll post some new pics tonite. Based upon these photos what do you guys think I'll yeild. 10 plants. 1/4 oz per plant? Hehe, we'll see, the whole thing could still hermie on me and I'd get nothing. Guess we'll see.
Hey still looking good i think they are well in the clear now..How long did you veg and did you top them..
Vegged for little over a month. Yes I did top them, but only once probably about 3 weeks in to veg. Here are some pics for today. I'm gonna try not to take them out of the room very much (they are kinda top heavy and im afraid i'll damage them) and its harder to get good pictures when they are in there. Here they are anyways. By the way this is day 37 of 12/12. Im thinking about maybe 3 weeks to a month left for these gals.
nice grow, i've also grown a few seeds from a hermie bag seed plant and all of them turned out nothing but 100% female