Ouh boy,
the last 10 days have been crazy for the growth of all my plants! I've switched to flowering around a week ago while most of the plants in hydro were around 90-95cm tall!!! They grow so fast, I'm starting to have worries that after the flowering stretch, most of them will be too tall.
I've already pulled up the lights a week ago and yesterday I had to practically attach them to the top so that's the highest I can mount them so I cross my fingers that the plants won't be that much bigger or I'll have to burn some top colas.
I also defoliated the shit out of all the plants because the humidity went up to 70% it's now down to 60%, and the airflow is much better. I've lollipoped them and removed some of the biggest fan leaves which are bigger than my palm which is crazy and the plants in hydro look super healthy too :)
I was worried that the heavy defoliation would fuck my plants up, and I do have some experience in fucking up plants after too heavy defoliations but after checking how healthy and big they look I took the chance. To minimize the risk, I've also put a foliar spray from Green Buzz Nutrients to use.
I've checked today and they show no sign of slowing down the flowering stretch. All the plants show already their female parts which is great.
Let's hope for another great week and hopefully I'll see some nug development this week.
Have a great weed week guys!
XOXO
Cremo
Hello. Good to see we are in the same contest. That blacklisted left me a very negative message on my diary too. Nice to know why he's so angry. Good luck on your grow. Chuck.
@Cremo, Hello. This is how I see it. Some of the original land race strains had some hermaphroditism in them. The good breeders will put their selected females through hard stress tests to make sure they don't go hermie. And if they do the breeders will try to find the best females. I think SSSC is a good breeder and would have stressed their females so I would look to the environmental conditions. Is there a small bright light on during the dark period or a light leak near the plant, is there a big swing between daytime temps and nighttime temps. I've read that nutrient and ph imbalances will play a role in making some strain going hermie. So, I can't nail it down what might have done this, as you see it could be a number of things. I had 1 plant out of 6 go hermie in the tent of my Nova OG by Anesia Seeds (I'm not sure if they do stress tests) about 6 months ago. Why didn't the others turn? What started that one turning I still don't know. I'll put it down to the original land race strains getting some original genetics into that 1 seed. It could a few factures that combine to start it. All I can do is be diligent and try to do the right thing with the plants. Experience and learning will help. Also, if you don't know a lot of the breeders will buy their seeds from big companies in Spain that do nothing but make seeds from the clones they were sent, from the breeders and then sell them back to the breeders. There are only a hand full of breeders that make their own seeds now days. OK, Have Fun and Good Luck. Chuck.
@Chucky324, hi there :) nice hearing from you, Sir. Normally I'd ignore it but I've just checked my tent and unfortunately it turned out to be a hermit :/ I'm wondering what might've caused it...