03.31.23 - Start of Week 10
Flower - Week 4 - Mid Bloom
Pollination - Week 2 (i.e. pollination started last week)
Fucking Shit. Pollen sacs. On feminized plants. Damnit. Damage Control ensuing. Here's the sitch:
03.31.23 - Last day of third week of flower, went to do the last major defoliation and saw a little green ball on a leaf of the strongest plant, the AK-47. So I investigated. Saw a few more. To make a long story short, the Girl Scout Cookies, the problematic one all along, which I'd usually paired with the AK-47 in the grow tent, had pollen sacs all over the bottoms of the buds, most were open and looked like they'd released all their pollen long ago, from which spread to the AK-47, and elsewhere in the tent. The other plants had sacs too, but less so. I did my best to scrape off and remove them over the next two days. Decided that some weed is better than none. I don't know if the GSC was stressed and pollinated the remaining three, which then made their own pollen sacs, or if all four plants produced their own pollen sacs at the same time, but I believe the GSC was the initiator.
04.02.23 - During my usual watering I noticed less of the usual dank smell and even sort of a flowery smell. I removed more pollen sacs from most of the plants, again, mostly from the AK-47 and the Girl Scout Cookies. The pistils on the GSC especially are turning brown and also on some of the rest; the buds are developing nicely on the rest but remain small on the GSC. One thing of note on the GSC is that I can see that the tops of the buds appear to have stopped developing pistils and look like they're focusing on seeds or possible pollen sacs. I've kept this plant in the corner of the tent out of the way of the fan (which I might regret) and have carefully removed all open pollen sacs and will keep an eye on it. Will likely take it out of the tent shortly depending on how it develops.
04.04.23 - Removed the Girl Scout Cookies from the tent - most lower buds are focused on seeds and / or pollen sacs. Going to keep this next to the tent out of harm's way under a weaker light just to see what happens to see if I can still get something out of it.
04.05.23 - Inspected all the others - removed a few more pollen sacs and confirmed a seed that I removed and cut open. Impossible to say how "pollinated" the remaining three plants are and if the pollinization has spread to the entire plant, or just a few of the buds, but am just going to have to do an inspect and maintain / nurture plan until harvest to see what I can get.