hey everyone! ๐ This week has been fairly good to say the least - there was a big stretch for those first couple weeks but it seems to have leveled off now and bud mass has really started building early. I have some doubts if my plants may be hermied ๐ฌ as I found a crown that looks a little odd. I don't see any sort of "balls" per say and any sort of ball currently is oval with a white filament coming out - so that tells me female. But finding this bottom crown makes me wonder (is it a cultivar specific thing? Genetics not stable?). I know SFV OG makes big buds as it is, crossing that with RPK makes them even bigger - the buds at 3 weeks already look pretty "big" in comparison to other cultivars I've grown. Any comments greatly appreciated as I'm a little dumbfounded with this. I could just be overly concerned or paranoid - if it ended up being the case of a hermie, this would only account for a learning experience and not a loss..I'd probably continue right until harvest anyways โ. Thanks for stopping by everyone and please reach out if you've seen pre-flowers like this before (specifically pictures labelled "hermie?")
@CannaScuzzyB, You can thank CSI Humboldt for making S1 TK seeds.. I know eventually he'll do an S2 and then probably a BX1 and probably a BX2.. that guy is amazing. He'll help it flourish. Anyway.. looking forward to see how your grow turns out!
@StunFlower, Thanks buddy - hope all is well! They've really bushed out and got the tent all cleaned up. New carbon filter fan since the other one broke, had to move the babies to fill each side out (more so get them away from one another touching as they're bushy) and put the trellis netting up and will move down incrementally each week. ๐
Beautiful Christmas trees you've got there ๐ A tasty harvest is a great way to ring in the new year! All the best to you and your girls during the holiday season, buddy! ๐๐จ
@StunFlower, The mass is real - never witnessed this sort of mass so early on in flower. I got another couple weeks to go but amazed at the progress. Couple of the colas are already the thickness of my forearm - so I can just imagine the end product. Definitely! - come to the salad bar ma man ๐
Keep a close eye on the strange lady, as long as you are not seeing any balls or bananas, you should be ok. Could be genetics, difficult to say. To me they look like females, not much out of the ordinary. Also not seeing the crown thing you are referring to, can you mark it on a picture what you mean? But its looking good for week 3 indeed! Keep it up!
@CannaScuzzyB, Thank you for the thorough explanation , I saw the pictures but I did not see anything that strange. By now either balls with pollen or bananas with pollen should have appeared if it were a hermie, trying to fertilize the producing flowers. Seeds will grow in your flowers usually, not where you pick the bud. I think its a normal calyx from a female plant if you ask me. Curious to see how they have grown! Good luck!
@Corks_Crew, hey man! - yea it's definitely strange (the pics are marked with the name "hermie?!") - but i've seen keeping a close eye on things for sure. I'm not seeing any sort of bananas and in terms of balls, I only see the calyx's that have the white hairs coming out of em. There is an oval shaped ball that i've been pushing against (no seed in there for sure) but I've seen that sort of calyx on other grows post harvest. You know when you pick a bud off the stem and there's that little nodule that looks like a nipple? They are definitely getting hairy and will be posting new week picture soon. They've definitely gained quite the mass and the stretch seems to have slowed down. I've had to tie some of the branches to the net as I'm noticing by the day the weight is real. Overall, I would expect to see bananas by now considering were just at the tail end of it growing in flowering (30-35 days roughly) - then its full on reproduction. Getting stinky as well and already getting frosty๐๐