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Hi, this is my first grow. I have a few other pictures if you guys/girls need more. I found these the other morning, pulled a couple off and they were empty. Please let me know what you all think soon and if I need to chop them down now. They are 3 days short of 2 months into flowering. I figured March 6 to chop anyways.
Thanks for your help!
Hard to tell, but they are definitely swollen calyxs. You say you pulled a few off and they were empty, so chances are it's not seeded. Some strains calyxs swell more than others, you may just have one that swells a bunch. Usually the preflowers at the nodes swell before the rest, they were on the plant first. If you are at 2 months it's perfectly normal and that late in the game I wouldn't worry about too much anyways except for flushing.
My :twocents:
Was there a source of pollen in your garden? If not...then no, they aren't pollinated. (they look fine to me)
When an embryo (inside the calyx) is pollinated, it's pistils (the white hairs, which are tubes to catch and transport the pollen to the embryo) become an unnecessary energy expenditure, and will wither, change colors and die.
Solid seed formation happens within a couple/few days. When the calyx is crushed, you can feel the tiny seed. Keep in mind, the pistils will die if bumped hard, bent, folded, crushed. They can even die of old age. So just because a couple of pistils are dying-off, it's not the hard and fast sign of pollination.
Hmmm...I wonder if pistil crushing is an effective form of avoiding pollination. <kidding> Use care when feeling-up your ladies. :jointsmile:
Looks like a female plant to me, but I think that you are a few weeks away from harvest. You said that you were going to chop on Saturday, anyone else think that is too early?
There are no males in my closets, I purchased 3 OG kush clones from a dispensary and I have one clone off these plants and 2 clones one from a skunk and the other from a mothers finest. Both are females. I put them into 12/12 January 5 and they showed signs of flowering on the 13th of January. The shop said it was a 7 week strain. Here are some more pictures let me know what you think. Sorry they aren't the best quality. I just went and bought a radio shack microscope so ill try to posy pics of the tricomes later today. Started flushing with RO water on the 27th.
Thanks!
I checked the tricomes at 60x. Almost all are cloudy with a few ambers. I think I will wait another week and see where they are at. That will give them a full 2 weeks of flushing. Ill be posting harvest pics in my grow log.