2nd and 3rd grows in Dirt what have i learned?

[chinacat443]

that plant was a hermie.
i had the same issues with 2 plants and didnt catch it in time.....
chances are since that pollen pod looked open, that the pollen has already circulated in your grow room, especially if you have fans..
all you can do is hope that the females didnt get pollinated and that they wont form seeds.
good news is that if they do, the seeds will be 80%-100% feminized.
bad news is that you dank nugs might have some seeds.
as per the temp recordings, what i did was to make sure that the thermometer.hydrometer was at the same level of the main colas to get a pretty accurate reading of the ambient temps and humididty of the area where most action is happening.
my particular therm. has a high low save feature. i check it during lights "on" and clear the previous days high/low, and log it every day.
im pretty sure that i have light leaks and i know that my temps fluctuate from 55* during lights out and 85* during lights on, so i attrubute that to my 2 hermies. cant figure out why the 2 that did the best turned hermie and the others didnt but........what ever.
as per seperating them, i just left them and i pull pollen pods everyday untill harvest now. i found them too late and im not interested in losing 2 very nice plants, ill just hash them.

[gottagrow4]

hey man i just had the same problem in my grow room.... only one of my girls had a couple of pollen sacs on her so all i did was rip them off and i try to keep an eye on them and give them a thorough once over everyday just to make sure no more pollen can get into the room...the pollen sac in your picture definitely looked opened so theres a good chance that it already pollinated your girls....

[deaner]

heres some pics, the ages arent real accurate. i will go by seniority,

top row left to right: cheese, speed queen, big bud
bottom: satori

[deaner]

here a smoke report on my "scraps" from my last grow:

the scraps and what fell through my taco shell steaming screen during trim, a couple ounces of a monster seed machine weed ground through screen, then its used the shake spin and settle technique so the bottom of the jar becomes hashier and hashier. now whats left, as ive contnued shaking and settling and spinning it, is a hostess ding dong sized cake of keif. the smell is intoxicating, i think a frst timer would get stoned just smelling it. i rolled the other stuff, a shit load of j's. i love the keif, one hit at a time, or mixed in with some bud, damn i like it.

cheese looks to be a winner, bushy and vigorous, so my trichs on her! smells like some crazy good aphgan. got 2 nice clones of her veggin, my private stock buds..
big bug doesnt produce leaves as much as bud, thats good, though this plant was tramatically broken off at the top, the bottom has recovered nicely and should be a decent producer of share it with friends bud.
satori has improved from looking funky, buds are small, but shes young and will be another 6-8 weeks.
still waiting for another to be ready to throw in there, once i clone the bubble i will give her a week to recover and throw her into flower.

[deaner]

ok heres some updates:

built veg cab, cfls, plants like my cfl selection, doin great.
cloned 8 cheese, 4 bubblegum, 4 bigbud ,threw the mom of the bubble clones into flower and a bigbud too, so 5 in there. in the pics its starting from the metal staked one which is the cheese going clockwise: cheese, speed queen, bigbud, bubblegum, satori. the closeup bud shots are the cheese, oh man im looking forward to smokin that! speed queen smells amazing, trychs on cheese got me excited. so i expect 2-3 weeks on the cheese, 3 on the queen, and at least a month on the satori. the other 2 are youngins, the bubble is a lady, the bigbud is unknown sex. i gotta go run somemore tests on the bubblegum.. :jointsmile:

[Shovelhandle]

Enjoying your log.

Shov

[deaner]

heres some more cheese pics, just cuz it looks and smells so nice, though i must admit the speed queen has a floral scent that has me erect when close. i will gets some pics of her next time, then the very interesting satori. i just found out my night temps are getting too low, like 62 when the lights came on, it get 85 in the light. slowly sealing the room, but i left the window open last night, so it shouldnt be so cold tommorow. my clones all look good so far. another lady will go into the flower room soon. dont know if i mentioned them, but theres a clone bubblegum and a bigbud unknown sex in there now too. my last big bud herm'd. gonna be adding some strains soon, but how many can i really expect to maintain? i will probably leave the bigbud for someone else to grow. rolled a mega j in transparent paper for a freind, fuck it im goin to smoke the thing right now. yay.

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Plants are looking nice as well

Now no more hermi's

[deaner]

wow the cheese is stinkin up the room, its gonna be so fun llghtin that first bowl. her and the speed queen are on the strictly h2o diet now, its the end of 7th week, or the 50th day (could be off a day or 2) so a week of plain water, then watch the trychs. should be ready just over 8 weeks, i hope. threw in a few more, another cheese, a white widow, and i forget the other one, big bud probably. 8 total, i think only 1 unknown sex. time to see if my clones turn out ok. the oldest is showing her hairs, gonna be bigger than what ive grown so far i think. so i should be in ganjaland fer a whle or so.

[deaner]

heres some pics of the cheese day 51 i think, breathe deep, can ya smell her? i dont know if i would want more than one or two of these ladies budding at a time, needless to say i cant wait to smell it from inside my lungs..