Help Females w/Buds producing Pollen Pods!?

[Durameter]

Hi Everyone,

I've grown MJ plants plenty of times. I am now legal ( I live in Michigan and now have a Medical MJ card). I grow my plants inside under 8 different spectrum fluorescent lights. I germinated on November 12th and planted them on the 14th. I had 4 plants going. They grew (vegetative) for 8 weeks. 1 i left alone, 1 i pruned once and 1 i pruned 3 times so it has 8 Tops growing.

I then went to 12 on 12 off on January 2 2010. Within a week'ish I had identified 1 male and cut it down immediately!! So, these 3 females have been growing Outstanding ever since.

Today has been about 2 1/2 weeks of the Females Budding; and doing it very well I might add! They look like Mountain tops there are so many Trichomes on them!!! I'm completely impressed!!! Smells wonderful. These seeds came from stuff I've collected over the years, I wanted to start as soon as I got my card. I'll purchase some good seeds next time. Anyway...

Today I went down to do the usual (water, check for bugs, trim a little dead leaves here and there) you know... I was SHOCKED to see on all 3 plants a few Pollen Pods, two had even opened up and spilled pollen all over the leaves below them. WTF!?!?!?! I've never, ever seen this before. So I got out the vacuum and turned it on, in hand, while I trimmed off the pods and cleaned the leaves VERY CAREFULLY. What the hell did I do wrong? I've grown Hermaphrodites before, and these are NO Hermies, as you can see by the pictures.

Could someone please HELP ME and tell me what happened? Was it something I did? Will it keep happening? Can I stop it? I just don't understand at all!!!!

Thank you in advance for ANY help you guys can provide!,
Durameter

Durameter Reviewed by Durameter on 01-30-2010. Help Females w/Buds producing Pollen Pods!? Hi Everyone, I've grown MJ plants plenty of times. I am now legal ( I live in Michigan and now have a Medical MJ card). I grow my plants inside under 8 different spectrum fluorescent lights. I germinated on November 12th and planted them on the 14th. I had 4 plants going. They grew (vegetative) for 8 weeks. 1 i left alone, 1 i pruned once and 1 i pruned 3 times so it has 8 Tops growing. I then went to 12 on 12 off on January 2 2010. Within a week'ish I had identified 1 male and cut it Rating: 5

[Charbud]

You must have a light leak which has caused them to become hermies. Cut off the sacks anyway and try to find your light leak or another stressor that would have caused your plant to go hermie.

Good Luck
Charbud

[Durameter]

Hmm, I'm quite sure I don't have a light leak, as my 'grow room' is an area I built in the back of my storage room in the basement. The storage room has no windows and when I close the door behind me, complete darkness. The lights are on a timer too.

As for other stress issues...hmm, do you mean like; I missed watering one day and the next day I came down they were a little too dry (plants barely drooping), then I watered and they popped right back up. Stuff like that?

It's odd that all 3 of them would do this at 'exactly' the same time??? And you can see how far they've progressed as healthy females.

I guess I can't really think of anything else. I used Miracle-Gro soil, which states that after 8 weeks or so, you may use Miracle-Gro in a water solution e.g. one scoop per gallon. I used a little bit 2 weeks ago. I give my plants 2 cups of water (not actually a cup, just the cup I have that I'm using, like a tall drinking glass, it's sufficient). 2 weeks ago I put 1/2 of one cup's worth of my Miracle-Gro solution in that day's watering.

Since then, the plants started jamming!! I could see the growth increase.

Could that have caused it?

Thanks again for your input!:thumbsup:
Dura

[68camaro]

i find poor quality does have a deep impact! you wont know till you grow them out.
now during the growth cycle the plant gets stressed, wind water temp ect...
if the stress is strong enough it could cause this. if there are not to many site of pollen, be diligent and get rid of em. its tough if they are poped but its not impossible.
great luck to ya

[Faddenator]

Hmm, I'm quite sure I don't have a light leak, as my 'grow room' is an area I built in the back of my storage room in the basement. The storage room has no windows and when I close the door behind me, complete darkness. The lights are on a timer too.

How is your ventilation in this room? there needs to be a constant supply of fresh air and exhaust, without it the plants get stressed.

Today I went down to do the usual (water, check for bugs, trim a little dead leaves here and there) you know... I was SHOCKED to see on all 3 plants a few Pollen Pods, two had even opened up and spilled pollen all over the leaves below them. WTF!?!?!?!

Why are you getting dead leaves? Did you trim them using sharp, sterile scissors? This can also cause stress.

[Faddenator]

Oh yeah, and on the plus side, If you were VERY careful about removing that pollen, you'll only get a few seeds. So you'll have plenty of good smoke with a few beans to get you started on the next batch.

I just thought of another question: how the circulation in there??? I'm surprised the pollen is just sitting on the leaves like that... it suggests there's no wind in there.

Thats about all I can think of. Good luck :thumbsup:

[Balkey]

Hi Everyone,

I've grown MJ plants plenty of times. I am now legal ( I live in Michigan and now have a Medical MJ card). I grow my plants inside under 8 different spectrum fluorescent lights. I germinated on November 12th and planted them on the 14th. I had 4 plants going. They grew (vegetative) for 8 weeks. 1 i left alone, 1 i pruned once and 1 i pruned 3 times so it has 8 Tops growing.

I then went to 12 on 12 off on January 2 2010. Within a week'ish I had identified 1 male and cut it down immediately!! So, these 3 females have been growing Outstanding ever since.

Today has been about 2 1/2 weeks of the Females Budding; and doing it very well I might add! They look like Mountain tops there are so many Trichomes on them!!! I'm completely impressed!!! Smells wonderful. These seeds came from stuff I've collected over the years, I wanted to start as soon as I got my card. I'll purchase some good seeds next time. Anyway...

Today I went down to do the usual (water, check for bugs, trim a little dead leaves here and there) you know... I was SHOCKED to see on all 3 plants a few Pollen Pods, two had even opened up and spilled pollen all over the leaves below them. WTF!?!?!?! I've never, ever seen this before. So I got out the vacuum and turned it on, in hand, while I trimmed off the pods and cleaned the leaves VERY CAREFULLY. What the hell did I do wrong? I've grown Hermaphrodites before, and these are NO Hermies, as you can see by the pictures.

Could someone please HELP ME and tell me what happened? Was it something I did? Will it keep happening? Can I stop it? I just don't understand at all!!!!

Thank you in advance for ANY help you guys can provide!,
Durameter

That one with the sack on it is most def. a Herm. The fact that its already opened up and dropped its pollen suggests to me you need to pay more attention to your girls. Check them more often for hermie signs and look your girls up and down. If you have any ventilation in there (which you should) the pollen most likely has already pollinated those buds. If you don't have ventilation I'd still guess some of those buds will be pollinated.

What is the ph of the water your using? Do you check the ph everytime you water? They already mentioned light leaks for a cause but there are many other reasons. Look up Herm's and you might find out why.

It could just be the genetics. Who knows.

[Balkey]

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Also, you said you pruned one to have 8 tops. That's nice, but some strains handle topping/fiming/lsting/anything other than natural growth differently. You might just be growing a strain that dislikes and frowns upon any type of training.

[WashougalWonder]

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Also, you said you pruned one to have 8 tops. That's nice, but some strains handle topping/fiming/lsting/anything other than natural growth differently. You might just be growing a strain that dislikes and frowns upon any type of training.

Very true. I also question if the light is adequate. This is also known as intersexual plant. If you can get the pods off it may not grow more.

Buy some decent seeds, the plants have a propensity that is not positive for long term use.

[Durameter]

Hello again,

Really sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone (my Dad had some health issues that I had to attend to), as I don't like it when people post then don't reply myself.

Since I posted this I've seen only a couple more pollen pods come out. I was able to carefully cut them away before they opened.

I DO spend plenty of time with my girls, my wife bitches 'cause I spend so much time down there. These just happened to come out very quickly and they were underneath leaves that I couldn't see w/o holding them up. I am now inspecting more closely.

It has to be some kind of stress issue. Obviously these are (oops, were) females. There are Buds-o-plenty.

I do not have proper ventilation, another very good point! Like I said; I just got my medical card and kinda rushed this first batch into production.

Yes, I do most definitely plan on buying some good seeds. I just didn't want anything like this to happen to some plants that are/were good seeds that I spent money on. Kind of a trial run in some ways....

Obviously I need to make some adjustments.

Thank you so much everyone for replying and giving me good information to go on. I will correct these issues and hopefully not have anything like this happen again!
Cheers to all!!!
Dura