"Seed Like" Formations on my Flowering Female Plants

[PhatJay]

Slightly off topic but.....

I'm six weeks and three days into flowering from bag seed in soil with CFLs in a 4 by 4 by 3 growing cabinet.

I'm hoping to harvest within the next week or so

It's hard to say 100% without seeing some more pics of your plant/plants but I think you are being a bit optimistic with your harvest time. If you harvest at 7 weeks you are going to lose out on a lot of bud. Between 9 and 11 weeks (depending on strain) will generally improve the size and quality of your harvest.

PhatJay Reviewed by PhatJay on 08-09-2010. "Seed Like" Formations on my Flowering Female Plants As I am fairly new to growing, I'll try and do this the right way: I'm six weeks and three days into flowering from bag seed in soil with CFLs in a 4 by 4 by 3 growing cabinet. Just recently I spotted a couple seed-like formations growing on the underside of the buds of my female plants. I picked a couple off and it appears as though there is only fleshy plant material inside and no actual seed. On most of these growths, there is either a single or a couple strands of hair protruding Rating: 5

[bigtopsfinn]

Slightly off topic but.....

It's hard to say 100% without seeing some more pics of your plant/plants but I think you are being a bit optimistic with your harvest time. If you harvest at 7 weeks you are going to lose out on a lot of bud. Between 9 and 11 weeks (depending on strain) will generally improve the size and quality of your harvest.

ostgood:

Hope you have a 30x microscope and are checking the trichs. Yield and potency will suffer if chopped too early.

[Weezard]

I'm over six weeks into flowering though and these are new growths, so if they are pre flowers then why are they growing in now?

So, call them post-flowers, or now-flowers, or funny li'l boogers.
They are a common item. Something you find around the house n garden.

BTF is right, (he usually is).
No pick 'em. They are a useful indicator.
When they swell up like seed pods, it's time to start checking the trichomes for color.

If it makes you feel mo' betta, I chopped da very first female I evah grew 'cause I thought they were "boy-bits"
Then, I looked it up.

Aloha,
Weezard

[ironman27]

Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of 9 to 11 weeks flowering, 8 is probably a maximum for me at this point. None of the trichs have turned amber yet, so I'm still waiting for that.

On a side note, how long before harvest is a good time to prune off the fan leaves?