This just happened to me on my very first grow... I've been trying to find a post here to comment on it so that I didn't have to create another repeater thread .

For my first grow, I just did one female, cut some clones to veg, and then flowered her. I let her veg for way too long, and by the time she went into flower, her height was a problem. I bent her for a while, but she was outgrowing my room. The top bud ended up finished about 6" away from a 400W HPS. During the last few weeks, the top bud grew a weird "deformity". It looked like the cotyledon leaves that first come out from a seed, but they were raised up on a three inch stem.

I wasn't able to find any information on it at first, so I just harvested everything that was 18" or closer to the light. Since she was well over 2 meters, that wasn't a really big issue for me. I figured that the plant was using up resources making this weird deformity, so it was best to take it out.

A lot of the leaves and trichomes had been burnt a little bit, and I was worried that it wouldn't smoke well. I dried for a week and cured for a week, and I would say that it still smoked great. I'm an every day smoker, so if it gets me high for a few hours, we're doing great.

Anyways, I'm glad that I finally found someone that had this same issue. If you find that your buds are doing this, it is MOST DEFINITELY a heat stress issue! Like they say, your first grow is all about learning.... lesson learned!
Comatose Reviewed by Comatose on . "Elongating" buds? I don't know how else to describe this, but high up on some of my BB's it seems that stalks are growing out of the buds, with these thin "elongated" buds growing from the new stalks. I can't say I'm happy about this, the new growth is not dense at all and really weird. On a lot of these elongated portions, there are calyxes every few milimeters, but not the stacking up of calyxes that you'd want to see. At first I thought I might have a hermie problem, but the elongated buds have been here Rating: 5