Two weeks in and SEEDS!

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Notyourpuppet

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I'm currently two weeks into flowering and all plants have seeds. I just got this shit down and have 9 beautiful, high yielding plants which are trash I assume. The history is that my last crop was my first I and didn't have my temps under control and cool temps stressed out one of my strains and it self pollinated itself. Not knowing about pollen at the time, it got all over and I didn't clean it up good enough before the new plants went in I guess. This really hurts, I vegged for 6 weeks, scrogged 3 of the plants , not one yellow leaf, just packed my 4x5 closet full and there are tons of tops, and I am very proud of the techniques I learned on this site and then I get kicked in the balls!. Sorry to ramble but need to vent. So any suggestions on removing the plants and making sure it doesn't happen again. I wiped down the room with bleach and water but I would say not very well not knowing how sensitive the plants are to pollen.
 
Cereal box

Cereal box

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I'd just let them finish. It will hurt your yield but it's better than not yielding anything. Also, bleach is not necessary. Plain water will make any pollen non viable. Spray down everything with water and wipe it up. Should do the trick. From my understanding, it only takes one grain of viable pollen to pollinate a plant. So make sure you water and wipe everything down. But like I said I would just continue with your grow since you've already put so much time in. Up to you. But make sure you get that room clean to avoid this in the future. Good luck!
 
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Notyourpuppet

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Cereal box said:
I'd just let them finish. It will hurt your yield but it's better than not yielding anything. Also, bleach is not necessary. Plain water will make any pollen non viable. Spray down everything with water and wipe it up. Should do the trick. From my understanding, it only takes one grain of viable pollen to pollinate a plant. So make sure you water and wipe everything down. But like I said I would just continue with your grow since you've already put so much time in. Up to you. But make sure you get that room clean to avoid this in the future. Good luck!
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Thanks, I'll think about finishing. I took 4 cuttings of my 4 strains before flower and they are 3-4 weeks out for flower so I may go that route though. One thing though, I may have pollinated my veg tent too since I had no clue about the pollen and was trimming a pollinated plant near my veg tent with a fan blowing in, So maybe the plants in the veg tent were pollinated and then put into flower. So the 4 cuttings could be possibly pollinated, right?. I might just clean up and purchase new clones at the market.
 
Cereal box

Cereal box

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Yes, it is possible that they've been pollinated. Check for swollen calyxes to see if they've been pollinated. There is a chance the pollen didn't reach the pistils. Hopefully that's the case. Good luck man.
 
skunkd0c

skunkd0c

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how can they have seeds at 2 weeks this is way too early for regular plants they just do not grow/mature that quick
do you mean 2 weeks after buds have grown ?
i grew out a hermi once it was an s2 seed its growth rate was amazing
it had seeds at around 2-3 weeks of 12/12 but this was a full blown hermi with many male and female flowers from the start
 
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Notyourpuppet

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skunkd0c said:
how can they have seeds at 2 weeks this is way too early for regular plants they just do not grow/mature that quick
do you mean 2 weeks after buds have grown ?
i grew out a hermi once it was an s2 seed its growth rate was amazing
it had seeds at around 2-3 weeks of 12/12 but this was a full blown hermi with many male and female flowers from the start
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2 weeks into flower, I don't know what a male plant looks like exactly though, being that I only have experience in clones. To me they all had elongated calyxes with pistils. I don't see any what I hear of like balls. I do see some more rounded calyxes at the bottom of one of my 3 week old cuttings, but I see tiny pistils coming out. At this point I'll probably grow out the seeded flowering plants, but I need to find out if I have any pollinated cuttings before the hit the flowering room, they are in a tent connected to the flowering closet with ducting so the fan sucks out both "rooms". This set-up may be a cause of pollination I suppose, I had a power outage and there could have been a backdraft into the veg tent from the flowering closet. What I really need is to learn about pollination, like can a plant self pollinate if a cutting is having a rough time in a cloner? Does anyone know of a good write up on pollination with pics of male calyxes and such?.
 
hbbum

hbbum

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Just post a couple close up pics.. Also try to google "identifying sex of cannabis plants" you will get lots of pics and videos
 
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