Pollinated Plant - Chop or Not?

Chop or Don't Chop

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Ghostfox

Ghostfox

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Nutrient deficiencies had it flowering slow, bud production was just starting to pick up and then I found a seed about two days ago. Since then have combed pretty much every node and bud of all three plants in the room and am not able to find any pollen sacks or bananas.

Only the one plant is getting seeds, and after I dug the . New calyxes developing at nodes have black tips, usually no hair pistil and a small white seed inside when I sliced a few from different areas of the plant open for examination. None of the other plants exhibit this. I've found three more super swollen hard calyxes with seeds on top buds today.

What should I do? I've had myself, my girlfriend, and my father all look at the plants and none of us can see any sacks or bananas. I really would like to let this grow out another week or two but I can't risk having it pollinate the rest of my crop. A seed here and there I wouldn't mind as I could easily pick it out but with the slow flowering and the size of the buds I'm worried the seed to bud ratio could get high pretty quick.

I will chop if I have to but I don't have a loop or any way to check trichomes and I'm worried the bud I get off it won't be good at all as it has mainly 50/50 white/orange pistils and most of the lower buds are predominantly white pistils. Here are some pics of the plant from yesterday as well as a picture of the seed pod I ripped open a few days ago.

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I can't really quarantine the plant as the only place I have where it wouldn't have light leaks during the night is in the tent it's currently in.
 
Ghostfox

Ghostfox

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All of these plants are from clone, although I got the clones from a friend of a guy at the headshop and they had some serious problems when I got them. There's more info on that in the first post of my grow thread, which is in my signature. I actually just found one seed on a lower branch of another plant so I don't think I'll be chopping. Super bummed though. Going to have to scrub the fuck out of the room after harvest and hope it's not super seedy or weak.
 
Alienwidow

Alienwidow

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How long have they been flowering? If they all went into flowering at the same time and theyre less than two and a half weeks from being done, then leave them alone. Seeded bud has just as much thc as non seeded. But it has seeds. And you can pick em out. Like how your doing now, and when you rip the big fan leaves off before you hang them, and when you manicure the dry buds. Youll find most of them and get a harvest. You chop it now and its trash, and in all likelihood the pollen has already gotten to all the plants so youll just be losing a plant and youll still have more seeded plants. If you find bananas pluck em, seeds pull em out, but id let them finnish. Next time get cuts from a better source or buy some fem seeds and do it for yourself.
 
Ghostfox

Ghostfox

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Alienwidow said:
How long have they been flowering? If they all went into flowering at the same time and theyre less than two and a half weeks from being done, then leave them alone. Seeded bud has just as much thc as non seeded. But it has seeds. And you can pick em out. Like how your doing now, and when you rip the big fan leaves off before you hang them, and when you manicure the dry buds. Youll find most of them and get a harvest. You chop it now and its trash, and in all likelihood the pollen has already gotten to all the plants so youll just be losing a plant and youll still have more seeded plants. If you find bananas pluck em, seeds pull em out, but id let them finnish. Next time get cuts from a better source or buy some fem seeds and do it for yourself.
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Today is day 48 flowering. I've actually only picked the one out of the PE to confirm it was actually a seed and that I wasn't just overmedicated. Found only three more on that one, and one on the GC so they'll all stay. The second I found one on the GC I knew I wasn't chopping. I've got plenty of fem seeds on the way for this next grow which should turn out pretty good as this next one won't be put together piece by piece throughout the grow, it'll have everything it needs right from the start.
 
Alienwidow

Alienwidow

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Ghostfox said:
Today is day 48 flowering. I've actually only picked the one out of the PE to confirm it was actually a seed and that I wasn't just overmedicated. Found only three more on that one, and one on the GC so they'll all stay. The second I found one on the GC I knew I wasn't chopping. I've got plenty of fem seeds on the way for this next grow which should turn out pretty good as this next one won't be put together piece by piece throughout the grow, it'll have everything it needs right from the start.
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48 days in? Fuck ya, leave em. Good thing you didnt go all psycho and kill stuff huh? I looked at your grow. Lets go talk over there.
 
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