Dark Period Disruption

[Logan Burke]

Hello everyone, so due to a clumsy mistake I made brushing up against one of my timers, for the past two days approximately 6 or 7 hours into lights off, a couple of my cmh lights have turned on for about 30mins to 1 hour. It's only happened for the past 2, maybe 3 days at the maximum. The strain is White Rhino from Nirvana. What would you all say my chances of pulling hermies are, at this point? Will 2 days of a 1 hour disruption or less increase chances of hermi'ing significantly, with a stable indica strain like White Rhino? Thank you guys for reading, and any and all opinions are very much so appreciated! And apologies if this has been asked before, I just can't find any info about how stable White Rhino from Nirvana is. Should I do a 24hr lights off cycle to help reinduce those hormones that make'em flower?

 

[CanadianJim]

I wouldn't do a 24 hour lights off, that would just be more photoperiod stress. I would just make sure the timers are set right from here on in. I haven't had issues with hermies before, and when I was thinking of trying to stress one of my girls to herm using photoperiod stress all I could find were dire warnings about it happening, and strategies to keep it from happening which all boiled down to "cover all the lights dumbass". I still don't have any solid info on how much it would take, if it will even happen.
I'd just keep a really close eye on the plants for the next week or two.

 

[Kythunder]

Just resume a normal schedule,and you will probably be fine,just keep an eye on them.

 

[Logan Burke]

Alright that's what I've done, thanks guys!

 

[Logan Burke]

Does anyone have any experience in plants revegging? I've definitely got some revegging going on, it hasn't gotten any worse since fixing the timer issue, but I've read all of these posts in other forums of people saying that once a plant revegs during flower that it's basically ruined...anyone had any experience with this? I'm sure that, to some degree, it is based on the severity of the reveg. I'm just very uneasy and unsure, as long as these plants can rebound from this with at least an alright harvest I don't mind the grow taking 3 or 4 more weeks than it originally would have had the dark periods never been disturbed. But if I need to get a new batch of seeds going, I will.
Thanks and much appreciation everyone.

 

[Logan Burke]

Pics

 

[Renfro]

I have never done it but if you are desperate for some smoke off of them you can just wait and assume the flowering cycle has started over. Not sure what you will get in the end.

 

[Logan Burke]

While I'm not quite desperate, I'm still quite needing of it. But, from everything I've been able to scour off of the internet, the consensus is pretty much split between it really screwing with THC production once back in flowering and reducing yields, and the other half of opinions I've read being that as long as the reveg isn't severe, which this isn't at all, that the plants should be able to resume flowering just fine with the addition of 1-3 weeks of flowering, just depending. I just keep finding varying info lol...guess I'm gonna let them go a bit more and see what happens.

 

[Khyber420]

While I'm not quite desperate, I'm still quite needing of it. But, from everything I've been able to scour off of the internet, the consensus is pretty much split between it really screwing with THC production once back in flowering and reducing yields, and the other half of opinions I've read being that as long as the reveg isn't severe, which this isn't at all, that the plants should be able to resume flowering just fine with the addition of 1-3 weeks of flowering, just depending. I just keep finding varying info lol...guess I'm gonna let them go a bit more and see what happens.

I'm re-vegging these for the third time. Here is the timeline:

1. Started from seeds on a window sill in March
2. Wasnt more than 12 hours daylight at that time so they started flowering
3. Put then in the tent under 18/6, they revegged
4. Flipped to flower around May and harvested around July. Nice sized, dense buds.
5. I liked both strains and wanted clones so I fertilized and dropped in gree house
6. They revegged, getting big now and will probably start flowering again as days are getting shorter

 

[Logan Burke]

Woah that is really cool man! I've never had it happen until now which was by accident of course lol. I'm hoping that because it is a pretty small amount of growth of leaves ontop of the buds that they can snap out of it quickly. Do you think that I should remove the messed up veggy type leaves off of the buds, or just leave them and try to let flowering continue?

 

[hellmutt bones]

The reveg would be bad. If it was once to 3-4 times maybe you could get away with no ill effects but if it was like 2-3 weeks straight then it could stunt or mutate. Keep her on a 12.12 and see what happens.

 

[Logan Burke]

Ok Hellmutt thank you for the input!! This is what I was hoping would be the case, as it wasn't some long drawn out process. They started throwing the reveg leaves a week or two ago, so I checked my timer and found the mistake I'd made. This dark period interruption happened for somewhere between 2 and 5 days, but I really don't think it was for 5 days, that's just the longest it could've happened from the last time I checked my timer. This grow has had a lot of drawbacks, my plants started stalling due to me overfertilizing...so, I flushed for 3 days and started giving nutes again (very lightly, of course). I was looking forward to a recovery and bud swelling to recontinue, but then the reveg started and soon after I realized my blunder. Fingers crossed that these babies aren't stunted permanently, I totally get that the harvest won't be near as good even in the best case, but I really need to pull at least half of what I stood to harvest before all my screw ups. I'll get some good overall pics at lights on.

 

[Logan Burke]

By far one of the most symptomatic buds...most of them aren't this severe. Can't help but want to cut it off? Should I?

 

[Khyber420]

By far one of the most symptomatic buds...most of them aren't this severe. Can't help but want to cut it off? Should I?

Flip em to 12/12, don't cut. Hopefully no herms, there's no point doing anything else because in the time it takes you could start a new crop. Here is what I harvested from the plant above, after it reveg, it smokes fine! My vote is to finish the grow and learn from the mistake and perfect your next cycle.

 

[Logan Burke]

I couldn't agree more buddy, I feel like there would be a real waste of potential by cutting now, even if they don't swell up a whole bunch more ya know. I'm guessing I should just leave the new leaf/stem growth ontop of the buds, instead of cutting them off? Oh and beautiful bud you grew there man, looks fantastic! Fingers crossed that mine kick back into flowering mode and begin swelling again in the next few days to come.

 

[Khyber420]

I couldn't agree more buddy, I feel like there would be a real waste of potential by cutting now, even if they don't swell up a whole bunch more ya know. I'm guessing I should just leave the new leaf/stem growth ontop of the buds, instead of cutting them off? Oh and beautiful bud you grew there man, looks fantastic! Fingers crossed that mine kick back into flowering mode and begin swelling again in the next few days to come.

Yeah i'd leave everything since you're already flipped, it should flower up top too. I fertilized pretty heavily and supplemented my 20-20-20 with additional P-K, I also let them flower for longer than usual. Not sure if that was just the normal flower time for the strains (bagseed) but it felt like 2 weeks extra.

 

[Logan Burke]

Yeah I'm sure it will prolong flowering, definitely in my situation where it doesn't fully transition out of flower and into reveg, just sort of took a few steps towards veg then stopped. I guess I won't cut off the new stem and leaf growth then, my lights can't go up much further so I really hope the new leaf/stem growth doesn't cause buds much closer to my lights than they already are.

 

[Khyber420]

Yeah I'm sure it will prolong flowering, definitely in my situation where it doesn't fully transition out of flower and into reveg, just sort of took a few steps towards veg then stopped. I guess I won't cut off the new stem and leaf growth then, my lights can't go up much further so I really hope the new leaf/stem growth doesn't cause buds much closer to my lights than they already are.

Ah crap. Can you SCROG to push them down?

 

[Logan Burke]

Well, funnily enough I actually ScROGged this grow. While the tops are too far above the screen to safely push the tops under the screen due to the branches being stiff, I can tie those growing tips that sprouted out of some of the budsites down with garden wire. I'll just try to make them grow sideways, should they decide to produce a bud seperate from the prexisting bud underneath it.
Good news fellas...while I could be wrong, I am pretty sure I noticed the budsites that were unaffected by the reveg (no new veg leaves growing out of'em) have begun to swell a little bit again! I'm guessing that the affected buds will just take a little longer to get back to swelling than the ones that weren't affected. I'll post back soon for a 100% sure answer on if the plants recover and/or hermie!