AK Bean Brains

GrassBurner said:
Ive got his PHK bx and NL1/Big Skunk a few weeks into flower right now. When did you notice your plants starting to herm? What kind of lights/medium do you use, or were these grown outdoors?
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My first run was under 1000 watt hps in hempy buckets of perlite. I had three tkln5haxe. One started popping bananas about 3 weeks in to flowering. The other two came later. Had the same experience running clones of them under 315 cmh.
 
Did I see earlier in this thread where you had planted some Darians Gap? If that was you, did you end up growing them out? I just popped 4 beans of DG
 
GrassBurner said:
Did I see earlier in this thread where you had planted some Darians Gap? If that was you, did you end up growing them out? I just popped 4 beans of DG
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I did start some of those, and ended up chopping everything. Wife and I had an episode about me growing so I whacked everything. That situation has been fixed, so I'm back in action.
 
Kndreyn said:
I've been skeptical for awhile now and have saved a lot of posts here and on instagram that contradict each other. I'm sure he's got some good stuff, but it's hard to not look at some of this without some skepticism. And with all the gungho userps singing the praises then up and disappear, i'm suspecting the Clintons might be involved somehow haha... i started some more TLNL5HAZE and we'll see how it goes. But everything from AKBB except Black Velvet i've ran so far has hermied on me, while all other breeder's gear is outstanding. I did give some Hawaiian catpiss v3 to a friend to run and he had no issues that i know of.
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My 8 Dopebeards are in the Jar now. I had 7 herm, one REAL bad. I've kept 3 two that were very nice other than a few nanners. I was going to dump the one that didn't herm because she stretched more than the rest and couldn't hold up her buds. However being the best producer over all and no nanners made me keep her at least for now. I'll admit to giving her a sampling already and will say that with just a 3 weeks dry time she is off to an impressive start. Buds are tight,hard, sticky and GREEZY!

I took the clones when they were already in flower. The female that looked the most like the sssc Durban dad would not come out of flower. She's been rooted for about 7 or 8 weeks now and still in what I'd call semi flower- not quite veg and very hairy. -Got The AXE

I had 3 males two got the axe because they showed sex a week or more before the first female. The third male got the axe for auto flowering and pollinating my gooey 13 females. Fucker!

I'm not real happy with the sexual stability of these at all. To be fair though, my no till beds where I grew out the females got pretty dry without me realizing it. These definitely don't do well in dryer soil and I suspect the sssc Durban may not be the most sexually stable. Just my guess but that seems to be the direction these problems are pointing.
 
Robar said:
My 8 Dopebeards are in the Jar now. I had 7 herm, one REAL bad. I've kept 3 two that were very nice other than a few nanners. I was going to dump the one that didn't herm because she stretched more than the rest and couldn't hold up her buds. However being the best producer over all and no nanners made me keep her at least for now. I'll admit to giving her a sampling already and will say that with just a 3 weeks dry time she is off to an impressive start. Buds are tight,hard, sticky and GREEZY!

I took the clones when they were already in flower. The female that looked the most like the sssc Durban dad would not come out of flower. She's been rooted for about 7 or 8 weeks now and still in what I'd call semi flower- not quite veg and very hairy. -Got The AXE

I had 3 males two got the axe because they showed sex a week or more before the first female. The third male got the axe for auto flowering and pollinating my gooey 13 females. Fucker!

I'm not real happy with the sexual stability of these at all. To be fair though, my no till beds where I grew out the females got pretty dry without me realizing it. These definitely don't do well in dryer soil and I suspect the sssc Durban may not be the most sexually stable. Just my guess but that seems to be the direction these problems are pointing.
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Thanks for the info, I have 5 Dope Beards going now, just seedlings but I'll keep my eye out.
 
mindriot said:
Thanks for the info, I have 5 Dope Beards going now, just seedlings but I'll keep my eye out.
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I didn't notice the nanners until I trimmed them. I noticed that the buds had been pollinated for sure but the nanners were at the very base of the buds and Invisible until trimming when I found them.
 
Robar said:
I didn't notice the nanners until I trimmed them. I noticed that the buds had been pollinated for sure but the nanners were at the very base of the buds and Invisible until trimming when I found them.
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I've been really thinking hard about what is going on with all the herms. I've never had these problems before. I started growing indoors around 1999 and grew for about 15 years using MH and HPS lights. Then I shut down for a few years just to take a break from it. When I started back up I bought CMH lights for the flower room and LED for the veg room. And I've been seeing lots of herms since starting back up. And something else I've noticed is a lot of the clones I'm taking are thin stems and single bladed leaves, kinda like the ones that start when you reveg a plant. Almost like they're wanting to auto flower. What kind of lights are you running Robar? I'm thinking of dragging the old ballasts back out and do a run with those to see if that solves my problem. Not everything I run herms, just the AKBB stuff, and a Dank Genetics Dank Commander. Very frustrating though.
 
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Kndreyn said:
I've been really thinking hard about what is going on with all the herms. I've never had these problems before. I started growing indoors around 1999 and grew for about 15 years using MH and HPS lights. Then I shut down for a few years just to take a break from it. When I started back up I bought CMH lights for the flower room and LED for the veg room. And I've been seeing lots of herms since starting back up. And something else I've noticed is a lot of the clones I'm taking are thin stems and single bladed leaves, kinda like the ones that start when you reveg a plant. Almost like they're wanting to auto flower. What kind of lights are you running Robar? I'm thinking of dragging the old ballasts back out and do a run with those to see if that solves my problem. Not everything I run herms, just the AKBB stuff, and a Dank Genetics Dank Commander. Very frustrating though.
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I'm running Old magnetic ballasts with Hortilux Super HPS. I don't have herm problems with everything. My black poison skunk cut never herms. EVER!, I ran some shoreline Sour D bx2, and some Chem bx and others that had zero issues. The Purple Dahlia from Duke and this Dope Beard however...

I'm actually trying to save up right now to convert over to CMH's All the other old Guys around here that run em swear by em.

*** As an added thought. Something that also comes to mind is I run a lot hotter soil mix that I used too. Maybe I need to dial back a bit in that direction
 
I use a mixture of HPS De and CMH
I've grown to completion 3 packs of Akbeanbrains strains.
TK/NL5HAZE, and tester packs of So/Rom and PHK Bx.
I'm not sure if everything is tested.
I suspect the So/Rom and PHK Bx were actually feminized, because I did not find a male in either pack.
The only herm I found was in the So/Rom.
1 female had a bad case of nanners, but I think they were sterile.
 
Robar said:
I'm running Old magnetic ballasts with Hortilux Super HPS. I don't have herm problems with everything. My black poison skunk cut never herms. EVER!, I ran some shoreline Sour D bx2, and some Chem bx and others that had zero issues. The Purple Dahlia from Duke and this Dope Beard however...

I'm actually trying to save up right now to convert over to CMH's All the other old Guys around here that run em swear by em.

*** As an added thought. Something that also comes to mind is I run a lot hotter soil mix that I used too. Maybe I need to dial back a bit in that direction
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Yeah I ran some Lucky Dog Guerilla Fume', Katsu Black Lime Bubba, Crickets and Cicadas Black Muddy River, Cannarado Birthday Pie and 707 OG and no herm problems with any of those. The only ones I've had herm on me is the AKBB TKLNL5Haze, Golden Showers and Black Velvet has a few male flowers that I only found while trimming. The TKNL5Haze and Golden Showers were loaded with bananas and immature seeds.
 
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