Started 50 seeds ended with 1 female plant

[GreenMindToo]

Admittedly, I’ve been out of the indoor game for several years. I’ve been growing outdoors for the last decade + , and have had no need for indoor. But situations have changed and I set up a sealed cO2 room, 10x8 with 2k of air cooled DE HPS lights, Using 15 gallon air pots and 900 ppm CO2 for veg. Growing in SubCools SuperSoil. After starting 5 packs and sorting through the retarded seedlings, pulling males and herms as thy showed up, I was left with 10 plants to grow. As time went on, all Hermied or turned out to be male.
What is going on??? Am I doing something wrong??? I feel like it’s a conspiracy! I’ve been growing for 25 years and never had this problem.

 

[Rurumo]

What seeds were these?

 

[Dreypa]

49/50 is a ridiclously high herm and male rate. Possible the females stress hermd? What was the source of the genetics?

 

[GreenMindToo]

What seeds were these?

I had a pack of Caps Waiting Game which pretty much all hermetic. A pack of Archive Seeds Toyz which was a lot of them were retarded, LuckyDogSeed Co Chem Fuego and a pack of The Potion from Archive. And some others

 

[GreenMindToo]

49/50 is a ridiclously high herm and male rate. Possible the females stress hermd? What was the source of the genetics?

I bough the packs from Seeds here now and Insane Seeds.

 

[GreenMindToo]

49/50 is a ridiclously high herm and male rate. Possible the females stress hermd? What was the source of the genetics?

I thought so too, the sealed room is perfect as far as I can tell. But the temps are 85 because I’m running the CO2. The growth was explosive fast

 

[Rurumo]

Wow, the fact that you had this happen with 4 different strains is too strange to be a coincidence. I would go back over every detail of your grow/room and see if you can find an issue that would cause it. It's so unlikely for different packs/breeders to turn out like this.

 

[bk78]

I had a pack of Caps Waiting Game which pretty much all hermetic. A pack of Archive Seeds Toyz which was a lot of them were retarded, LuckyDogSeed Co Chem Fuego and a pack of The Potion from Archive. And some others

Multiple packs, from multiple breeders sounds like it’s a you issue to me.

 

[bk78]

You must suck at growing then

Just like you do at life in general

 

[GreenMindToo]

Just like you do at life in general

 

[thumper60]

You must suck at growing then

Welcome ass hat LOL

 

[Cappuchino]

Plants do need oxygen to breath. If you room is sealed and you supplement only CO2 you suffocated your plants. They stressed out and hermed.

 

[mudballs]

You must suck at growing then

 

[GreenMindToo]

Plants do need oxygen to breath. If you room is sealed and you supplement only CO2 you suffocated your plants. They stressed out and hermed.

Blowing my mind right now. Noted

 

[MickFoster]

Grower error.

 

[Boreal Curing]

That happened to me once. I had an auto about 5 years ago that was 100% hermie. I planted it outdoor at 5 weeks and it flowered and pollinated itself right away. I tried it indoor a few more times before I flushed them. What a mess.

 

[Herb & Suds]

I question the interpretation of seedlings being “retarded”?
What does that even mean?
Unusual early formation or slow growth compared to males is no reason to cull
I never cull anything till I flip it
I think you tossed a bunch of girls based on male growth
Such a waste

 

[GreenMindToo]

I question the interpretation of seedlings being “retarded”?
What does that even mean?
Unusual early formation or slow growth compared to males is no reason to cull
I never cull anything till I flip it
I think you tossed a bunch of girls based on male growth
Such a waste

I’m thinking you might be right. I picked 10 males out of a 50 sprout

 

[Southernontariogrower]

If gassing in light and dark is all on you, fresh air for dark cycle. Propigate in basement highest co2 in house. Give co2 after plants start to grow but be careful bc roots need o2 when plant uptake co2, small fan blowing up from floor should help. How much co2 for seedlings? 400 ambient more than enough. In flower you pump up, big veg maybe 600 to 800ppm depending on size, retarded seedling were trying to compensate for co2 levels. Btw not trying to be dick. Just trying to help.

 

[Southernontariogrower]

Ive come up with a system, light umols, ppms and co2 ppms can all rise at an even level. As well as nutes. Co2 is my weak point