I really don't know what to do. The plant has looked noticeably unhealthy most of its life. And like half its bottom leaves look burned for whatever reason. Its not nute burn cause its in organic soil (unless the organic fertilizer is causing it), and the ph is tested every week as long as being at a stable temperature (rarely it fluctuates at all except for night obviously when it can go down to 65-70).
The plant gets treated EXACTLY the same as my female and looks like shit. But the female is BEAUTIFUL. She has much sharper teeth on her leaves, her veins are more pronounced, and her leaves are finally starting to darken. She was topped 1 week before flowering and is doing great right now. I keep 6 cfls on her and 6 on the male (5-2700k and 1-6500k for each).
The sexless plant I DID make a huge mistake with (get to it in a second). But the condition of its leaves looked like that ever since it was a baby. Also, I water my plants once every 3 days and the soil is always dry before I water again. So I don't think either one of the plants ever really got overwatered. But I DID top the plant I'm having problems with 1 week AFTER I started flowering. I know that was terribly stupid, but its my first grow and at the time I was telling myself "these things are weeds, they're suppose to be hardy, and the plants getting too big too quick".
But the female has just always looked much healthier, and has always got the same attention, minus bad timing with the topping. Could the topping after flowering have fucked the plant up permanently?
And my main question is, if topping is whats causing it not to sex right, does that mean the plant might be genetically stronger than you guys think is? Cause that would mean its not genetics that caused it, but me... right? I'm wondering what the chances are if this plant turns hermie, that I can cut the male parts off and actually get decent smoke from it?
I only have 2 plants now, I was expecting more than 1 female from my three. But I did clone the female twice its just gonna take another 45 days of vegging to get them up to par in size.
I'm in a bit of a tight situation because if I kill this plant thats half of my harvest. And it was really starting to branch out and show decent colas. But even since it was young its leaves have always looked like utter shit.
If I cut the sexless plant, can I still get a decent yield from the female alone? If I can get at least a half oz from her I'd cut the other plant now. I can harvest the female in like 6 more weeks, and by the time I run out of her stock I'm hoping her 2 clones will be ready to harvest.
I was just really looking forward to getting at least an oz on my first grow.
I don't know what to do. Looking at the plants general condition logically tells me its inferior, but what does "inferior" mean? Is it likely it'll produce low grade bud? What are the chances of a stressed hermie producing mid grades? (I know the bag weed it came from was great smoke)
I know its a personal choice but its hard being my first grow. I'm gonna grow out the clones whether its there or not, but its like 2 months of effort for **2** plants now right down the drain. A higher than average electric bill for nothing. And I'm just gonna have that 1 female now for my first harvest which sucks.
What would YOU guys do? I'm serious.
I also found the macro button on my camera, and tried to take closer pictures. I took a pic of the female next to the unsexed plant so you can see the difference. But its still hard to see in the picture because you can see some burnt tips on the female. But when you look close at the leaves the females are very smooth and veiny, very rigid and strong. The other plants leaves all looks like they're dying, and I never did anything to stress it besides the topping issue 1 week into flowering.
I could really use some help. Its gonna suck to kill another plant (first was male) but it would suck more to harvest it and not get high off it, when that space could have been used for the clones which are from an obviously healthy female.
