Greetings,
Problems have arose in the flower room. I've been building a new set of rooms for my grow operation and havent been paying enough attention to the state of my current home made grow tent. I think with all the building, hammering, drilling and such I may have rattled the seems apart on my tent and I have small light leaks.
Now, how did I notice this you ask; well let me tell you.
I was looking over my Sour diesel plants and noticed male flowers on two out of 3 plants and picked them all off.
It made me wonder what caused them and light leaks came to mind, so I started looking at the top of my tent and right out in the open are two split seams. I waited until lights went off and sure enough there were small light leaks.
I know stress can cause hermies so I started thinking about possible stress factors other then the light leaks and the only thing that comes to mind is that I put them into flower before they had showed pre flowers. I know many people say it shouldnt matter but according to Jorge Cervantes putting them into flower before pre-flowes can cause hermies.
So far the clones look fine and the 3rd plant hasnt shown any male pre-flowers. I hope that since I pulled off all the male pre flowers I should be okay as long as they dont return. I kind of feel like I let Dr Greenthumb and all of you down a bit by being too caught up in building the new room. So my apologies to all if these dont work out. My gut feeling is they will be ok and the clones should be fine also.
Any advice or comments are welcome.
Today is day 18 of flower, ive included pictures from day 15.