Well, I've calmed down some and will clarify and comment so to be clear........
I went in the room early this evening to re-stake everything, as I often do around this time in flowering. I put 3 stakes in around each pot and wrap some hemp string up and down to support the branches. Since I pinched all these Dogs, there are quite a few branches on each plant. While doing this, I was able to really get a good view of each plant, up and down the stem and each branch. While I first thought there was only 1 plant that was heavily seeded out of the 9 left in the room, I saw a number (at least 4) of other plants also with drying pistols and expanding seed pods- mainly on one side of the small room. The other side shows some seeding, but not unreasonably bad. I did a lot of work in this room and was upset (OK, pissed off!) when I posted earlier as I'm sure you could tell.
Tonight, at 11PM, when I turned the lights out- I went in with my high powered flashlight to get a white-light view- which is much better to view your plants with- and I've had a chance to calm down some. First off, even with this seed issue- the resin production is crazy good on most of the plants..... seeded and not seeded, at day 29 in flowering. Yield will suffer mightily, as the plants put their effort into seed production and not bud production- but I believe the finished quality will be outstanding so I'm going to let them finish up and go from there. I am still hoping to find a mother that is a pure female with no male tendencies (bananas) to breed with- time will tell.
Lastly, some may disagree, but seeds like this shouldn't be on the market. They are not stable, and the male tendencies on the plants are much worse than the strain description lends you to expect. Pods continue to be produced deep into flowering, which was unexpected. No reasonable human could be expected to be more diligent than I was in picking the male pods off- jeeze, there were only 9 plants- well, 12 to begin with but 3 were solid males. A reasonable breeder test grow or grows (sorry, DST) would have shown this and I'm suspecting this was not thoroughly done. I understand that sometimes these traits are recessive in parent selection and often hit or miss. Then again, it's rather obvious, even at this point, that the strain is a stinky, resin monster and worth having in everyone's grow room.
So, I've decided to keep the room going and let them finish. I'll continue to post, the good AND THE BAD, so others are also aware of the challenges they will face with this feminized version. And somehow, I'll manage to smoke all the bud up when it's finished despite my trials and tribulations......... with a smile on my face and a boner in my pants.
I went in the room early this evening to re-stake everything, as I often do around this time in flowering. I put 3 stakes in around each pot and wrap some hemp string up and down to support the branches. Since I pinched all these Dogs, there are quite a few branches on each plant. While doing this, I was able to really get a good view of each plant, up and down the stem and each branch. While I first thought there was only 1 plant that was heavily seeded out of the 9 left in the room, I saw a number (at least 4) of other plants also with drying pistols and expanding seed pods- mainly on one side of the small room. The other side shows some seeding, but not unreasonably bad. I did a lot of work in this room and was upset (OK, pissed off!) when I posted earlier as I'm sure you could tell.
Tonight, at 11PM, when I turned the lights out- I went in with my high powered flashlight to get a white-light view- which is much better to view your plants with- and I've had a chance to calm down some. First off, even with this seed issue- the resin production is crazy good on most of the plants..... seeded and not seeded, at day 29 in flowering. Yield will suffer mightily, as the plants put their effort into seed production and not bud production- but I believe the finished quality will be outstanding so I'm going to let them finish up and go from there. I am still hoping to find a mother that is a pure female with no male tendencies (bananas) to breed with- time will tell.
Lastly, some may disagree, but seeds like this shouldn't be on the market. They are not stable, and the male tendencies on the plants are much worse than the strain description lends you to expect. Pods continue to be produced deep into flowering, which was unexpected. No reasonable human could be expected to be more diligent than I was in picking the male pods off- jeeze, there were only 9 plants- well, 12 to begin with but 3 were solid males. A reasonable breeder test grow or grows (sorry, DST) would have shown this and I'm suspecting this was not thoroughly done. I understand that sometimes these traits are recessive in parent selection and often hit or miss. Then again, it's rather obvious, even at this point, that the strain is a stinky, resin monster and worth having in everyone's grow room.
So, I've decided to keep the room going and let them finish. I'll continue to post, the good AND THE BAD, so others are also aware of the challenges they will face with this feminized version. And somehow, I'll manage to smoke all the bud up when it's finished despite my trials and tribulations......... with a smile on my face and a boner in my pants.
