Early pollination?! NEED INPUT!

Brendan2007

Member
Hey all,

I have a few plants going in my flower room, three of which have been in 12/12 for just about two weeks. Pre flowers are showing and they are all female. Upon inspection today I noticed a few of the tips of the pistils were orange!!!! I know this is not good. I wanted to see what some of the more experienced growers have to say.

is this normal? The fans are kind of high in the room and i have heard that can cause pistils to turn. Im worried about a potential Hermie/pollination. I do have two other plants on week 4 of flower and I checked them all over and they do have a few random orange pistils here and there but the rest is white. Ive attached a few pics of the current buds i have flowering as well as the pistils in question. Id appreciate any input!
 

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xtsho

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What are you feeding them? Too much bloom boosters will cause pistils to turn orange early. If there isn't a male putting out pollen it's not possible the plants were pollinated.
 

Brendan2007

Member
I have ultra lemon haze and berry Ryder. The funny thing is that these plants were labeled as autos. They did not show any preflowers for almost 50 days, so I flipped them.

Dodgey- I often wonder if the strain plays a factor myself. I'm curious on the life cycle of a pistil. Do they sometimes get orange mid flower as new ones are stacking on top? Maybe that's what it is. I'm not entirely sure but I appreciate that feedback.

Xtsho- I am running advanced nutrients coco a+b, with herculean harvest and terpinator as a pk supplement. Ppms are right around 1100 and the plants arent showing a sign of burn, but does that even matter? this is also good info, I appreciate it. Thank you to all of you I will monitor and post more pics if I see any changes
 

TheGreatSouthern

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looks fine to me.
the earliest pistils turn orange and wilt long before the latest pistils have even formed, especially on strains with elongated flowering times. if it's the first time you've run them just keep charging and see how it goes. leaves look good, no sign of nute burn and that's where it would show up first.
 

TheGreatSouthern

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Ah yeah in one pic you can see the edges of one of the fan leaves might have a bit of nute burn and the tips of those pistils, it might be a bit early for them to be curling up like that but it's hardly noticeable. give them a flush with PH 6 water only, wait 2 more days then feed again and dial your PPM down by 20% to be on the safe side. They're early days in flower there so they don't feed heavily for a few more weeks. nothing to worry about at this stage.
 

Chip Green

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No ballsacks anywhere that you've seen right? Fk it, run em, whats the worst that can happen, a few beans?
 
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