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Hy wutangbud, welcome aboard RUI!
Can you post some pictures, up close of some colas, buds?
Are the seeds from the following breeders:
Skywalker - Dutch Passion
Kushberry - DNA
Bubblegummer - ? X-Line
Bluemoonshine - Dutch Passion
I've run several of Dutch Passion's lines with other strains in my garden and the DP strains would hermie while the other strains stay female. Good reputation but I've had trouble with them. Blue Moonshine is a slow grower and small producer, small hard buds. A tough strain to grow the first time around, tends to hermieing with or without stress.
This is a Bubblegum by Serious Seeds, probably the same or very similar genetics to your Bubblegummer. Bubblegum is an In Breed Line (IBL) which means - for us - that it is very sexually stable and often the plants from seed will be so similar they look like clones. Feminized seeds have a much greater chance of resembling the desired mother than do regular seeds, another reason to be interested in them.
Sometimes I like to see what abuse I can subject a plant to and see if it will die, recover from the stress, or just grow through. I grew this Bubblegum clone: in a 2 litre pop bottle; no air, stagnant water; changed water and nutrients only once during flower. Slow growth, little yield, long flowering time - but sweet buds and not a sign of hermieing. If the genetics are good you'll be fine.
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Are/were most of the seeds in the Blue Moonshine and Skywalker?
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To check for bananas:
- Either take your plants out of the garden and put under a white light, or a light with a high color rendering index. The HPS has a very low Color Rendering Index (CRI) and bananas are hard to see - the yellow light washes the green of the leaves and buds and there's less contrast with the bananas. I use a white flashlight at lights out to check.
- Go over the plant slow. Pick one bud or cola and try to look into it, make the buds - then the individual calyx - grow in your minds eye until you can see each individual piece of the bud. The bananas should grow between the actual buds themselves, it's very rare to get a true hermie that hangs clumps of bananas.
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- Get a magnifying glass and go over the same bud again and again until you could take it apart and put it back together in your mind - if there are bananas there you will see them, then you'll never be able to look at a bud again without knowing if it's a hermie or not. Mature bananas will be yellow, young green. You'll only see half of the banana growing out of the bud.
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Check for light leaks
Have you sat in your flower room for a half hour with the lights out? It takes time for the eyes to adjust to darkness, what seemed pitch black when the lights are turned out is often so light that you can see your hand moving around after 15 minutes. I spend a lot of time in my garden in the dark with a volcano bag, thinken 'n stuff.
I've found that it's genetics that cause most hermieing, but it's best to isolate your garden from stress.
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"is the grow going to be ruined?"
Not at all.
The seeded bud will be less potent than it would have been sinsemilla but it will still be good. Don't sweat it. Pick out all of the seeds AFTER you harvest, don't bother the buds now except to
pick out the visible bananas with tweezers.
Pick only the bananas visible, do not dig into the bud - the damage will further reduce yield & potency, and prolong flower. Toss the bananas, the pollen is worse than useless for you.
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Post some pics if you can, as close up and still as possible. Take your plants away from the HPS for the pictures so we can pick out the bananas by color.
DON'T WORRY!
Easy to fix.
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