Few male pollen sacks in female plants! help!

shoegazer88

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Hey guys, new here howdy ho

So I vegged 4 strains (Sensi's Northern Lights #5 x Haze & Jack Flash #5, Dutch Passion Mazar and ACE China Yunnan), all feminized, for 30 days on 18/6, and then flipped to 12/12. Did some FIM on all of them a week before switching. 2 weeks later the plants were entering flowering smoothly, with female calyxes and pistils showing all over, when I noticed one pollen sack on one of the Mazars. I chopped it off immediately, thought it was bad genetics or something. 2 days later I found one again on the China Yunnan and then I realized that something went wrong. I removed only the male sack. Yesterday (Day 48 total) I found one on the Jack Flash which I also removed. Nothing on the Northern Lights x Haze yet.

Now something obviously went wrong. I had a power shortage for a few hours in the beginning but it didn't interrupt the schedule very much. Maybe there was a light leak? Some light escaped from some tiny holes from the closet on some parts but it was due to the intense 600W HPS. I entered inside during daytime and it was totally dark. Anyway I lightproof-ed it again. Soil, temps etc are optimal.

What I wanted to ask is that there doesn't seem to be intense hermaphroditism so what's the deal? The female to male calyxes ratio is at the time 99/1. Has anyone encountered that before? I can't afford to start the grow again so I'm gonna go with it. Will they turn out full hermie at some point or maybe some few male sacks here and there?

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Too far to turn back now? You are in a weird situation...
1. Spend the money on energy and another month or so of time and end up with herb that has seeds. The seeds are not good for further use. Eventually, the pollen sacks will become so numerous you won't be able to keep up with them and some will get to all the plants... You will end up with herb that will work though it won't be as potent as sinsemilla...
2. Chop and start over... if your situation requires sinsemilla only...

Your call... Better luck next time.
 
I'd chop it down, check for light leaks, and start over with regular seeds.
Pick a stable+dank female from the reg's and make it a mother-plant.

Dynasty/Bodhi/Gooey/Topdawg/the list goes on...
 
Thanks for the input guys, much appreciated

Wow never heard of those breeders, I'm definitely gonna check them out. Guess I'm loosing my touch :D

Thing is I have trouble getting seeds where I am. I have to wait like a month to get them from the time I make the delivery so might as well wait and see what happens. What baffles me though is that I've seen hermies and they had much more pollen sacks than these. And I can't think of anything that could have stressed them except the FIM and possible minor light leaks. But nothing major, I went for an old school grow for this reason. Stable and strong strains. Anyways, thankkss again, other opinions/suggestions are welcome too!
 
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