first grow, first post. Greetings from Istanbul

Hey all. Hope this message finds you all well. I bought 3 femmed jack flash seeds last time I was in Amsterdam. I deceided to plant one of them. I planted her on the 12th of Dec after gemination. I topped her once at the very early stage of vegging and twice more during her 2 months of vegging. I also lst'ed her in every possible way I started flowering her on the 10th of Feb. and decided to scrog her 5 days after. I did not see any sign of stress since she was already very short, wide and bushy. Now I'm in the 5th week of flowering. and I have 5 more to go according to the seed company. I counted over 60 tops and all sugar coated already. A few days ago I noticed a couple balls under one of the younger buds. Balls were also sugar coated. I took out the entire bud and fixed a very tiny crack where light possibly would be leaking into my cabin. No sign of hermies again. however, I did not see any bananas yet. I guess I'm aware that once you spot a hermie it's too late and I'm no longer expecting a sensimilla harvest. I also noticed some of the buds' pistils turned amber but new pistil growth is noticable too. I'm not very lucky with the nutes because it is not possible to find specific kinds in my city and didn't have the balls to order online in case of monitoring. So I use regular household plant nutes with equal amount of NPK and trace elements and also carob malossis each time I water. I made my own soilless mix with coco, perlite and peat. She loves it and she has a huge root growth all thick, white and covered with tiny hairs.

My cabin is 70cm 50 cm. Flowering under 400W HPS 2200K. Temp 65F-80F. Hum. 45-65. She smells like fresh ground coffee and bubble gum like fruity combined

Until this day I used my guts and I believed I did a good work. However I feel like it's time for some advice. I have a few quetions to ask.


-Should I expect my entire plant to turn hermie?
-Should I get rid of the smaller buds and help plant focus on the major ones?
-I never clipped the fan leaves to get more lights to the bottom, Instead I twisted them to another direction and they seem to be doing just fine. But there is too many fan leaves since my canopy is so tight. Should I clip some?

and any advice I could get.

Best Regards,
Me

Nice work! Just too bad about the balls. I generally don't cut anything off unless there's a reason, but some swear by removing fan leaves and trimming lowers. If it looks like the lower buds are developing along with the rest, though, you might as well leave them, I'd say. They smoke just as good as the big ones, and if not, you can use them to make a bit of has with your sugar leaves.

Cheers!

look on the positive side, more femmed ceeds

thanks fellas

so If a plant turns hermie because of a stress, does it mean that her seeds will also go hermie? would def keep the seeds if so. Do you guys know how to tell if a bud is pollenated?

Thank you guys for your kind answers.

I have removed male plants from my garden and still ended up with sensimillia. Although it was pre flower balls, don't know if that makes a difference or not you've got alot more pistils around than i did being your in full on flower. One of the strains I ordered is prone to have some balls show up (dog), and everyone else just plucks them off when they find'em. I feel like if u inspect your plants daily you have a chance of preventing pollination, this is just my opinion though. Good luck and they sure look nice, wonder why they hermied don't seem stressed to me, they look healthy.

Thanks a lot green217. There is only one plant actually This is my first grow so I must have done many things right. I have like 60 lighter sized or bit bigger tops and I can see them gaining weight slowly. also there seem to be bud growth downwards, filling the gap between the heads and the bottom popcorn like buds. Is that how it's supposed to be? . most of them have pretty thick stems also new ones still keep poppin from here and there. Do you guys have an idea how much roughly I would harvest from this baby? I'm almost entering week 6 and she is a jack flash.

Thank you all