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growslut said:
I've had big problems with hermies from GPS. Don't think the tent suffers from the 3 problems listed above. Think my hermies have been heat and possibly wind related. I'm beginning to think my 3foot tall upright fan might be causing the hermie's. The fan blows directly on and through all the plants in the tent. Is that too much? Should I remove the upright fan and put in some smaller clip fans up top?

I do think that GPS strains can be prone to hermie. Last grow 2 Norstar strains and 2 hermie bag seed strains didn't hermie but multiple GPS strains did. Texas Butter, Evergreen, Sundance Kid, Full Moon Fever, Cali Cannon and Maverick have all hermied on me multiple grows. Gunslinger, Copper Chem, Cookies n Chem, Doc Holiday and Bandit Breath have been more stable in my tent.
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I probably should have added, that it had been my experience in the other post about "herms". Also,I am having good luck with GPS seeds germinating. Not so much with other breeders here lately.
The 3 commons, wasn't about hermis. Was about growing in general.
I hardly grow in a tent, but I've heard that people have issues in them so I kinda steer away in flower. I do have a tent for veg.
 
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growslut

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Bodyne said:
how was your nortstar strains? if you don't mind me askin
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I grew Breakout and Chelumbian D and really enjoyed both strains. Interesting terps and great flavor with both of them.

I will mention that Chelumbian D did get wpm, only one of 4 plants to ever get infected in the tents.

Currently growing Vintner's Moonshine and Merlin's Tonic and really excited for those
 
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NoWaistedSpace said:
I probably should have added, that it had been my experience in the other post about "herms". Also,I am having good luck with GPS seeds germinating. Not so much with other breeders here lately.
The 3 commons, wasn't about hermis. Was about growing in general.
I hardly grow in a tent, but I've heard that people have issues in them so I kinda steer away in flower. I do have a tent for veg.
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Yes, its definitely the tent environment that causes most hermie problems at my location.

Last month I had a Texas Butter that kept dropping balls so I moved it out of the tent to the backyard at week 4 of flower to see how it would finish outdoors. Even though it was much colder outdoors, it didn't develop any more balls until harvest

And I also agree, GPS are strong germinators.

What do folks think? Is an upright fan blowing directly on the plants too strong? Should I switch to some clip fans blowing above the canopy?
 
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AmericanGrower508 said:
I have had zero hermies from GU seeds. 90% of hermies are grower error like light leak, heat, environment.

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Sure, stress causes hermies and as a grower I do take some responsibility. But if it were 90% grower error, then 90% of that grower's plants should hermie. I used to think it was my fault--and some of it probably is--but I am beginning to lean more towards plants having the genetic tendency to herm.

I was particularly surprised that the hermie bag seeds (2 Nameless Genetics Mega Wellness and 2 Grease OG) didn't hermie. Well, 1 out of 4 did but 3/4 didn't. Those plants have the hermie trait, but most didn't hermie. So not the environment?

A Sundance Kid was trouble in the tent last grow and hermied 3 dozen ball sacks up and down the plant. Seeded everything. But I liked the smell and growth pattern of the plant, and wanted to try and see if I could fix the hermie trait. So I cloned it. The clone looked totally healthy and no herms. Then at day 23 of flower, I defoliated and trimmed the bottom 1/3 of the plant. Like normal. 4 days later the clone dropped balls. All the other plants got the same treatment and none hermied. If normal defoliation is enough to trigger a plant to hermie, it seems like the issue is genetic.

And the plants look completely healthy aside from the hermie's. No wilting, or bugs, or lockout problems. Most don't even have burnt tips on the leaves.

As far as grower responsibility that's why I am trying to figure out what exactly is causing the herms, and fix it. My best guess is the fan--I haven't really seen anyone else using an upright fan in a grow tent. The plants closer to the fan seem to herm harder. But with that said, Breakout from Norstar was next to the fan and it didn't herm at all. So genetic tendency to herm + minor stress = hermie city?
 
klx

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NoWaistedSpace said:
Can you tell us a little about the "Gunslinger" experience? Growth, flavors, etc.
Great job by the way!
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This pheno grew differently to the others I had. Very branchy with no central cola but lots of golf ball nuggs which are dense all the way down the branches. I have never grown starfighter but from pics I have seen I wanna say it leans that way.

Not the biggest yielder or loudest in the room but the smoke is top shelf - choc mint flavour and has a great high. My wife and I love it.
 
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