Hermies and Autoflowering plants in grow room

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Pedro Pereira

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I have 12 Autoflowering plants in the end of the cycle and 18 regular plants that became hermaphrodites...
They are now in the 5th week of flowering and i spoted some seeds on the regulars and also on the autos... what should i do... kill em all or harvest the autos and let the hermies go until the end?
I wanted to introduce some more plants once the autos were done. Will they be polinated as well if i insert them in a couple of weeks?
Does the polen stays viable that long?
 
Hawg Wild

Hawg Wild

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If they're done throwing pollen, you can just finish them out in the same space, but you really want to make sure they aren't throwing new nanners and the existing ones are spent. Are all 18 from the same stock? If not, you may want to reevaluate everything you're doing to figure out what you're doing to turn all your plants hermie.
 
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Pedro Pereira

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Hawg Wild said:
If they're done throwing pollen, you can just finish them out in the same space, but you really want to make sure they aren't throwing new nanners and the existing ones are spent. Are all 18 from the same stock? If not, you may want to reevaluate everything you're doing to figure out what you're doing to turn all your plants hermie.
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that is the question, for how long will they throw pollen?
 
Hawg Wild

Hawg Wild

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Pedro Pereira said:
that is the question, for how long will they throw pollen?
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No telling, man. Hermies are weird. You just need to get in there and look and then inspect them frequently for new ones. Usually, once seeds are developing, they'll stop and go into full nurturing mode. You can even finish a heavily seeded plant in your veg tent and it will stay in flower.
 
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Pedro Pereira

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Hawg Wild said:
No telling, man. Hermies are weird. You just need to get in there and look and then inspect them frequently for new ones. Usually, once seeds are developing, they'll stop and go into full nurturing mode. You can even finish a heavily seeded plant in your veg tent and it will stay in flower.
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I guess I better wait for them to finish before introducing new clones for flowering then...
 
Hawg Wild

Hawg Wild

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Pedro Pereira said:
I guess I better wait for them to finish before introducing new clones for flowering then...
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If they're all seeded up and you're just going to process the bud or something, you could throw them on a veg cycle to finish and start some new stuff or autos vegging in there with them. They're not going to get pollinated without forming pistils first.
 
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Pedro Pereira

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Hawg Wild said:
If they're all seeded up and you're just going to process the bud or something, you could throw them on a veg cycle to finish and start some new stuff or autos vegging in there with them. They're not going to get pollinated without forming pistils first.
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that is an option to take into consideration...
 
2Hearts

2Hearts

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I would just finish them in normal 12/12, others can wait, i thought they were all at weej five flower?

A plant will reveg at any stage given the time chance and resources, there is no gurantee just common sense.

Hawg Wild said:
Not going to lose any harvest. Seeded up plants don't revert to veg. I know several breeders who routinely finish their seed moms in the veg room.
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Hawg Wild

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2Hearts said:
I would just finish them in normal 12/12, others can wait, i thought they were all at weej five flower?

A plant will reveg at any stage given the time chance and resources, there is no gurantee just common sense.
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That's simply wrong. A pollinated plant will not revert to veg.
 
randallb

randallb

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Finish them.........then start new. Killing anything now doesn't change it being seeded. Let them finish normally for potency, yeah seeds suck but the weed can still be good.

It sucks, but you'll get em next round..........:)
 
Hawg Wild

Hawg Wild

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MIght as well leave it. The flowers aren't really going to develop big time like sensi buds anyway. That stuff looks like it's got a long way to go. Depending how much area it's taking up and energy you're spending growing it, I might consider scrapping it now that I've seen the pics. How big is the fattest top? What is the strain? Where did you source the seeds? Also, are they seeded all over and all plants hermied or are you talking about a few spots here and there or one or two that threw pollen sacs?
 
2Hearts

2Hearts

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Hawg Wild said:
That's simply wrong. A pollinated plant will not revert to veg.
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It shouldnt be hard to find a thread where a grower revegged a plant that had a seed in its bud.

My comment was an open one about resources and time and such - a heavily seeded plant wont have the same as a lightly seeded plant.

Some take it to literally here, to be honest i was just worried if you took the regs and went over the flowering light cycle you might get some problems after three weeks. Its not somthing i would chance or do putting 12/12 plants into 24/0 at any stage for that length of time.
 
Hawg Wild

Hawg Wild

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2Hearts said:
It shouldnt be hard to find a thread where a grower revegged a plant that had a seed in its bud.

My comment was an open one about resources and time and such - a heavily seeded plant wont have the same as a lightly seeded plant.

Some take it to literally here, to be honest i was just worried if you took the regs and went over the flowering light cycle you might get some problems after three weeks. Its not somthing i would chance or do putting 12/12 plants into 24/0 at any stage for that length of time.
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"A seed" is not a pollinated plant. I get the impression from the OP that the entire crop is seeded, in which case throwing the whole room into a veg cycle would have no effect whatsoever on either the quality or the yield of the pollinated plants, neither of which will be all that great regardless. Judging from what little is visible in the pics, assuming that seeds are forming in all those calyxes, I wouldn't waste any time finishing them. If there are some decent buds on there somewhere already, I wouldn't put everything on hold just to finish them on 12/12 because of grower lore if I could use the space left in the room to veg the next round in the meantime..
 
2Hearts

2Hearts

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Your splitting small things now - if the plant has the resources it will do both, if i pollinate a pistil and throw back to veg.... Well you should know the rest, threads show preflower pollination under 24/0 and the seed grow to maturity whilst the plant carried on vegging.

Your taking extremes and applying to everything.


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"A seed" is not a pollinated plant. I get the impression from the OP that the entire crop is seeded, in which case throwing the whole room into a veg cycle would have no effect whatsoever on either the quality or the yield of the pollinated plants, neither of which will be all that great regardless. Judging from what little is visible in the pics, assuming that seeds are forming in all those calyxes, I wouldn't waste any time finishing them. If there are some decent buds on there somewhere already, I wouldn't put everything on hold just to finish them on 12/12 because of grower lore if I could use the space left in the room to veg the next round in the meantime..
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