Alright boys, it's update time. Sorry for being so lazy lately.
Things were looking kinda grim for our baby for a while there. Running low on space in the grow box, not being able to afford better lights and nutrients, and heat problems made it seem like things were heading in a bad direction. On top of that I was beginning to think that it was a male plant. I saw some little ballish things growing on some of the nodes and
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But I didn't let it get to me. I remembered reading many times here on rollitup that the best thing for your plant is time and care. So we gave it more of both. Last night when I took these pictures I didn't notice anything obviously different about the plant. But, as I was putting it back into it's box I noticed something awesome towards the top of the plant. Pistils! PISTILS!!! MY GOD, THE THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WERE BALLS HAVE SPROUTED TWO THIN HAIRS OUT OF THEM! Needless to say, it made us very happy.
Now, on to what the plants lookin' like. You'll notice in the attached images that some of the leaves are looking kinda crispy at the tips. This has happened due to the lack of space in our current grow box. It's been hard to move things around in there and keep it as safe as possible for our girl. Many of the leaves have been yellowing. As the lower leaves turn completely yellow and start to die we have been removing them from the plant. I know that the yellowing is normal for marijuana plants that are later in flowering so it never scared me. You'll also notice that I have pulled some of the off-shoots (I have no clue what to call those stems) farther outward away from the plant. I did this so that they would not be condensed in the middle of the plant and would recieve more light farther out.
You probably won't be able to see the pistils in any of the images. I didn't even notice them until I was putting the plant away
after taking these images.
Anyway, I've been thinking that our plant should be farther along in the budding process by now, but I am not going to complain. You know why? Because now I know it's actually a female and my patience has been restored.