Hello everyone.
My plant (i have only one) has been on a 12 / 12 cycle for two and a half weeks now and i noticed that on the 3rd node down from the top, there's one white pistil poking out from one side - and a ball on the other. i left it for a while to see how it developed - thought a pistil might burst out of it in the end - but it's been there over a week, just getting bigger, and today i noticed a new little one coming up next to it.
The rest of the plant is now showing pistils from almost every node - there's just the one place where the balls are growing.
i want to do something about this before it matures and opens, spilling pollen all over the place. So my question is this. If i sliced these things off as close to the stem as possible would it a) stop them from growing from there again, and b) stress the plant further? i know it really doesn't need the hassle of a castration during it's flowering period but i don't want to ruin the harvest.
i have only a shitty phone-camera and all the pictures i try to take of the plant are blurred. i hope i've described the problem well enough that people know what i'm talking about.
Any useful comments would be much appreciated!
I'll try again to get some focused pictures tomorrow while the lights are on.
My plant (i have only one) has been on a 12 / 12 cycle for two and a half weeks now and i noticed that on the 3rd node down from the top, there's one white pistil poking out from one side - and a ball on the other. i left it for a while to see how it developed - thought a pistil might burst out of it in the end - but it's been there over a week, just getting bigger, and today i noticed a new little one coming up next to it.
The rest of the plant is now showing pistils from almost every node - there's just the one place where the balls are growing.
i want to do something about this before it matures and opens, spilling pollen all over the place. So my question is this. If i sliced these things off as close to the stem as possible would it a) stop them from growing from there again, and b) stress the plant further? i know it really doesn't need the hassle of a castration during it's flowering period but i don't want to ruin the harvest.
i have only a shitty phone-camera and all the pictures i try to take of the plant are blurred. i hope i've described the problem well enough that people know what i'm talking about.
Any useful comments would be much appreciated!
I'll try again to get some focused pictures tomorrow while the lights are on.
