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Hydrowannabe

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goodmorning RIU members. ok, right to the point. I have a plant 47 days into flower. On day 45, I was doing some more trimming, pruning etc and I guess i stepped on my timer and switched it to 24 hour setting. This morning I heard my ballast running when it shouldnt be and damnit, it was on 24 hours. So, I think there were a total of about two dark periods that got full light. When I discovered this this morning, I just decided the best move would be to turn the light off for today and start things on schedule tomorrow. I'm flowering under a 600 watt hps. I will provide pics of the plant the day I think I stepped on the timer. my questions are numerous. am I proceeding correctly with keeping the lights off today. I've never dealt with a hermied plant or a revegging plants, and I assume that is what will most likely happen. being that its just one flowering plant, even if it does hermie, I'm guessing it wouldnt be a huge deal. Do you have to sanitize the grow tent after a hermied crop to prevent pollen from effecting the next crop (I have a perpetual grow). this is new territory for me, so any help would be great! would the hermied plant (if thats what happens) affect my plants in veg right next to the tent? thanks for reading
 

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Sfrigon 1 said:
Wow looks amazing . Pollen can find its way everywhere man . After u are done spray the shit out of everything! Don't wanna screw the next crop . Sorry if I didn't answer better
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That's my largest concern....will it affect the next crop? Because I grow perpetually, there is not much time between crops and I dont want to be fighting hermies bc I couldn't let this plant go. I will chop this plant down and cut my losses if I have to. I would much rather do that than be doing all sorts of spraying and cleaning and losing sleep thinking there is pollen floating around ha. Thanks for replying, your answer/suggestion is great. Just need more of em
 
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Hydrowannabe said:
That's my largest concern....will it affect the next crop? Because I grow perpetually, there is not much time between crops and I dont want to be fighting hermies bc I couldn't let this plant go. I will chop this plant down and cut my losses if I have to. I would much rather do that than be doing all sorts of spraying and cleaning and losing sleep thinking there is pollen floating around ha. Thanks for replying, your answer/suggestion is great. Just need more of em
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It's a pain for sure . Wouldn't suggest it unless it's planned out before hand. Like I said if u are real worried spray everything and I mean everything , zippers, fan blades . Shit gets everywhere. Vaccum as well any carpet near grow ( which I highly recommend against) best of luck man!
 
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Sfrigon 1 said:
It's a pain for sure . Wouldn't suggest it unless it's planned out before hand. Like I said if u are real worried spray everything and I mean everything , zippers, fan blades . Shit gets everywhere. Vaccum as well any carpet near grow ( which I highly recommend against) best of luck man!
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fragileassassin

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I think a lot would agree that you shouldnt be doing any trimming that deep into flower. Thats probably stressing them out more than the day of light.
If you get them back on schedule, theyll be fine. I lost power on my first grow and the timers I had at the time were dumb and turned the lights on after the power loss. They got 36 hours of light and were fine in the end.

Dont do anything yet. IF something does herm, you will have plenty of time to notice and get it out of there before it pollinates. It is a process of weeks before the sacs burst open.
but pretty much what he said about the pollen. If you let it pollinate, you will need to DEEP clean every inch of your tent.
sometimes only a few sacs will pop up and you can just cut them out, but if you get a bunch, youre better off just cutting the plant down if you dont want to deal with it pollinating things.
 
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Thanks for the advice. I'll wait to see what happens I guess. But I trim late in flowering if it calls for it, especially if I know the strain is hardy. This strain can take trimming all through flower without a flinch, but I do it very selectively. That's the key. But I'm not familiar with messing with the light schedule like i just did.
 
OldMedUser

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Just fill a sprayer with water and dampen everything down as water screws up the pollen so it doesn't work anymore.

It would take a good week of 24 hour light to get the plants trying to revert to veg mode so a couple days won't do anything.

Looks like a nice crop on the way.

:peace:
 
Hydrowannabe

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OldMedUser said:
Just fill a sprayer with water and dampen everything down as water screws up the pollen so it doesn't work anymore.

It would take a good week of 24 hour light to get the plants trying to revert to veg mode so a couple days won't do anything.

Looks like a nice crop on the way.

:peace:
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That is very encouraging to hear. Thank you and thank you for the compliment.
 
Sfrigon 1

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OldMedUser said:
Just fill a sprayer with water and dampen everything down as water screws up the pollen so it doesn't work anymore.

It would take a good week of 24 hour light to get the plants trying to revert to veg mode so a couple days won't do anything.

Looks like a nice crop on the way.

:peace:
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This for sure , viability greatly diminishes when pollen meets water . Forty days is a safe number I have come up w after. As far as viability is concerned. That alone put my mind at ease when in ur position. So yeah worst case forty days
 
xtsho

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Hydrowannabe said:
I will chop this plant down and cut my losses if I have to.
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Oh come on. Calm down. Set the timer correctly and move on. Why would you chop that plant and not let it finish? This is just getting silly. By the time any highly improbable hermaphroditism could occur from a couple days of extra light those plants will be ready to harvest and no viable pollen will have even been produced.

This is just getting out of hand the way all this cannabis broscience has tainted the simple task of growing marijuana. People talking about chopping perfectly good plants weeks early for no reason. :wall::wall::wall:
 
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Haha well this is great news. Im glad to hear I was just over reacting. Awesome. I read online that 4 hours of light during a dark period could cause bananas so I was worried. And I had no clue how fast they pollinated. Thanks guys and/or gals
 
Sfrigon 1

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CanadianJim said:
It took 2 weeks of entirely random interruptions of the dark period for 4 nanners to show on one of my plants, and I was trying to get her to hermie. If you have fairly stable genetics she should be fine.
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Only hermy I've had was a new top of the line cross and I swear it was from the pics I was taking
 
Hydrowannabe

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Sfrigon 1 said:
Only hermy I've had was a new top of the line cross and I swear it was from the pics I was taking
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Thanks for the compliment and good news. And that's weird that you think you got a hermie from the flash I assume? I take a bunch of pics ever harvest and have never had hermies
 
Sfrigon 1

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Hydrowannabe said:
Thanks for the compliment and good news. And that's weird that you think you got a hermie from the flash I assume? I take a bunch of pics ever harvest and have never had hermies
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Yeah I took alot and I mean alot of pics . Nothing else had any issues . The only other thing I can think of is that I let it get severely dry ,I just didn't notice and I've read this can also cause nanners
 
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