Cooked autoflower week 4 - Purge, or leave?

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NullPointer500

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Hi,

I had a bit of an... Incident earlier today. It seems my thermostat controller for my space heater fell to the floor and heated my space tk 120f, resulting in 1 of 4 autos having completely wilted growth on about 1/4 of it, which is progressively blackening.
I know that growth is dead, my question is should I keep the remaining healthy growth?
I'm in week 4 and they aren't quite flowering yet, but I'm assuming being any day now it's too late and the chance of a hermie is too big of a risk?
Or would it be advised I keep it, but watch closely for any signs of male?

I don't really want to risk pollinating everything when they go into flower, but I'm not sure how likely it would be.
 
warble

warble

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Why not keep it going? Are you running out of room for the other three? Chop the dead stuff off of her. Does the strain have a herm tendancy? I wouldn't worry about it.
 
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NullPointer500

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warble said:
Why not keep it going? Are you running out of room for the other three? Chop the dead stuff off of her. Does the strain have a herm tendancy? I wouldn't worry about it.
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It's a fastbuds amnesia zkittlez, I haven't really seen any complaints of hermies in any diaries I've seen and fastbuds seem to have stable genetics, from what I know.

I'm just worried that they should be entering flower within the next week or so and with it being so close it won't have a lot of time to recover from the stress.
 
go go kid

go go kid

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i had a herm from fastbuds, purple bannana punch i think. only one branch, but thousands of seeds
need pix as budzbuddha has mentioned
 
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go go kid said:
i had a herm from fastbuds, purple bannana punch i think. only one branch, but thousands of seeds
need pix as budzbuddha has mentioned
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Hi,

Thanks for replying. See attached for pics.
It's pretty bad. I left the growth hoping if I highered humidity and watered they'd rehydrate but knew it was unlikely. Going to trim all of the dead growth, but as mentioned, pretty concerned with this bring so close to flower.
 

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NullPointer500

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Thank you all for your time in replying - I'll keep her, and keep an eye on her!
I was devastated it was amnesia zkittlez of all strains this happened to, so I'm definitely happy to hear there's not much to worry about.
Love a good haze, but I'm a sucker for zkittlez, too. Best of both worlds!
 
backwood_boss

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After looking again it kinda looks like you just got the lower of the plant and id cut that off anyway to make the plant grow them tops. Like was already said above you got a nice canopy going and that's where you want the energy. You just pick one hell of a stress technique haha. As far as hermin goes keep your eyes for them nanners and pluck em if they do show. I think you'll be fine. I'd definitely do a little tying down to open em up. Get more light to the inside
 
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backwood_boss said:
After looking again it kinda looks like you just got the lower of the plant and id cut that off anyway to make the plant grow them tops. Like was already said above you got a nice canopy going and that's where you want the energy. You just pick one hell of a stress technique haha. As far as hermin goes keep your eyes for them nanners and pluck em if they do show. I think you'll be fine. I'd definitely do a little tying down to open em up. Get more light to the inside
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Thanks man, appreciate it.
I was planning on thinning out the lower levels and tying new growth back this week funnily enough... Just without extreme hear as a means of removal haha.

I'll get the rest tied back tomorrow - I'm using the strip led modules with a DIY light so an even canopy is essential for even distribution considering the drop-off is quite large from 8" and above.
 
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Just thought I'd post an update out of gratitude of support received.

She didn't make it, continuous wilting, and browning of leaves through the following days. I guess the rhizo pot dried out completely and fried her roots given how low down the leaves were damaged.

On the plus side, though, it was possibly for the best. The banana purple punch has turned into an absolute monster, about 0.75m wide and 1.5m tall. She would have absolutely consumed the amnesia skittlez in a 1m2 space.
I've tried hunting through banana purple punch diaries to see if I can find any phenos matching this one, but I really can't find any like her.
She has no purple hues, pure green - insane height and width for an auto (in my newbie opinion), and smells like spicy mint, which doesn't match reports of what BPP smells like.

Gelato has a strong citruisy scent to her, with tight internode spacing and vigorous growth.

Auto Orange bud from Dutch passion took an insane amount of time to flower (about 8 weeks) but stretch since going into flower has been off the charts and my grow space is currently wall-to-wall.

Attached some pics of the banana purple punch, although I'm beginning to question whether I mixed the amnesia zkittlez and banana purple punch labels up because she looks pretty sativa and as mentioned, smells nothing like I'd have expected banana purple punch to smell (spicy minty scent).
Week 9 right now with 90% pure white pistils and every indication of another 2-3 weeks flower easy.

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