First time auto grow....disaster

I'm not sure what's going on here but I'll post pics of a branch I cut at the end of the post for your feedback.
I tried growing autos for the first time and I completely f'd them up. Nute burns early, ph problems, lockout, heat issues. Just a clusterFk of a grow. I was going to chop them at week 4 but didn't need the space so I thought I'd see if I could salvage something.
Anyway, tonight I pulled them out and gave them a final flush. Two of the three plants have long buds, fluffy, and all yellow/crispy fan leaves and even some sugar leaves are crisped up.
But one plant has the same as the other BUT also has weird balls everywhere. Its hard to explain so im posting the pics:

Any idea what's going on with this plant. Did it herm and go to seed? Is it just a f'd up plant that was stressed to the max? Or is it just super loose buds so looks weird to me?
The trichs look fine...and hardly any amber yet so not like it went way past harvest window.



Any feedback is welcome. I've grown photos so I have some experience with those. But autos are new to me. And it shows haha

EDIT TO ADD**
These plants are week 9.5 from breaking the soil.
FB Girl Scout Cookies
Under 450w HPS (sometimes turned down to 300 if tent started heating up)
MegaCrop and Massive for PK boost.

didn't know autos could hermie, i dunno, maybe the stress yeah

The first pic in the top left-hand corner looks like a male flower pod. It also looks like nanners just below the pod. Are you growing in a cold basement since it's purple? Autos often create wispy buds. I'm going through something similar since I was given autos by mistake. The pheno varients are ridiculous. I starting to think they just sent me a random pick n mix. I don't know what to tell you.

Owsley1975 said:

The first pic in the top left-hand corner looks like a male flower pod. It also looks like nanners just below the pod. Are you growing in a cold basement since it's purple? Autos often create wispy buds. I'm going through something similar since I was given autos by mistake. The pheno varients are ridiculous. I starting to think they just sent me a random pick n mix. I don't know what to tell you.

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Yeah I'm in tents in the basement. So it cools off a bit in there at night. Never had any issues with reg or fem photo seeds. But these autos just weren't loving me at all. I have a couple left...I might just pop em and let em grow outside for the summer.

Yeah, grow em outside. For some reason beyond me, Ruderalis should grow great in low temperatures with temp variations. It doesn't at all. The yield I'm getting from the AK48 autos is really shitty to what I'm used to also. I'm flushing one since they're all finishing at different times. On the upside, one of the plants is the stickiest of the icky I've ever grown and I've grown some world class clones. This was picked 3 days ago.

Owsley1975 said:

Yeah, grow em outside. For some reason beyond me, Ruderalis should grow great in low temperatures with temp variations. It doesn't at all. The yield I'm getting from the AK48 autos is really shitty to what I'm used to also. I'm flushing one since they're all finishing at different times. On the upside, one of the plants is the stickiest of the icky I've ever grown and I've grown some world class clones. This was picked 3 days ago.
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That's some frosty bud...nice!

tst2015 said:

That's some frosty bud...nice!

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Nirvana AK48 auto. They're supposed to be giving me some fems but haven't shown up yet? Hopefully, I can get a pheno as frosty as this one.

I had an Alien Vs Triangle F2 Throw those exact same pod looking structures, but it wasn't male flowers or nanners at all...just a messed up, perhaps gentically unstable runt. But it did not produce one spore of pollen or one seed, despite the 'seed pod' appearance. Very, very strange. Haven't had it happen since. The best advice I can give for growing autos, after growing them for 5 years, is that auto's like the same ol' same ol' environment day after day. They will grow best when you interfere with their natural processes as little as possible. Outside of LST'ing to the dominant, tallest branches down to the exact same even height, I leave them alone. I just bend down the branches that are taller than the others so that all of my canopy is even.

Logan Burke said:

I had an Alien Vs Triangle F2 Throw those exact same pod looking structures, but it wasn't male flowers or nanners at all...just a messed up, perhaps gentically unstable runt. But it did not produce one spore of pollen or one seed, despite the 'seed pod' appearance. Very, very strange. Haven't had it happen since. The best advice I can give for growing autos, after growing them for 5 years, is that auto's like the same ol' same ol' environment day after day. They will grow best when you interfere with their natural processes as little as possible. Outside of LST'ing to the dominant, tallest branches down to the exact same even height, I leave them alone. I just bend down the branches that are taller than the others so that all of my canopy is even.

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Thanks for the info. I thought I'd give autos a try but it didn't work for me. I will try them again...maybe this winter when controlling heat is a little easier

Yeah, they're certainly not for everyone. If I wasn't growing in hydro, I probably wouldn't really grow them myself.