Little (very tiny) hard shelled thing inside each individual calyx.. what are these?

cannabisguru

cannabisguru

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Yep, I'm an experienced grower.. not a professional though.. so yeah, I'm wanting to know what are these tiny little things that reside inside each little individual calyx. It almost looks like a seed.. but its nowhere near the size of a seed... nowhere near it.

If I had to compare it to something to give you an idea of how small these things are.. I would have to say that they're not bigger than the tip of a ballpoint pen. Actually, they're a little smaller than that even.

I looked at one underneath my microscope.. magnified it at 50x and it almost looks like a seed.. but like I said.. the size is throwing me off because they're so freaking small!! I tried taking a picture of one.. but they're just too small to focus on with my current camera.

Are these terpenes?? Or.. what?

peace.
 
cannabisguru

cannabisguru

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ahhhh alrighty then. Thanks for that.. I was really thinking that it HAD to be a seed.. I just didn't realize how small they were when they're that premature.

Thats what was throwing me off.. making me second guess as to what they were. Even though I knew it was a seed.. the rediculus small size just threw me off as I've never seen a seed that small before.. wow.

Learned something new today! ;)

Weird..

thanks for the help ppl.

peace.
 
benny blanco

benny blanco

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Does it look like a tiny lima bean? Smaller than an ant? I had those and I was trippin out but it wasn't a seed. I only had one or two though
 
greenpark13

greenpark13

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I just chopped a Dinafem Roadrunner an hour ago, and had the same dang thing. I feel like an idiot b/c I didn't notice. It looked like all the fem plants I have grown before. I had a scrog in a PC case (about 6 inches tall, but growing about 18 inches sideways), so it was hard to see under the canopy.

Fuck, is this going to really hurt the potency? I could really use a pick me up. I feel awful -- like I want to puke.

I grow only 2-3 plants per year for personal consumption and I have really learned a lot over the past two years. Except for the tiny white seeds, this was by far the healthiest, frostiest, possibly highest yielding grow I have done (first time I scrogged).

Is all the frosty resin going to be downgraded b/c of the herm?

Other notes: I grow organic hydro, hempy style in perlite. The grow went 65 days from seed to chop. I chopped when all the hairs turned red. 24/7 light schedule.
 
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Wetdog

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No joke, that's what it is. A plants uterus so to speak. If fertilized with pollen, it will develop into a seed. If not, it gets smoked.

It is not an immature seed. Not till it gets fertilized anyway.

Wet
 
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Wetdog

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greenpark13 said:
How quickly can a pollen turn the ovary into a full-blown seed?
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If I'm making seeds, I allow at least 4 weeks for seeds to develop.

The actual pollination takes less than 1 hour, usually less than 1/2 hour.

Actually, not an ovary, but an ovule. That's what will become a seed if fertilized and is inside the ovary.

Wet
 
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RodriguesIV

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I was searching and came across this thread and I made the same discovery as well. I was worried I had seeds so I tore open a few calyx's to find this tiny seed-like thing attached to the white hairs of the buds but it's very tiny. I checked them week after week to see if they would turn into seeds but they always stayed the same so I knew they weren't. I just wanted to put this out there so people wouldn't automatically think they have seeds when they see this.
 
chrweed

chrweed

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cannabisguru said:
ahhhh alrighty then. Thanks for that.. I was really thinking that it HAD to be a seed.. I just didn't realize how small they were when they're that premature.

Thats what was throwing me off.. making me second guess as to what they were. Even though I knew it was a seed.. the rediculus small size just threw me off as I've never seen a seed that small before.. wow.



Learned something new today! ;)

Weird..

thanks for the help ppl.

peace.
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the overy of the plant is in the calyx. looks like immature seeds but its just the overy. unless pollinated
 
hmasonb34

hmasonb34

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Ok Just a quick question please. Why are some calyx barely seeable and others big as hell. What is in them other than the Pre-seed. Is bigger better and if so what's to be added to increase size. I know there suppose to swell as they mature if so what's it filled with. THC or some kind of amniotic fluid or Is it a solid plant mater. Just trying to learn something here. This was actually a question a friend asked me. He's using fox farm/big calyx and I'm on Canna/small calyx. Somewhere I've read that molasses would help increase there size just still not sure if bigger is better and if so what does it. Nutes/Temps/Air circulation/Co2.... What could it be. Thanks a lot any info would be greatly appreciated. Or a link would be great... Thanks Mase...
 
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lamby666

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hmasonb34 said:
Ok Just a quick question please. Why are some calyx barely seeable and others big as hell. What is in them other than the Pre-seed. Is bigger better and if so what's to be added to increase size. I know there suppose to swell as they mature if so what's it filled with. THC or some kind of amniotic fluid or Is it a solid plant mater. Just trying to learn something here. This was actually a question a friend asked me. He's using fox farm/big calyx and I'm on Canna/small calyx. Somewhere I've read that molasses would help increase there size just still not sure if bigger is better and if so what does it. Nutes/Temps/Air circulation/Co2.... What could it be. Thanks a lot any info would be greatly appreciated. Or a link would be great... Thanks Mase...
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green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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cannabisguru said:
Yep, I'm an experienced grower.. not a professional though.. so yeah, I'm wanting to know what are these tiny little things that reside inside each little individual calyx. It almost looks like a seed.. but its nowhere near the size of a seed... nowhere near it.

If I had to compare it to something to give you an idea of how small these things are.. I would have to say that they're not bigger than the tip of a ballpoint pen. Actually, they're a little smaller than that even.

I looked at one underneath my microscope.. magnified it at 50x and it almost looks like a seed.. but like I said.. the size is throwing me off because they're so freaking small!! I tried taking a picture of one.. but they're just too small to focus on with my current camera.

Are these terpenes?? Or.. what?

peace.
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I find these every once ina while. only on really killer smoke which confused me.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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it's completely normal for this to happen, I've seen it many, many times. Quite documented as well. It's sorta like the plants, um, menstrual cycle (forgive the analogy), it's an un-pollinated seed.
I think there is a technical term/name for it, but it escapes me at the moment
 
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