Thread: unexpected flowering? help

my girls were on 18on 6 off and i noticed that on started flowering without me changing the lighting and by the time i noticed it had hermied so i got it out of there. my question is: how did this happen? and what can i do to prevent it? i think i may have another hermie as well so im keeping an eye on it. please leave any suggestions thanks.

heubacca...
You might be having light leaks.
Go inside your grow room at lights off and hang around 5 or 10 minutes and see if you can see ANY little pinholes of light .
Even the smallest pinhole can be enough to cause one to go hermie on you.
Might be some other form of stress on your girls, but this would be where I'd start lookin' first.
Hope this helps....Welcome to the forum.................J

heubacca...
You might have some light leaks.
Go inside your grow room at lights off and hang around 5 or 10 minutes and see if you can see ANY little pinholes of light .
Even the smallest pinhole can be enough to cause one to go hermie on you.
Might be some other form of stress on your girls, but this would be where I'd start lookin' first.
Hope this helps....Welcome to the forum.................J

Originally Posted by Skihigh

You might have some light leaks.

Light leaks won't make a plant hermie if it is in 18/6. If it did people would not be able to use 20/4 or 24/0.

edit: Are you sure it was hermieing? Pistils in veg are normal and many people have confused a calyx (female) for male parts.

Originally Posted by PhatJay

Light leaks won't make a plant hermie if it is in 18/6. If it did people would not be able to use 20/4 or 24/0.

edit: Are you sure it was hermieing? Pistils in veg are normal and many people have confused a calyx (female) for male parts.

this is my first grow, and there was a small white flower on the lower stock, and then little buds forming up from that in clusters...i havent killed it ive just moved it to the back yard to watch....but again this is my first grow so i am not entirely sure, i asked an semi experienced friend and he was split down the middle on it as well.

im still confused as to how it started flowering with out changing light schedual to 12/12

A wild guess is you may have had a seed made for auto flowering but im no expert. If it is showing signs of being male destroy it, its not worth the risk of pollonation and wont be any good to you anyway.
d0ct0r

Originally Posted by heubacca

my girls were on 18on 6 off and i noticed that on started flowering without me changing the lighting and by the time i noticed it had hermied so i got it out of there. my question is: how did this happen? and what can i do to prevent it? i think i may have another hermie as well so im keeping an eye on it. please leave any suggestions thanks.

Looks like it has male parts to me. I would kill it.

dammit....they were femenized seeds i dont get it

It happens!
If the rest of the gals are OK, it's might just be a sport.

'nother one shows "balls on the flop"?
Start looking for stress factors.

Aloha,
Weezard

4 of seven have went that way, there are no windows, in cold seller in the basment, i keep heated at about 26 degrees, i have fans, ventalation. the only thing i can think is landlord came by last week so i had to move them, but they were not in darktime and i put in front of a window for about four hours and then they went straight back in before dark time....im just mind boggled and want to figure out what i did wrong...and dont understand how that would effect them in vegitative stage.

Best look for a common cause then.
Could be a sudden sunny window, I suppose.

Have you been checking the water PH, in and out?

Our tap water can run from 7.4 to 8.5 on any given day.
A sudden change in ph can stress cannabis.

They don't look unhealthy though.
So probably an event rather than long term stress.

'course, it could be the seed.
If a male flower on the mom went unnoticed you don't get a femmed seed, you get a hermie-prone femmed seed.

Hmm, seems I'm out of pennies at this point.
If you pin it down, let us know.

Aloha,
Weeze

After viewing photos... destroy the plants. Get your seeds from somewhere else. All our grow comes down to quality of seed and seed providers never guarantee female its 99.9% to cover there as#. Pollen sacks are very delicate and you may have pollinated the others already having moved them. Hoping youve still got some ladies
d0ct0r

theres one fr sure female, the males are gone, keeping white widows alive tho for seeds, just not in the room, going to put them outdoors....noww another question....whats going on when stems turn red?

Originally Posted by heubacca

whats going on when stems turn red?

Excess Phosphorous.

hi mate had the same problem but i found out that this is normal and will happen when the plants sexually mature enough to put into flower i changed my light cycle from 18/6 to 24 hr veg hope this helps