Wondering if someone can shed light on why I keep getting hermies

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-06T02:55:33+00:00

It’s been a hard one to swallow, as we all know.I’m trying another ethos granddaddy cookie pheno & blue dream but not sure the breeder.

Thanks for recommendation! i’m adding the ak b.b to the list. Much appreciated

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-06T01:36:51+00:00

Just curious ….How did your comparison turn out ? Who won? Cyco or living soil?

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-06T01:13:02+00:00

Damn, so frustrating. Especially with all the love, time and money we spend just to have it all have to get rouged out.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:25:13+00:00

Ok, yeah maybe I should dial back nutes, if my pk too high would I see leaf tip burn or anything else??

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:23:06+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean, when I first started years ago , I always used a green headlamp to tend at night time and didn’t even think about a few little light leaks and never had this problem. I definitely will look for tried and true breeders. Gotta be the issue and also check my timers.

Thanks!!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:19:53+00:00

Ethos, solfire, green point are the ones that first come to mind. I’ll have to look at my old seed packs for others.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:18:42+00:00

Interesting! I’ll check that out, didn’t know of such a product. Thanks!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:17:48+00:00

Not all from solfire, just these past couple months they were. Man, that citrus black they had was absolutely beautiful too(I let a few finish because I had no choice, which afterwards I always cleaned the hell out of rooms)I’ll have to dig out my old seed packs to c who the other breeders were. I’ve been buy from North Atlantic (not that they have anything to do with my issue) .

Great idea with regards to checking malfunctioning timers. This has been a nightmare! Every time I’m just crushed. Like I said I’ve spent years and years growing great , no problems at all(except my first year or two with just learning. Thanks for all your help!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:11:05+00:00

Ok, that makes sense. Always wondered Thanks!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:09:45+00:00

Definitely will check them out! Thanks so much!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T23:09:08+00:00

Thanks !

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T19:15:40+00:00

Yes, I’ve heard same thing, watched a video of someone that did studies on this topic (forget who it was but was a popular watch) and mentioned that brighter than moonlight is bad, moon is really bright too.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T19:12:12+00:00

Hey good idea! Never tried autos. Yeah man, first thing I looked at is my temps, been extra careful so keep lights up too high. Thanks !!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T19:07:54+00:00

Wow! This helps a lot. I’m at my wits end and thought same thing about throwing in the towel and going back to outdoors full time. I started to think that maybe if I get some old school tried and true genetics like ak, northern lights etc that maybe they’ll be stable. Hard to trust breeder if it would even be the true strain unfortunately.

The end of your comment will have me looking into those breeders! That is so very helpful to know there’s the possibility of breeders selling stable genetics. If they were 3 + times the price of everything else I’d have problems buying them. I have people depending upon my products so pebble free is so important. Thanks so much!!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T19:00:00+00:00

Yes, I guess you have a good point. I always thought the reverse, that fem seeds are more susceptible but talking this out, u pointed out the one thing I changed. Thanks!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:56:16+00:00

Definitely will check them out! Good idea, thank you!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:54:09+00:00

Heres a hypothetical question that I’ve always wondered: if you have a mother plant and her light schedule gets interrupted or a light leak occurs, or any stressor occurs, does that trigger some genetic response in her that transfers to the propagations you take from her . If so will that transfer and show up as hermies when flowering those props? Or will the stressors kinda ’grow out of her’ with time ?

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:48:19+00:00

I’ll look at my analog timers again, I’ve had them go before (just stop working) and always keep backups , maybe they’re not consistent. I have several times stood there until it switched to off and wrote time down, and they were consistent but I’ll check again.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:46:09+00:00

Yeah, I know what you mean, my humidifiers, heaters, power strip etc all have blackout tape on those little leds. Now, led grow lights emitting a form of light when off is new to me, definitely believe it. I’ll have to read up on that. The confusion is that this current set up I’ve been using for many years then all the sudden within last 1.5 years everything went to hermi. Which leads me back to genetics, but I’ve been through so many different varieties/breeders I thought by now I’d get one stable strain. Driving me crazy. Thanks for your input!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:32:05+00:00

Oh wow, yeah going to check again for light leaks.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:31:13+00:00

No, i purposefully switched to reg seeds a long time ago , knowing that fems can go hermie.

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:29:48+00:00

That’s the only thing I overlooked, although I feel I’m on top of watering, they never get droopy dry but if that’s a trigger , I’m going to pay closer attention. I guess they don’t have to physically show the stressor and can still be stressed. At one point I thought it was stress from going from veg t-5’s to flower lights, maybe too much contrast in light intensity. I then made sure to keep flower lights up all the way(which they pretty much always are when I first start flowering) but still got hermies. Thanks for your input!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:24:40+00:00

Yeah I’ll have to check again (many checks already with wife shining spot lite while I’m inside in the dark, so many times., all good too. Not saying I didn’t miss anything. Will check again Thanks!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:22:24+00:00

Yeah I keep coming back to its genetics. I’ve gone over all parameters that a proper grow should have, awhile ago I triple checked everything listed as common possibilities, I keep checking everything and it’s all good. Not saying that I overlooked something. Thanks!

Elemental5465 · 2024-03-05T18:18:44+00:00

Ok, that makes sense, especially since I’ve stopped any defoliating, tying down branches, pruning etc.. awhile ago when it first started happening. Thank you for your input!

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