Scared to death......

[Guest]

That im growing frigging hermies and im looking for comfort.

I started 4 plants on March 1, whose purpose it was to provide clones in mid April for the outdoor grow.


Problem:?

Once about a week ago, a lightning hit a transformer kicked the electric off in for over an hour. I immediately rushed to my house and provided lighting but they were in total darkness for about 15 minutes in the middle of the day.

I thought just that 1 x wont be a problem but yesterday, again a thunderstorm knocked out the electric and my lights didnt come on at 5:00 am and in fact, it was 1 1/2 hours before i discovered the problem.


2x they have had their photoperiod disrupted. Is this grow done and Is the risk to high for herms or should I flower the plants and forget the clones. Do you think there is a snowballs chance that im n ot growing a bunch of hermies. ?

What do you think? There really isnt time to take a cutting and flower it to see.

 

[LazLo]

It's unlikely that your looking at hermies with such small interruptions. My light cycle was really messed up last year when the carpenter pulled the plug on my lights. Twice in 4 days. Found out more than 18 hrs later first time. Caught it second time within 2 hrs and used another outlet. And still got 7 of 10 girlies from the NLXS. And they were about a month old when that happened. Those were started from seed. No clones.

You are getting an earlier start than me this year. Travel plans have me getting seeds started May 1. That will skew the lighting schedule to get the 15/9 needed when transplanting at sites first week of June.

Never lose your nerve, temper or keys!

 

[older toker]

I agree with LazLo, you should have no problems if you just go back to your regular time schedule. Light in the dark period is much worse than dark in the light period. The latter usually has no effect.

 

[Pimpslapped]

My experience is pretty limited, but I've had a couple different light period interruptions of varying lengths due to power outages. One plant did herm, the others did not. They were random bagseed and a Nirvana NL. One of the bagseeds hermed badly on me. This was after a handfull of brief light interruptions during flower and a 2 day period of no light.

My belief is that if a plants genetics have an inclination to go herm, then repeated lighting issues can force that trait to manifest. But a couple of brief interruptions shouldn't be too much of a problem, less likely to be an issue during veg than flower, IMO (Granted, I'm far from an expert, but I've had more than my share of bad luck along the way, so I've learned a bit that way.) YMMV

 

[cannanaut]

Cannabis is not that sensitive plant! You can make clones without worry.

 

[Slapstick]

I wouldent worry, had similar problems before with no hermies. Depends a bit on the strain ofc. some strains are more sensitive than others.

 

[SativaHybrid]

I agree that you are probably won't have a problem with hermies. However certain strains respond differently to photoperiod stress than others. Last year I had a timer failure that had my prospective mothers in the dark for over six hours longer than usually. None of my C99 or Chochlate Chunk hermied however 4 out of 6 of my Thaitanic crosses hermied. I also had a much higher male ratio than usual.

 

[barletta]

Danger, Hermies ahead!. Lol, just kiddin I move veg plants from 20/4 indoor lighting to outdoor lighting, to on a chair under a lightbulb, and they don't herm. They like a schedule more, but I've never had a plant that just hermed from the get go. Always related to an issue in flower, usually later.

 

[Guest]

Damn, I hope you guys are right. The strains are Sensi star and White Rhino and slapsticks comments are pertinent. The star can be a bit testy about its pp.

They are femmed seeds.

 

[Jiu Jitsu Playa]

i agree with everyone, shell grow like a lady, not the tranny you unexpectedly wake up next to after drinking cheap priced patron in a mexico border town and you just know someone slipped something in one of your drinks.... nevermind

 

[sunwukong]

I'm pretty sure cannabis as a species would have evolved a mechanism in its genome to "protect itself" against minor and short lived disruptions in its enviroment, including photoperiod. It can get pretty dark (not pitch black but close) ANYWHERE in the world providing heavy enough cloud cover (don't believe me? go outside with a uv meter when the sky turns green and the hail is the size of a gum ball) and I'm sure that with the rather short time your photoperiod was interrupted and that the shortness of day/longevity of night was not really significant, I wouldn't worry. If you want to play it safe, why not start a new group of seeds? Silverback, I've been following your posts as a lurker for a while now, you as well as Backcountry are like the perrenial outdoor guerilla frontrunners. While reading your post and looking at the local Flora and Fauna in your pics, I believe you are relatively close to where I live (East coast U.S., within 100-150 miles of the coast and with a degree of latitude of 40N,+/-2 degrees, no more than 1500 ft elevation). I personally don't sprout seeds until 4/20 (easiest date to remember, lol) and they don't go into the groud until 5/20. Even though I am pretty confident that the minor disruptions in the photoperiod won't leave you with an outdoor crop of hermied clones, you still have time to start another group of seeds, sex them, and clone them before the major grow period in our area begins (over the last few years, from personal experience I have noticed that 70 percent of a plants vegatative growth occured within the time period of July 1st- August 1). Just start a new round of seeds, sex and clone them , IF and only IF the light disruptions really make you that worried. Otherwise, I wouldn't be two freaked out. Two days in a row with a screwy photoperiod, I'd be wary. Two incidents, of wich their total time was less than 3 hours, spread over a week, I think you are just getting what every outdoor person is getting at the beginning of every year: performance anxiety. I get it too. Its hard not to when your whole year depends on one grow. Best of luck and I hope I was able to alay your fears, and if not, offer you a viable alternate option. Peace and a good (bannana free) harvest!

 

[scaramanga]

I wouldn't worry about it, I've had far worse happen during hurricanes; 3 week long power outages. Besides, they are so young at the moment that I doubt that any harm came to them.

 

[THRIPS AHOY!]

I wouldnt worry for a second.I shut my lights if on my moms all the time to spray.They seem to really enjoy a little break now and then.It's when yer triggering yer plants and u turn the lights on in the dark cycle.Thats when u gotta worry.

 

[badmf]

Glad to see you're on top of it SB, but as mentioned "No Worries, Mate!" It was an eclipse, LOL!!!

 

[Mr. Stinky]

no trouble at all. you cant hurt them when u are vegging. not until they start getting 12 of dark can you shock them...