Heat Damage during Flowering(Hermie'd Plants?) Need Help ASAP

I'm growing some sour d plants in an aeroponic setup. A few weeks ago I apparently burned the tops of my plants by letting them grow too close to the light. I started getting really strange growth (most often it looks like a bud tried to grow, but the branch stretched all crazy, so it just has like the bug broken down into pistils growing up the stalk). Other spots almost look like buds, but deformed. The leaves growing from these areas now are usually a single leaf with no razor edges.

I tried cutting alot of this wierd growth off, but it just keeps growing with more strange growth. I'm not sure what to do, because some of the bud looks done, however alot of it doesn't. It seems like the normal looking buds aren't really developing anymore, and the hairs don't seem to be changing color.

What do I do? I've been flowering for about 90 days, and it seems like my stuff should be ready but im not sure what to do.

do you have some pics? sure would help

Is that the first time you've cut parts of your plant off?
If you're 90 days in, you should have pretty fully
formed buds.

probo24 said:

Is that the first time you've cut parts of your plant off?
If you're 90 days in, you should have pretty fully
formed buds.

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Yes, other than trimming off some of the lower branches about 30 days in, the only stuff I've cut from my plant was the growth I knew was fucked up. I will take some pictures in a bit and post them so you can see why I'm not sure what to do. I definitely have some buds that look super nice and pretty much all the way there, but there's also quite a bit of stuff that looks immature.

I just took pictures of some of the damaged stuff. There are definitely normal looking buds, and the hairs at one point were starting to turn red, however it seems like they havn't changed any more for a while now.

epoplive said:

Other spots almost look like buds, but deformed. The leaves growing from these areas now are usually a single leaf with no razor edges.

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This tells me that your plant my be re-vegging..... At least this PERFECTLT describes a plant that I started to re-vegging. Do you have any light leaks maybe?.....

dude the plants i have now hermied i think cus i let them grow too close to the light. it wasnt heat necessarily cus the canopy rarely got too hot, but just the light was too close. anyway just wanted to let you know same thing happened to me, no super strange growth just male flowers and seeds. u can look here::
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/324088-chop-time.html
my leaves look alot like yours. as for your pics some parts of your plant look ready soon some got white pistils and new growth it looks. so thats a tough call, maybe harvest in intervals cut the parts you think look more ready than others and wait.

fadrian said:

dude the plants i have now hermied i think cus i let them grow too close to the light. it wasnt heat necessarily cus the canopy rarely got too hot, but just the light was too close. anyway just wanted to let you know same thing happened to me, no super strange growth just male flowers and seeds. u can look here::
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/324088-chop-time.html
my leaves look alot like yours. as for your pics some parts of your plant look ready soon some got white pistils and new growth it looks. so thats a tough call, maybe harvest in intervals cut the parts you think look more ready than others and wait.

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Yeah, I was actually reading your post yesterday and it sounded very similar. What's strange is I havn't been able to locate any seeds in the strange growth. Also, I don't think this is a light leak problem as there are definitely buds developing and I've put flowered plants back into veg, and they don't look like this. The problem definitely started after the tops of the plants got crispy from the light.

I also went and bought a scope yesterday, but what's wierd is that all of the trichs are clear, not seeing anything cloudy even in the most done looking stuff. I have 1 purple bubba kush plant growing, that ALL of the hairs turned red on, so I chopped the top part that looked done, but the trichs on that don't look cloudy either.

Do the plants turning hermie cause them to not finish flowering, or do I just have to wait longer? Also, is my bud just going to turn out to be shit if they are males now? I'd rather just start again and cut my losses now if the stuff the plants turn out is crap after giving them more time.

Thanks!

what i would to if i were you is let them go until they physically show they are ready (trichs turn color, or bud calyxes start swelling, or just overall look finished). even if the crop has seeds in it youll still have smokable buds, just a couple seeds no biggy, plus now you have some primo seeds. i would just play it by ear and let em flower until they look ready. unless of course you need the space for another crop or something, in which case its your call what would be more worth it to you.

Well, the seeds are unimportant to me, I have clones of the plants. To me, the bud calyxes look swollen already on much of the non-damaged growth. The trichs still appear clear though which is why I'm confused. I'll try to post some more pictures in a bit so you can see some of the buds that seem done to me.

Also, the buds that look the most ready have new growth above them on the same branch, but most of it is the new wierd looking growth. So I'm not really sure how I would remove those buds while allowing the new stuff to continue developing. The older buds are completely covered in crystals, and the new growth has very little, which makes me thing that growth is going to take a long time to mature.

Hermie doesn't make the leaves you describe, single leaves and no more budding is reveg period. Yes you will get all kinds of problems including hermies from burning them, stretching too, but the buds would still be growing not single leaves and it would still be maturing.

Check your timer or for light leaks even just under the door to the room, something.

chop that shit, fuck the new baby growth!

OregonMeds said:

Hermie doesn't make the leaves you describe, single leaves and no more budding is reveg period. Yes you will get all kinds of problems including hermies from burning them, stretching too, but the buds would still be growing not single leaves and it would still be maturing.

Check your timer or for light leaks even just under the door to the room, something.

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Well, what's wierd is it is growing new buds, they just generally look really stretched. The old buds are probably still developing somewhat (they have gotten somewhat puffier and more crystally, they just aren't growing at the rate they used to be).

OregonMeds said:

Hermie doesn't make the leaves you describe, single leaves and no more budding is reveg period. Yes you will get all kinds of problems including hermies from burning them, stretching too, but the buds would still be growing not single leaves and it would still be maturing.

Check your timer or for light leaks even just under the door to the room, something.

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I guess the other question I need to ask, is what do I do if my plants are infact going back to veg? Should I just chop them and start over, salvaging what I've got?

anyone mind answering my last question? thanks

I would chop them if they are past harvest time already or not getting anywhere and move on. I also would never never never grow that strain again if it gave me greif. If I was absolutely sure it wasn't my own fault screwing up the light cycle or missing a light leak. Even if it was my own fault I'd be looking for a better strain just in case.

epoplive said:

what do I do if my plants are infact going back to veg?

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I accidentally gave my girls 7 days of 24/0 at about 6 weeks into flowering. They were fine I just put them back on 12/12 and there finishing up quite nicely. Although I did have some strange growth on the top colas.

ptone said:

I accidentally gave my girls 7 days of 24/0 at about 6 weeks into flowering. They were fine I just put them back on 12/12 and there finishing up quite nicely. Although I did have some strange growth on the top colas.

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You got any pics? would love to see if it looks like what I'm seeing.

Once you are into reveg and flip back to flower it usually restarts the whole flower cycle all over again, so that's why I would chop, it's just not worth running but you can always try it and see.

I wasted time like that long ago once and got a mix of shitty crap I wasted two flower cycles on that didn't even add up to one good yield.
YMMV