Late Pollenation?

[iliketogrow2]

I have 1 durban poison plant growing under 125W enviro blue and 80 W tube floro reds. it is about a month into flower and packing on wait nicely. It has been clearly a female up until now.

my fear comes from a post by a number member in regards to my 'amber hairs'. At only a month approximatly 1/4 of the pistills have already turned red. The other member suggested this is a sign of pollenation. I have no males in the house however have touched a friends male plant before it was chopped down.

i started searching the bud so signs of male parts but either havn't found much or don't really know what to look for.

'sacs' and seeds are primarily what im wary of. Near the bottom of hte bud where it meets the stem i have found some tiny tear drop shaped balls and i can't tell if they are those pouches that pistills come out of or just under-developed seeds.

does anyone have any experience with this? i have some pictures from 1 month in but the camera was pretty garbage so there arnt any good macro's ill try to get somthing better together this week.

 

[JJScorpio]

When a bud is pollenated the pistils wither up and look like they are dying. If they are red and healthy looking I doubt the plant has been pollenated....

 

[Guest]

yeah its probably just more bud sites developing.

 

[iliketogrow2]

the pistills do look like they are drying out. but its possible they are just drying out from being to close to my bulb

 

[Guest]

when searching the buds..are you touching them..if so your turning the hairs

 

[iliketogrow2]

are you trying to say by touching the hairs im making them turn red? should i not touch my buds ever?

 

[Guest]

thats is correct you touching them...they are delicate my friend they are like a womans ovary hanging out in the wind...lol

 

[Guest]

Man I hope I didnt worry you unnecessarily by pointing out the fact that pollenated pistils turn,you'd be able to spot male parts if pollen were to blame.Its more likely a heat/bleaching issue if male parts arent visable.It was more a good oppurtunity to point out this issue than I thought your plant were pollenated.

 

[Verite]

" I t-t-touched the pistals Ralph and they turned red... RED RALPH!! ... red is bad! "

 

[Guest]

Yea I dont think fondling pistils will turn them either lol,only time or pollenation as far as I know.

 

[Guest]

from experience silly

I have never had pistils change color from touching them. I am always touching them. Where did you hear this from?

 

[iliketogrow2]

more and more pistils are turning red, but there are certainly no male parts and ive searched hard.
its only been 32 days but these plants look really close to being ready, another fellow grower said the same. i will take some pics for some more experienced opinions. thanks for tracking this thread everyone!

 

[Guest]

If its in a room where you sleep or spend much time at all really,you're growing with co2 enrichment possibly and it does speed things up so much its hard for me to comprehendo,its a possibility anyway.Spending much time in my 8 by 8 flower room boosts PPms 500 or more,your breath is 40,000 PPMS co2.Get a 5 dollar syringe and tube test and have a look you may be surprised

 

[iliketogrow2]

wow!! ballast man thats amazing. most 'interesting' growing observation ive heard in along time my cabinet is in my bedroom so thats 12 hours of co2 enrichment per ngiht that i dont sleep at my girlfriends. pretty cool stuff

 

[Guest]

I'm about to pick up some tube testers and check my vegrrom different parts of the day after sleeping in it all night,I usually have the door to the room open,I'm keeping it closed now.If I have the levels I think I'll have at 6 in the morning when the lights come on,I'm shutting my exhaust and keeping the door closed.The onlt thing stopping me is I only have 6 mature plants in veg,in 4 weeks it'll be around thirty.Thats when I'll do my test because that many plants makes a ton of co2 during the dark hours.Interesting shit