Does anyone know why? Pistols look funny

Okay so I am noticing some buds are starting off with red hairs real small instead of long white pistols. I’m noticing this on all of my plants. I haven’t noticed this on my last harvest, maybe this is normal but I’m feeling like this is happening due to the light being too close maybe or something with the nutrients or something with the pH. Maybe I’m tripping and this is normal. Is this supposed to happen? It’s only on a couple Bud sites, when the rest of the plant looks like I believe it should with the pistols long and white, I’m only on week 5 of flower but I’ve been noticing this since the beginning of the flip. I’m hoping my questions are understandable and somebody can give me a good answer for this. It would be so hard to see in pictures and I feel like I could explain it better but just can’t get the words out so hopefully someone understands me. Thanks, I’ll try to post a picture anyway but I doubt you’re going to be able to see what I’m talking about in the picture



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Probably just genetics?

Edit: you’re explaining it quite well. Leaves look okay. Is it a different strain from your last one?

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@SausageMahoney well I’m noticing it on all four of the flowering plants, they’re all different. The biggest plant, and the one I noticed at the most on is a clone from my last harvest and I don’t remember that plant doing that. I also didn’t have these LEDs on my last harvest, and I also didn’t have it as cool in the room on the last harvest. I’m going to have to get some better pictures later so you can really see what I’m talking about

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Your leaves look okay and thats usually a 1st indicator of any worrying issues.

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Yeah it’s crazy cuz my pH is all messed up, it dipped on everything down to 6.2, maybe even lower. I am kind of worrying about the autos because the leaves look like s*** on them but on the big plant the leaves look fine and I think the pH is like 6.1 on her LOL but there is like one spot on the plant where only a leaf or two looks like it is slowly burning but not bad at all. Let me see if I can find a picture of the autos so I can show you what I’m talking about with the leaves




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I’ve forgotten but what soil, and lights are you utilizing?

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Sometimes red hairs early in flower is a result of pollination but haven’t heard of them growing out of the bud like that initially… is it possible there are any unseen nanners around?

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@JMBLeaf yeah I heard that also and that’s what I’m wondering about and hoping it could be something else. But I just took a plant out of the room that was 4 weeks into flower that was making seeds, no nanners, just full grown seeds deep inside the bud so I’m not sure how it works but hopefully that didn’t pollinate it. So what should I do, should I cut off the buds that look infected or should I just let it ride

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@SausageMahoney I’m in ffof, I have two 1200 watt LEDs, 300 a piece out the wall. A 250 watt HPS, and all kinds of side lighting, 7 20 w LEDs, 2 4 ft t5s lol

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@Poochie332 just tagging you so you can see what’s going on and learn

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Sounds to me theres a likely herm or nanners somewhere if you have a plant producing seeds… they are easy to miss so I would go over each plant very carefully

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@JMBLeaf but yeah I got rid of the plant with the seeds, that was the only plant I had that was a bag seed, I think the reason it was producing seeds was cuz it was a bag seed genetics or whatever

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Hey @SausageMahoney , happy cake day!

I’d really clean things out, as best you can, and look over everything carefully to see if there are any more nanners, males or hermies. When you clean, don’t forget filters on fans and blowers, fabric on the pots, etc.

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I’ve had this happen its fine you’re grow looks great

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@Smokesdaily thank you very much

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If you had seeds, you had pollen somewhere!

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Just a reminder, seeds happen when a female plant is pollinated. The source of the pollen could be a plant that went hermie, or a male plant (which could be a long way away). Pollen (from somewhere) depositing on female plants during flower is what causes seeds.

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Well like I was saying the plant that started producing seeds was just a bag seed plant try imagine it hermed due to genetics

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happy cana day!!!

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If anything its just genetics maybe.
Just like humans or any living thing really, there can be many things that effects development, some humans can be perfectly healthy and normal but have a patch of gray hair from birth or maybe a tiny arm or :man_shrugging:

Nutrients, and ph issues will display more as a uniform pattern rather then a isolated spots or 2.
Lights can burn plants in isolated spots but that’s typically easy to tell as it literally burns them from heat.

Pests can cause isolated issues to though I’m fairly confident that’s not the cause here.

I had a plant not long ago that one limb looked like it was locked out completely while the rest of the plant was green and healthy, that one branch looked terrible :man_shrugging:
It still produced just fine, even the branch with crispy leaves :sweat_smile:

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