Newbie 1st post: I tore off swollen female calyxes thinking they were sacs :/?

Hi! So I have three autos (grape, Northern lights, white widow) just going into their 5th week of flowering. They were on 18/6 but switched them to 12/12 because I thought I had to, then changed the light schedule a couple days agp tp 20/4 because I read that autos aren’t affect ed by light switches or schedules and that THC is maximized during light… I won’t lie, I also wanted to hurry it up it’s my first grow and I’m pretty excited… here’s the problem: I just checked them and found so many sacs, thought they went hermie so my knee-jerk reaction was to scrape like 20 off of two plants (grape and a white widow) until I realized that maaaaybe they are female calyxes? I’m posting pictures but I think they were- two hairs protruding (sigh) and were mostly under buds.

Did I damage or stunt my girls in any way? Or did they turn hermaphrodite because of the sudden light switch? Shoot me now. I should also say they used to be four autos, but one was clearly a male at the end of week three so I yanked it out. Thanks everyone!

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Calyxes with 2 protruding hairs are female calyxes. Cutting them of is depriving yourself of yield, but it won’t hurt the plant itself.

Additional light will not help to ripen your plant any faster.

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Hey MidwestGuy, thank you! Will the plants recover and grow more calyxes?

Thanks for the lighting tip.

Yes, if is still at the stage where calyxes are still being produced. A plant will be done making calyxes at about week 6 or 7 of flowering.

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Yep those are calyces. They are the ones that appear first to show sex, that’s why there aren’t any others around it.

Good catch. I missed that they were picked off the nodes.

A good lesson learned the hard way- thank you.

@MoonShadow you will always get more accurate, complete answers by also posting pics of the full plants.

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It shouldn’t cause her any stress and they were worthless calyces anyway.

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I done the same thing a couple of months ago.
One rule you cannot rush any plant. You want it to let it run it’s course.

Last year I had a small plant in my closet and I forced it into flower.

It stayed small and the buds tasted like dryer sheets.
Lmao

Live and learn.

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Thanks, OldBuds!

Great community support here!

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Have you thought about how much weed you took off your plant on the paper towels!!
If it were to have matured. Lol

Check out this beauty. Notorious thc she smells like Gas and sour oil…

She’s 5’x5’

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