Identifying Swollen Calyx with Seed Pods – Could They Be Bracts or Ovules?

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Hello Fam!

Just finished one of my best yields. The product was nice, and the weight was great. I had 2 strains in the room. 27 LCG’s, and 70 Runtz both came out beautiful for a final product. Some people mentioned that it could be ovules, or bracts and it’s nothing  worry about. However, they’re everywhere, it almost feels like I’m not even getting any bud when you grind it up. It’s happening to multiple strains I have.

I’ll provide the nutrients I use, the schedule I use for Lights, PPM, CO2, pH and Temps.

<b>Background information:</b>

<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Gavitas 1700 LEDs. 5 – 7 inches from top nugs/canopy. No bleached or discolored nugs.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Have a strong Green Light Bulb. Found that the crew had left this on a handful of times during the dark period during flower.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Found that crew was watering during the dark period, and happened to use a flashlight to look at trees multiples times throughout the run in flower.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>While watering in the dark period noticed 1 of the Gavitas turn on and off like a flicker. Never in the room during dark period, so don’t know if this was a coincidence or always happened.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Clones have been in rotation for 2 years
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Have had pods before, but nothing this extensive and nothing this noticeable

<b>Grow Notes:</b>

<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Veg 1 – 5 weeks: We waited for dry back, then watered. By week 4 of Veg the plants were eating .5 gallons almost daily with dry back.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>At the end of every week of flower we flushed.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Flower: week 1 – 4 plants were eating .5 gallons daily, then every other day.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>End of Week 3 flower we pruned.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>2 days into Week 4 of flower we de-leafed.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Didn’t touch the plants after.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Flower week 5 – 6: Plants slowed down eating.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Flower week 6 – 8: 30 plants out of 97 were eating daily .5 gallons. The rest were eating every other day, or even every 3 days. They stopped eating as much, the pots had MUCH less dry back.
<li data-xf-list-type=”ul”>Flushed 3 days, lights off 2 days then chopped.

Overall plants didn’t show stress in leaves, or colors, but we did notice that by end of week 6 the majority of the room was not eating.

<b>Grow condition & schedule:</b>
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I’ve been researching on this for a while and still can’t come up with a conclusion. My theory is that my light distance, and light intensity is too high at a certain point.

I’m thinking of increasing the light distance, and lowering the light intensity at the end of week 4.

However, I did end up running into an issue that I noticed during trim. I found a lot of light green hollow pods, and what I think looks like sacs at the bottom of the nugs, but I’m not sure what I’m looking at or looking for because in 3 years I’ve never had this issue. Something like this:

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Did you see any pollen sacs at the nodes or any anthers (nanners) coming out of the buds?

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