Can a dried up hermie still pollenate flowering plants?

mrt1980

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Hi we cut down a dead hermie that only had a few days left, dried it out for a week but couldnt get out all the polen sacks because they where in with the bud. I was just wondering if the pollen in that could get onto the plants though me smoking it and getting it on my hands?
Thanks for any help
 
that's a complicated scenario :bigjoint:

I've seen "Jorge Cervantes grow DVD 2", when he was in Spain there was an outdoor plant that produced seeds even though there were no males in that garden, and the nearest houses to that place were half a mile away, and jorge said there is a garden half a mile away with male pollens that reached this female,

in your case , hmm... just don't touch your buds after touching the Hermie and don't even put the Hermie in the same room as the females

good luck
 
For MRT1890, yeah, I'd say there is a pretty good chance that pollen from a dried mature hermie could be viable after a week.

I wouldn't say its all that likely that pollen will get on your female plants just from smoking the hermie, or from your hands, but how hard is it to take the hermie plant elsewhere and wash your hands before handling your female growing plants?

Why take chances? If you don't want seeds get rid of the male flowers, and clean up after them.

For Arab Kush, individual pollen grains can literally be carried for miles by the wind.

For this reason outdoor plants are always at risk for getting fertilized by wild hemp plants or someone's unculled male, and in fact, in some places there are so many wild plants, hemp plants or unculled males, that you basically can't grow seedlessly outside.
 
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