ftrfta
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To start off my last grow I had a nanner open at the beginning of flower on a shade leave, which is for some reason why I never caught it in time . I know I should of but I didn't and threw out my whole flowering and vegging crops because I did not want to deal with it . Lots of soil lost and time and $ of course. I have been growing since 08 and never have had a problem with pollen yet . I am a CG and a Patient so my patients should get the best I can get for them and up until now I have done that. I almost out of meds this is why I am depending on this crop. I threw the last crop out of the room around the first of november. I cleaned the rooms with bleach water 2-3 times and also hosed the rooms with water around 20 times. Well I ordered new seeds and germination was around thanksgiving as soon as I got them in. They also came with 3 autoflowers , la diva,blueberry,diesel. I read that you can leave the auto's on 24/0 light schedule and they would be fine . I wanted to go 20/4 but being how cold its been outside I wanted to leave lights on for warmth to keep room at 75-80 and it maintained that. Well I had 2 plants die on me about two weeks in and found out that my humidity was less then 20%. So I started misting my plants like 2-3 times a day and puting water on the floor till I could get a humidifier. Within 3-4 hours the floor would be completely dry.. I have never had a humidity problem at my other house and the new house I live at has a condensing furnace so it takes all humidity out of the air and it runs into the sump pump hole. Well I ended up getting a humidifier. Then I realized my exhaust fan runs to much air so it takes the humidity out faster then the air. I ended up fixing that problem with a fan controller and the plants are now at 18/6 . I gradually changed from 24/0 over the past 7-8 days. So my humidty now is 55-60 when the lights are out and 40-50 when lights are on. Well in the last 10 days my vegging plants are the best I have ever grown , no stretching at all and lots and lots of branches and super green I am quite impressed . Now for what made me almost cry and give up growing but I can't because my patients are low income like me and no one is going to help them out like I do so that is what keeps me going . A few weeks ago the plants were super compact and bushy because of the humidity problem I dunno but looked weird . Well since they took off after that phase I been till spraying with water , I usually do . Well I was spraying 2 of the autoflowers and looking at their neat little buds and I noticed a orange Pistol off the stem, then 2 more and the rest were white . So I popped off a calyx and their was a seed in it , Checked few more and of course seeds . So I looked for hermie and couldn't see anything but these autoflowers are so small and same with buds on em they could be hidden in the bud I dunno , very compact they were. So I bagged both of them and the other one that hasn't even thrown pistols yet and threw em away . Should of never grew em in the first place. So now I don't know if it was that they hermied or leftover pollen . So now my other plants are huge and looking really nice , thankfully none of them have pistols yet , I check everywhere and I am lucky there so far . What sucks is I am using 20 gallon totes and dont wanna lose these plants . I have a ton of work into them and being disabled , I can barely walk without pain to begin with and doing all this work to have to throw these away again I would literally cry. I already lost about 300$ in soil and alot of time on last crop and this time about $500 in seeds and another $500 in soil . On top of $200 for new containers , 4 more lights . Wife is definitely gonna be pissed if I have to throw this out being that I have so much into it. I should of just started with clones all my friends have saving strains for me but I did not know this was gonna happen. I have been spraying the plants misting them 4 times a day , and spraying the floors and walls with water and everything with water again 2-3 times a day keeping the humidity up . If water knocks down pollen should I bleach floors , ceilings , walls again ? if I make sure nothing gets on the plants can I leave them in the room when I wipe this all down etc . If anyone has any Ideas on what I should do I would be very thankfull . I don't know when these plants are gonna show sex but I need to do anything I can to make sure that I can get them not to be pollinated. If it is leftover pollen or the autoflowers that had bad genetics or because of humidity problem I had I dunno. Wish I did .