Pollen Problems

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 .
 
if u got pollen then dont grow in the same room until u sanitized it. i would get a hepa filter and that filter out all the pollen and bleach/h2o2 the rest of your room
 
okay kinda long but this is my go at it.. look i have nanerds in the seventh week but i cut most at ten even 11 weeks in.. i start to think stradagy i need it to be potent but not seeded so i compramise the time if i can hit somewere around 15 days after the nanerds it takes 30 days for seeds to form CORECT??? okay the seeds will be to small for the avrage joe to zero in on it and it will dry in the cure and shrink so it will just be part of vegitation, in my case it poped around week six unseed man she or cross dresser and let sacks loose hiden like you sead.... the ball sacks were empty all the freeken way so im letting it go a few days after 8 week i have no choice but it has to be good enough for the patient or im on the assed out tip.. for shure... so i will be shuting lights off so that the seeds dont form as fast... to produce seeds the plant needs to photosynthesis and i will be slowing it down it need LIGHT, co2, and clorafile and i will be depriving it of the light to slow it down a lil but at the same time putting hours of life on the plant to try and change the tricomes the closer the better.. good luck hope this helps also if you dont sanitize the shit out of your room pollen lives for 2 months and all it takes is a lil fan to reblow the shit around.. good luck
 
The plants I am worried about aren't in flower yet , they are decent size and about to show sex soon but havn't. No pistols yet . So I am gonnna vacuum and wipe down everything again in bleach(except for plants) and spray plants with water like 3-4 times a day still . Hoping I can get any pollen that may be floating around etc . So would the smell of the bleach hurt the plants if I used it to clean the rooms with the plants in there? They are all in 20 gallon totes and would be hard for me being that I can barely walk already to bring them upstairs . Just want to make sure it is okay . Well I been working on sealing better and running a duct from outside winter air in that wont point at the plants to cool room down quicker with controlled fan and will be ducting the other fan out upstairs and out the window on other side of the house . hoping this will help keep air in the rooms strictly to the rooms alone and not the rest of the basement. I am sterilizing the whole basement also not just the rooms and thats what I have been doing for the past month and 3 weeks already. Hope it will rid this pollen if it is in there. Not sure if the autoflowers were just junk to begin with or they released pollen or was old lingering pollen.
 
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