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Accidental Pollination?

vapeking

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Was doing a lot of testers from seeds we got at last years HTCC, and thought we weeded out all the males. Come to find out 2 in a rock wool tray 2 weeks into bloom slipped through the cracks so I yanked them out and shop vac'd the area around them to pick up the seed pods that fell off. Anyways today was harvest day and and as we were getting into trimming noticed everything in the room had some seeds!!! Anyways lucky i have good trimmers and 2 twisters to get most of the seeds.

Now heres where I am worried there are 4 other rooms that are isolated, but in the same building. How can Identify if these other rooms were pollinated? 2 rooms are 30 days into bloom and 2 other rooms are 7 days into bloom. Please only chime in if you know what you are talking about.
 
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hello/Banana

hello,

i think you have to look for them, in the first calyx's to develop that coincide with the pollen.

this is usually the preflowers along the main stem by nodes i think (???).

i would cut off some calyx's and have alook inside.

also you get obvious browning of pistils, so if the 30day ones are still white and healthy, you would probably assume they have not been pollinated.

if they are brown pistils with lackluster looking calyx, you would guess pollen got to them (???).

...although bare in mind, with such a vast number of plants, you could not say 100% it was the fathers you think it was, accounting for 100% of the offspring.

(opposed to female bananas dotted around etc).

regards
 

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vapeking

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Don't believer theres nanners, but def. the calyx is vigorous, swollen looking with two or three hairs coming out of it. The are not wilted looking but reddish amber in color. I read somewhere that these color changes are normal as the plant matures. Anyways been growing these strains for a while and just never look at them so hard as I am now because of the male scare. Who know this could be how they've always look just never dissected it this hard lol. The strains are J!, Alien Abduction, Bullrider, Sour Kush X Grapefruit, Super Star, and white widow. Still not convinced its not pollinated either though. Stressed lol
 
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