Looks like my laziness and forgetfullness has done me in again.
A few weeks back I had cut two branches off some plants that were in veg and put them in my tent under 12:12 to sex them. Well, I eventually forgot about them until just now when I saw one had actually hermied and released some pollen. Looks like it was only one sac that opened up. These were also pretty much at ground level, just a few inches from the floor of the tent.
I promptly removed them, and sprayed down the tent with water to hopefully render any pollen hanging around from doing its thing..
How fucked am I? I have two plants that are 3 weeks from finishing, and one that is just two weeks into flowering.
Im hoping the pollen was either sterile, or it was low enough to the ground that at most lower branches only will get pollinated.
As an FYI:
The one that hermied was one that in veg was an underperformer, and for some reason got slightly burned and stunted (despite other plants from the same seed pack being treated the same and doing fine). I was pretty tempted to cull this one, but was convinced here on icmag to give it a chance.
Lesson learned....under performers and stressed plants are just simply not worth the fucking time, effort, or risk..
A few weeks back I had cut two branches off some plants that were in veg and put them in my tent under 12:12 to sex them. Well, I eventually forgot about them until just now when I saw one had actually hermied and released some pollen. Looks like it was only one sac that opened up. These were also pretty much at ground level, just a few inches from the floor of the tent.
I promptly removed them, and sprayed down the tent with water to hopefully render any pollen hanging around from doing its thing..
How fucked am I? I have two plants that are 3 weeks from finishing, and one that is just two weeks into flowering.
Im hoping the pollen was either sterile, or it was low enough to the ground that at most lower branches only will get pollinated.
As an FYI:
The one that hermied was one that in veg was an underperformer, and for some reason got slightly burned and stunted (despite other plants from the same seed pack being treated the same and doing fine). I was pretty tempted to cull this one, but was convinced here on icmag to give it a chance.
Lesson learned....under performers and stressed plants are just simply not worth the fucking time, effort, or risk..
