As bad as i'd hate to ask, I have a question about "Pollen"

[MountainBudz]

In about a week I will be starting my indoor grow for the winter in my 4x4. As of now I have the remainder of my guerilla drying out and while finishing up the trimming process to tonight and putting into jars, I started noticing some seeds, and hermie flowers.

I bet I had a few lbs already with not one seed whatsoever, I know what cause these bastards was a streetlight that kicked off and on all night long. Won't be growing there again next year, thats for sure.

But my question is, since I am growing in these tent in the next few days, is there any need for me to worry about traces of pollen anywhere? Inside the room with the tents is carpet which shit gets down in carpet and its hard as fuck to get out.

I do plan on cleaning the shit out of every inch of this entire room and inside the tent with bleach and water. My last indoor was 4 months ago and right at the end of flower I got my first case of spider mites, but having nothing to chomp on in the last 4 months, i'm thinking they have diminished a bit, hopefully for good. (I'll still be hitting the entire room with foggers and sprays.)

Reason I ask this, is because I personally believe that pollen is much more hardened than people think. I believe pollen can still be viable for some time and a long time at that. A couple years ago I was in the same situation had seedy buds in the same room drying and once my girls started flowering they were seeded here and there. No hermies, no males, nothing...

So what do you think? What would you do? I damn sure dont want seeds, not in that way, I'll make my own if I decide I want seeds...

Hopefully i'll get an answer to this.

I have been greatly saddened lately at the lack of help on this forum. I mean I know America is all fucked up now and no one helps anyone anymore, but this is the place were stoners dwell... The good kind hearted folk, but I have posted several threads lately and tried like hell to get help with no success other than one reply, guy did the best he could on that reply I guess... Hell at least he tried.

Hoping for the best!

 

[Coughie]

Water inactivates pollen, so if you're really super worried about it, just make sure you clean really well and you should be as good as you can expect to be.

From there, its just checking/changing your shoes, showering/changing your clothes, and keeping others who have grows away from your grow.

Hope that helps a bit

 

[MountainBudz]

Thanks Coughie, I knew that water deactivates pollen, everytime i've ever gotten and removed a hermie, I mist everything including the walls, the buds of other plants and just every inch of the room.

I'm worried about the shit flying and floating around in particles in the room and getting places I wont see it, (not the tent) but inside the room the tent is in and then once all the fans and shit start running shit will start getting blown around every where lol.

As far as other growers, I don't have anything to worry about there. If pollen gets on me from someone else, I sure won't know who it is. I tent to stay away from growers while i'm growing and around here where i'm from in Eastern Ky, you will have a hard time finding anyone that admits to growing lol.

Thank you bro for your help!

 

[Coughie]

Well if you have hemp growers or something in the area, and a fresh air intake, you'll probably want some sort of filter on it.

In order for it to worry us, it's gotta be pollen from the Cannabis family - so its either drug or hemp.

I work in a normal size bedroom, so its not over and above to take a spray bottle full of water and mist down a good portion of the room when I'm working on removing or dealing with plants and pollen.

I turn the fans down before I disturb anything with male flowers, and fill the spray bottle up lol

If the intake is filtered (mines not, its just passive indoor air though) and you clean it really good the first time.. Any accidental seeds are most likely going to come from something of your own doing.

Nothing is ever 100% clean or sterile under normal circumstances, so stuff happens, but by-and-large, thats about how it's gonna work for something small scale.

 

[fonzee]

Water doesn't deactivate pollen, it immobilize pollen.
I like to clean the tent with some soap and water using a towel and dry it well with a dehumidifier.
The rest of the room get sprayed with water.

 

[Coughie]

Can you clarify the difference, please?
I dont like to guess/assume, so I ask..

 

[fonzee]

Between deactivation and immobilization?
Deactivation means it can not pollinate the female plant any more
Immobilization means it can not move. But you can spray pollen in water suspension on a female and it will pollinate the buds.

 

[St. Phatty]

Reason I ask this, is because I personally believe that pollen is much more hardened than people think. I believe pollen can still be viable for some time and a long time at that.

I think some pollen is more rugged & long lasting. Not sure I'm willing to pay the price of doing that experiment though. I'm tired of smoking seeded bud !

I have used a room to do a pollination (Males in Room with Females for about 2 weeks), then removed the males and started some new females.

Keeping the male plants in a separate closet. On the next flowering cycle I might move a dedicated female to the "Boys Town" closet.

Then after a few days put the girl in the shower and run the water hot, not directly on her, but to create lots of humidity - and hopefully 'ground' any pollen.

Neither of those are examples of stray pollen, though.

I had the carpets cleaned in both rooms "What's that brown stain on the floor ?" It's compost tea, what am I gonna say ?


I think the pollen is a little like smoke. Smoke hides in fabrics (beds, curtains).

I don't like my house to smell smokey so I usually smoke in the kitchen, next to an exhaust fan.

I'd like to smoke in bed, but I don't want my bedroom to have the Major Rasta smell. Then I realize, that's impossible - not if I got blankets and clothes in there.

Basically, a clean room (as in, Silicon Valley clean room) approach would be the answer.

For both me wanting to smoke indoors, and the pollen management (to an extent).

All smooth metal and plastic surfaces. Nowhere for the smoke (or pollen) to hide.


You got to take pollen seriously, it can really fvck up the workings of bud production.

Yes that was kind of a roundabout explanation
and possibly an example of stoned thinking

 

[Tonygreen]

When pollen comes in contact with water mold grows and kills it very very very quickly, I always thought.

 

[fonzee]

When pollen comes in contact with water mold grows and kills it very very very quickly, I always thought.

Quite quickly, but it will also depend of temperature and how long it was exposed to water before the water film evaporated.
In big masses - it is true, but for individual pollen flying around it is harder to form a mold colony.

 

[HuffnPufferfish]

you dont want carpet for other reasons either, at least put a plastic liner in your grow