Hermie pollination, good or bad?

Only herm I've had was genetic - a skirt of white hairs and balls beneath. (Strawberry Kush, fem seeds)

BUT - I did intentionally make seeds on my last grow - so I have some experience in cleaning up after (a crap-ton of) pollen.
Two big males spewing up a 4x4 with 2 females for about 6 weeks.

The level of pollen was astounding - Probably a half pound of pollen & dead flowers on the floor as the boys did their thing.
- I was like the Scarface of pollen for a minute there...mini-mountains of yellow powder everywhere.
There was a thick, yellow-ochre cloud that wafted up every time I opened the tent - even though I cut the circulation fans once the boys started spewing. (remove them next time...)
The funk in the coed tent was different from the sorority tent as well, a distinct floral musky overtone from the male flower clusters.

Cleaned up first with a 3 water wipe downs - ceiling, lights, fans, walls, furniture & floors, top to bottom.
- It took that long to not see yellow on the wipes.
Followed up by loading 92% Iso alcohol into a spray bottle and then misting / wiping everything down as above. (WEAR PPE!)
Repeated in select areas - nooks crannies, circulation fans were problematic.

Water wiped the walls of the lung room that the tent is in.

I'm in the middle of converting that same room into a dedicated grow-space; and a 2x4 is on week 2 flowering in there right now - so we'll know if my cleaning was thorough enough pretty soon. (been LAZY on my journal...)
 
I just collected my first real pollen from a cherry diesel, euphoria and a magnum auto. I mixed with cooked flour after drying for about 3 days in rice. Then separated with tweezers. I am still collecting from them. I have about 1 week left. I am storing in foil packets and then in a small container like a photo film container full of rice and then in a thermos full of rice in the freezer.?
 
Wow! I just saw your post. Went around it somehow. That's a ton of pollen. I was growing a plant outside across the yard from my main grow. The one plant hermied and i didn't know it until after i had moved the main 5 stains inside and THEN, I dried the finished hermie right outside the tent but in the same shop . So i am pretty sure my 5 stains got pollinated by the hermie, think it was a white widow?? But I'm hoping the seeds won't hermie?? My diet Durban is heavily seeded. The others are moderate to none.
 
The forced pollen on the autos was done inside a different room until right before they started showing, then i moved them out after cutting the hermie
 
Green wiggler said:
Wow! I just saw your post. Went around it somehow. That's a ton of pollen. I was growing a plant outside across the yard from my main grow. The one plant hermied and i didn't know it until after i had moved the main 5 stains inside and THEN, I dried the finished hermie right outside the tent but in the same shop . So i am pretty sure my 5 stains got pollinated by the hermie, think it was a white widow?? But I'm hoping the seeds won't hermie?? My diet Durban is heavily seeded. The others are moderate to none.
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I'm not an expert at all, but I think that the hermie trait has the potential to follow - how strong will depend on a lot of factors that others know more about than I do,

FWIW, my genetic herm seeded the whole 4x4 when I did it accidentally. I used the seeds, but also modified my light schedule to a 11.5 / 12.5 and never hermmed again -- but that could very well be genetics and my lighting sched is just bro-science.
- While I admit I held on to my hermie seeds - I ditched them as soon as I had a decent collection of seeds without a known hermie trait being passed down.
 
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