Hermie Or Accidental Pollination?

[SativaKidd]

Hey guys, new to the forum would really like some help.

Have an indoor grow going on right now, around 7 plants upstairs. Before this grow I had 7 downstairs with a male that I intentionally collected the pollen to create new strains.

The downstairs grow was done around a few weeks after I started the upstairs grow. I sanitized everything accordingly when I was done.

My plants upstairs around the 4 week mark then showed signs of pollination and I do see seeds on them now. Could I have not done a good enough job of cleaning my area, and small particles of pollen attach to pistils causing the pollination? Is pollen really that strong?My house is small and I have to go downstairs often for laundry etc, right where the breeding grow was. If I go in this area and then into my upstairs grow room, could it cause pollination? Thought I sanitized the best I could!

But here’s an other thought I have. Could my plants have went herm without me knowing? I never have had this problem before. I attached some pictures if you all could check them out. I don’t see the “bananas” that I was looking for. Anything that looks like a light color leaf is just a leaf when I look at it. Please let me know what you think happened!

 

[Budderton]

Pull out a few seed and examine them. If it's big and nice and dark, then the mom was probably pollinated early in the flower cycle, judging from the stage of ripeness their at now. If it's pale and immature, could be from a latter occurring manner, or single male flower on your mom's. It's easy to miss a single male flower and very easy to drag pollen into your flower room on clothes/hair/body ect.

 

[SativaKidd]

They’re all still very pale as the plants are young still.

 

[Budderton]

They’re all still very pale as the plants are young still.

Will be really hard to tell, one way or the other, unless you collect and grow out said seeds. My instincts tells me that if you can see the seeds on the outside of the flower then probably a later pollination caused by a herm issue. Seeds from a very early pollination are usually held closer to the main stem, where the calyx and pistils are first forming. But you never really know till you try them.

 

[SativaKidd]

I actually noticed them first on lower branches close to the leaves first before any on the main buds. I wonder if watering them if my sandal had pollen on it, or my shirt did or something.

It would be very disappointing if this generation hermied… would have to scrap the whole generation. After all these years of growing I never had a herm prob! Ugh.

 

[xtsho]

I don't see any seeds.

 

[SativaKidd]

I’m going to post some pictures later today or tomorrow. The entire crop got hit, I see em all swollen all over. Kinda pissed.

 

[SativaKidd]