Everyone, please bow your head and lets have a moment of silence......
Plant number 7 has died today due to a brutal beheading as a result of being caugh in frivolous sexual pollenation attempts on 7 other females today, non consensual!
Ok...lol...
On a serious note, today's story:
I got home from work and decided to do a defoliation and lolipopping of the girls because I noticed there was quite a bit of underbrush that was not needed and in the middle of the canopy the light penetration was not happening because of so many fan leaves. So I decided since the buds were sitting nicely and now in full swing I would get it over with. While I was trimming off foliage I noticed a leaf that had white spots all over it, and I was like..."oh no...not spidermites" so I carefully removed the leaf, used my flashlight and 30x lupe and inspected the underside of the bud, no eggs, no mites.... and I think to myself "WTF?"
So I flip the leaf over and all the spots are gone, and now I am thinking to myself, was I seeing things after a long work week or what? How did the spots just disappear. So I discard the leaf and look back in the tent and see a few leaves that have white patches on them, which then I thought, "damn, powdery mildew"... so I grabbed the leaves and as I pulled them away to cut them off, one snapped off which shook the plant. All of a sudden I see a cloud of what looks like dust envelop the plant and spread through the canopy. I'm again thinking to myself "damn, well there goes spores everywhere, I'm in for a ride" but then I look at the leaves that I pulled off closely, and the white spots are gone... and then.... dun dun dun...
It hits me... pollen!!!! So I start looking closer and closer at my plants and realize that plant #7 is the culprit, and even though it showed nicely growing flowers, it also developed balls under each flower set/budsite and they were open.... spreading pollen on the leaves which I though was mites and then PM... I was relieved in a way it wasn't the latter, but now I have a whole new issue. How to remove this plant without spreading any more pollen. So stem by stem, section by section I cut away 1' branches and carefully carried them to a bag and placed them in the bag..after the plant was completely in the bag and cut down I sealed it and was thinking.. ok now I have a tent of females that just received the magic dust.. how am I going to take care of this...
So I hit up a buddy and asked him since he has a lot of experience with seeds, pollinating and such and he told me 'water' was the answer, spray the plants really good with water as it will destroy the pollen. So before I got to spaying all the plants I decided to go 1 by 1 and check each plant closely for any pollen sacks and so far it looks like #7 was the only one..whew... so I continued with my defoliation and lolipopping to open up the canopy as well as get rid of all the branches that are not receiving enough light. After I was done with this I loaded up my pressure sprayer and hosed the girls down using about 2 gallons of water. I used R/O water and since I didn't want to spray 0ppm water on them I added a tiny bit of fertilizer to up the PPM and give them a little N-p-k and Ca love as well as neutralize the pollen. I made shure to cover the tops, the bottoms the ins and the outs and sprayed them very very thorough to make sure I got all possible pollen that drifted...
well hopefully case closed and things will be fine but I will have to keep a real close eye from now until harvest to make sure I don't see any more hermies or pollen sacks appear. I am curious though if I will get seeds, which wouldn't be a bad thing, but also not a good thing trying to find the right pheno. I wouldn't mind a bunch of seeds though since most likely the original was self pollinated, because I would have seeds of this one with each pheno, but I was hoping to do that later after harvest when I know what is what... well overall I guess I really got good penetration now with 7 plants in the tent instead of 8
Here is the pollen... (sort of looks like PM doesn't it or spider mite damage?)
Here is the photo I posted just the other day... I never every noticed the pollen sacks but the photo from the other day shows them there....
Before defoliation
Here is the plants after defoliation.
I've had enough hermies to know. 
