Are Light Leaks a Problem during a Seed Run?

Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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I plan on doing a seed run in a small tent I normally use for veg. Its not very light tight and I can see small light leaks from the outside. Nothing major. It's in a room I use for other things so the lights outside the tent would be on at times. Never worried about it for veg.

Will the light leaks cause problems for plants that have been pollinated?
 
Silky Shagsalot

Silky Shagsalot

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i'm a light leak fanatic, lol! i go to great lengths to make sure i have none. from everything i've heard, in veg it's not so important, but in flower, it's a different story. it is something that can be avoided, so why take the chance? as for pollinated plants, i've never heard that their being pollinated made plants more sensitive to leaks....
 
Ibex

Ibex

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It could possibly cause the seeded female plant to produce herm nanners and then reseed herself and you inadvertently take the herm seeds for the intended cross from the male.
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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Silky Shagsalot said:
i'm a light leak fanatic, lol! i go to great lengths to make sure i have none. from everything i've heard, in veg it's not so important, but in flower, it's a different story. it is something that can be avoided, so why take the chance? as for pollinated plants, i've never heard that their being pollinated made plants more sensitive to leaks....
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I could drape something over the tent but being lazy I was hoping that small random leaks wouldn't matter with pollinated plants.

Ibex said:
It could possibly cause the seeded female plant to produce herm nanners and then reseed herself and you inadvertently take the herm seeds for the intended cross from the male.
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I was wondering about hermies. Would the plant bother to produce male flowers when it's already pollinated?
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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Yep thats what I did and didn't have a problem but I still worried about it. LoL

This next grow will be my last till next fall and the veg tent would be empty once things go into flower. So I figure it would be much easier to just leave the seeded plants there and use the flower rm space for others. If the leaks will cause problems I'll just have to cover the tent. Thx
 
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little butch

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For the price of a roll of black super tape, I'd patch the tent, or at least get some black poly and cover it. If you start allowing poor practices into your grows, things can go south too easy and you won't know which ignored standard caused it....but then I'm told I am too much of a perfectionist. Good enough, just isn't my goal. I don't mean to sound like your mother, but you make your own luck.. . I hope everything turns out good for you. Peace & be kind.
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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little butch said:
For the price of a roll of black super tape, I'd patch the tent, or at least get some black poly and cover it. If you start allowing poor practices into your grows, things can go south too easy and you won't know which ignored standard caused it....but then I'm told I am too much of a perfectionist. Good enough, just isn't my goal. I don't mean to sound like your mother, but you make your own luck.. . I hope everything turns out good for you. Peace & be kind.
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Yeah I hear you and when I 1st started growing I put a lot of thought into making the flower rm light tight.

My main question here is if the plants are pollinated and completed their basic goal of survial can they be treated a little differently as far a light leaks go?

I can just throw a large blanket over the tent and run the intake through a couple of 90s. I would experiment if I didn't care about the clone of a nice Bodhi SSDD I want to seed.
 
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little butch

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Truthfully, they will probably be fine....but with my luck, Murphy's law is a foregone conclusion. I know if I had some Bodhi running, I'd be careful. Good luck, whatever you do. Peace & be kind.
 
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Bear Country

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Brokeoldbloke said:
I could drape something over the tent but being lazy I was hoping that small random leaks wouldn't matter with pollinated plants.



I was wondering about hermies. Would the plant bother to produce male flowers when it's already pollinated?
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A flowering plant is a flowering plant...even if it is pollenated. Light leaks are a NO NO period. If you stress that plant because of light leaks it is completly possible to make it go apeshit and throw out male flowers thus pollenating the remainder of the plant. Absolutly no light leaks period!!!!
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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little butch said:
Truthfully, they will probably be fine....but with my luck, Murphy's law is a foregone conclusion. I know if I had some Bodhi running, I'd be careful. Good luck, whatever you do. Peace & be kind.
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Bear Country said:
A flowering plant is a flowering plant...even if it is pollenated. Light leaks are a NO NO period. If you stress that plant because of light leaks it is completly possible to make it go apeshit and throw out male flowers thus pollenating the remainder of the plant. Absolutly no light leaks period!!!!
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Thx I'll take care of the leaks before flower.
 
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bongbrain

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little butch said:
Damn perfectionists think they can rule the world....eh Bear?? Peace.
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better a OCD perfectionist then an idiot with hermies, stray pollen, and all around shit plants. OCD counts for everything. lose 5 grows with seeing a plant go dead south for not covering that one little thing you forgot. bbxww tons of ganja gone in less than a week. and it was fucking massive.
 
Sand4x105

Sand4x105

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Yea, and then if it pollinated itself, those seeds would be "Feminized" and sheiot... nobody wants those things.....
 
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