First time doing so…
Main tents are in one “room”, but the love shack is in an adjacent “room”, no door, just a partial wall with doorway cutout w/ panda film drape door. Photo tent is now zipped all the time because of photoperiod, but auto tent (which is flowering), I intended a seed run with. Love Shack is also zipped 24x7. I am trying to keep the main colas in the auto tent (3x3) unseeded and do just the lower branches, so far looks good, but time will tell. Any seeds I get there I will be happy with either way.
I’ve been rather delicate collecting pollen until today. Last few days it was a dozen or so sacs a day, individually shaken / pulled. Today I did a much more vigorous shake, still stem by stem, but I could absolutely see the pollen floating. The only fan in the love shack is a 4" exhaust fan pulling from the tent and going into a carbon filter. Doubt that filters out much of the pollen, you’d seriously need a hepa filter, but I’m sure it takes some out of the air. And with no other fan in the 2x2, the air flow is enough from the 4" exhaust to not really cause pollen to fly with a few vents open. If my outside wall access was different, I am sure that I would be venting that outside and have far fewer potential issues… Still trying to figure out the best layout / use of space here…
I guess time will tell, do the main colas get seeded, or remain seed free? I’m betting at least the random one or two, likely more, but not like the purposely pollenated branches…
If I was really concerned about controlling the pollen, I would probably move the love shack to the main floor, and shower after working in their tent. For now, its a seed run, and by the time the photos start flowering, my pollenation will be done and I doubt any remaining unseen pollen will be viable by then.