Hanzy4200
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As my final harvests are coming to a close, I decided it was about time to start taking down a few of my bagged flower heads. They have all gone brown, but the stems are still partially green and the seed pods slightly moist. I'm preferring to do it this way so that I can remove the bags, dried flowers, gunk, ect, without spilling seeds everywhere. I'll let the cleaned up pods fully dry for a few weeks more. That aside, I had noticed some time ago that the aphids were going crazy in some of my bags. There was really nothing I could do to kill them that I knew of. Now, they are all dead and basically look like dirt particles. My main question is, could this adversely effect the seed quality? Is it possible for aphids to taint flowers with pollen from other strains? Out of 3 bags cut down, 2 were infested. The only difference I've seen is that the non-infested pods look bigger and fuller, due to their energy not being sapped.