this is a post regarding what to do with a male once found, its a response to the person asking whether or not they should keep it to get seeds. Are you familiar with this method? If so, do you know how long the bag is supposed to stay on?
well, if it helps... one thing that helped weigh my decision is that if you want to get seeds, and decent smoke, your pest bet is to completely isolate the male, collect pollen, and only release the pollen on a couple lower branches of the female. I have seen this work before, there is a specific method to do it, so that the rest of your female buds are sensimillia (non-seeded buds). I didn't want to donate the time and energy into making sure the male/s were completely isolated (I considered just making the Forbidden Treasure that turned out to be male, into a houseplant (but with the A/C on and the wind here I think that the pollen would have spread to the entire crop), so I didn't keep them. I made brownies out of the leaves, and gave them away at a BBQ (only to verified patients of course,
. Basically my understanding is that you collect the pollen, dispose of the rest of the male plant, put the pollen into an air tight bag, and lightly secure the bag over the portion of the female plant that you want to seed. You leave it there until you can no longer see the yellow pollen in the bag, and carefully remove it after like 12-24 hours (not 100% sure on how long you are supposed to leave the bag on for, sorry). I might be mistaken, and you might have to leave the bag on until the seeds are mature and you harvest the branch/branches that you have seeded. I will look into it more, just to be sure about how long to leave the bag on. Like I said, I have seen it done before... just a long time ago... lol, learned it from this real old school cat that does something a little bit similar to what I am going to be doing once everything is completely set up... he started doing it again too, as we had all noticed that after about the 4th-6th generation of cloning, the plants become less resilient, vigorous, and the bud less dense, stinky, and stony.
Eventually I will be using this method, hopefully with the seedlings that I have going now (that is if I can get the wife to donate our walk in shower, lol)... as long as your happy though... it doesn't seem like people are very much into giving a whole lot of feedback or info in the last few days... don't worry about the rep, its not a big deal to me at all... but the gesture is greatly appreciated, and the comment.
