Can i accidentally pollinate my plants by smoking swag?

PainWrek

Active Member
so when i was puffing down on some mid grade b/s last night, i thought of a question i hadn't heard or seen.

can i accidentally pollinate my plants from the bananas in the shit i'm smoking now? the weed is dried, so the pollen should be inactive right? can i break up a joint with some bananas and carry the pollen to my grow room?
 

captiankush

Well-Known Member
so when i was puffing down on some mid grade b/s last night, i thought of a question i hadn't heard or seen.

can i accidentally pollinate my plants from the bananas in the shit i'm smoking now? the weed is dried, so the pollen should be inactive right? can i break up a joint with some bananas and carry the pollen to my grow room?
If you are smoking males....not even gonna go there...

Yes, if pollen was on your clothes, hands, etc it could be transferred to the pistils of a flowering female and be pollinated by it.

No, if you smoke the pollen it will not pollinate a female, nor will the smoke pollinate.

The only way is through direct contact to the pollen. The most possible way for this to happen is through you touching the pollen or allowing it to come into contact with your general area and then bringing it into your flowering room.

CK
 

PainWrek

Active Member
yea i'm assuming this swag is hermie bud from cross pollination right? minimal seeds but occasionally i stumble across a banana or two.

so even though these bananas have been allowed to dry for like half a year (probably more), they can still pollinate my female crop?

i always thought the pollen needed to be stored and kept fresh in order to stay active. am i wrong? can a two year old banana pollinate?
 

doc111

Well-Known Member
yea i'm assuming this swag is hermie bud from cross pollination right? minimal seeds but occasionally i stumble across a banana or two.

so even though these bananas have been allowed to dry for like half a year (probably more), they can still pollinate my female crop?

i always thought the pollen needed to be stored and kept fresh in order to stay active. am i wrong? can a two year old banana pollinate?
Highly unlikely. Pollen loses viability pretty quickly when exposed to moisture, light and or heat. Time also takes it's toll on pollen.
 

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
when you say that you run into a banana in your schwag.. are you reffering to seeds or actually pollen sacks? i have been smoking weed for a long time and i cant say that i have ever seen a pollen sac on one of my buds, but i have run across the ocassional seed in some lowgrade weed... lol...
i was just wondering if you were talking about pollen or seeds?
 

PainWrek

Active Member
when you say that you run into a banana in your schwag.. are you reffering to seeds or actually pollen sacks? i have been smoking weed for a long time and i cant say that i have ever seen a pollen sac on one of my buds, but i have run across the ocassional seed in some lowgrade weed... lol...
i was just wondering if you were talking about pollen or seeds?
pollen sacks right? slim tiny little yellow bastards that look like bananas? isn't this male pollen?
 

mkay420

Active Member
the "banana" he is talking about is a male flower that sticks out of a female bud... hermie.... and can produce pollen. it is called a banana because it can be lighter green or yellowish in color and has an appearance similar to a banana.
 

anberlinaddict

Well-Known Member
so when i was puffing down on some mid grade b/s last night, i thought of a question i hadn't heard or seen.

can i accidentally pollinate my plants from the bananas in the shit i'm smoking now? the weed is dried, so the pollen should be inactive right? can i break up a joint with some bananas and carry the pollen to my grow room?
hahaaha sorry but god damnnnnnnnnn i laughed hard.
 

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
i know what a male banana is.. but have u ever seen a banana on a bud that you were smoking? i don't ever recall seeing one.. i would think that by the time bud is dried and cured any banna's would be wayy shriveled up and beyond recognition, no?
 
HAA! so now im curious. can the mids i got in front of me, that have like 3 seeds in the whole track, carry any pollen to my plants? I dont have any of these "bananas" in these mids, and why would you smoke a male any way?
 

THCoso

New Member
I saw this, and the science nerd decided to find out. I have some Blue Dream that I harvested in May, spent 5 weeks drying/curing then placed in a freezer until I need it. This specific plant I had to pull 5 days before I planned along with a Gorilla Glue due to nannars. I made a video of them at the time to send to a friend for a laugh. In the video I pull a few off and show they are slammed full of pollen (at least the Blue Dream ones). However, I have only found 3 ripe seeds, lots of hard, white knots and tons of pistols obviously starting their conversion into what will become the tap root. Exactly what you would expect from a small banana pollination that was stopped in time--lots of "not seeds" and very few fully ripe seeds with normally dispersed stages in between.

I saw this post cause I had 2 fully-ripe, well-developed seeds come from a Jamaican strawberry kush plant I harvested 10 days ago. While trimming, they fell out and bounced on in the tray. But there is no sign of any other seeds in any other level of development, nor is there a nanner located behind the seed, nor any other signs of any pollen source. Moreover, the rest of the plant nor the other 2 plants I harvested had any signs of seeds in any stage of development. These 2 seeds pollen source is a mystery. I did have some males and early-flower herms about 7-8 weeks ago. I grew my first plant in 96, I know what a male looks like loooooooong before pollen sacks appear. So, that cant be the source. The only thing I can figure is---I packed a bowel while working with that specific cola for what ever reason, the dry plant I crushed with my fingers left either some Blue Dream or Gorilla Glue fem pollen made its way to that flower.

So, to find out for sure, I took a few hours last night with tweezers, flowers and plastic bags. I needed to remove some branches whose flowers are not receiving enough light but instead, I took blue dream and gorilla glue bannas, placed in different plastic bags, then placed the bags over an entire branch. Then, zip tied the bottom of the bag to prevent cross-contamination.

I'm testing 2 pollen sources on 3 different strains that are 6 weeks 3 days since flip. I will publish the results.
 
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