Good afternoon (evening) everybody. I was wondering if I could ask for you help. I finally got my female Jackhammer, she's very sativa slender and just wrapped up week 3 of 13 at 12/12. I have the pollen from the male I had and am ready to use it. I want to choose a couple of the lower buds and "spluff" them only. I think I mean spluff. What I can't find is how to do it. Do I paint brush or plastic bag it? Also when to do it. I know it's average 4 weeks for seed to mature so it should be done around week 3 to 4 at the latest, but if it's a heavy haze with 13 weeks, should I wait until week 7 or 8? I'm ready to go but it's been a little uphill getting here and I'd like to get it right the first time so if anyone can offer some help or point me to a good read, I'd appreciate it very much
Thanks Duchie.
Hey Duchie, don't bother with the bag, I don't think you want that many seeds, plus they can be a pain as they create a lot of humidity. Tag the bud you want to use. Remove the plant from your flower room, use the lower buds, for a number of reasons, 1 easy to keep an eye on, 2 small so you will get a handfull of beans, not a million. 3 if you spluff and by accident a puff of pollen suddenly goes off, then there will be limited contamination.
Use a small paint brush, as a tip try to brush the bud you are going to spluff first, this will create a bit of stickyness on the brush, not too much as you don't want a whole brushfull of pollen. Then its a case of carefully apply. Within a day or so the hairs will start to crinkle back. FDD posted a video or pictorial that I saw some time ago. but it;s fairly straight forward. good luck and let us know if you got any more questions.
peace, dst