How / Where do you grow your males?

TubeAndJar

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Do you have your own special way of growing your male plants?
Do you grow it in a box?
Do you grow it in a tent?
Outside in a field?
Anything you do to prevent your males from pollinating your females indoors?
Show some pics and precautions you take so we can all learn what TO DO and what NOT to do when trying to make their own seeds. Ordering those damn things are expensive so we all might as well make free ones safely.
 

farmasensist

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When i get a male i want to use pollen from, i move it into my bathtub and put some females around it and let them do their thing, then trash the male when the females are pollenated and i leave the females there to finish up instead of putting them back in the flower room.

It works for me, i can still use the seperate shower and you have to go through my bedroom to get to the bathroom so people dont ever go in there and the bathroom exhaust blows most of the stink out.

And one time i used a phototron in my closet. I never tried just pollinating one branch it seems like too much work and too much risk of contaminating everything, id rather cut a clone and seed the whole thing.
 

Thefarmer12

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I'm relatively new to breeding but have been cultivating for years as has my family. Since cultivation is so important I'm overly cautious and keep my males in an entirely different location, when I'm ready I take collected pollen and brush it onto the branches in a separate room. Wait a few days and the pollen on the females branches is entirely stuck to the female and going nowhere so it's safe to move her back in the room.

Not saying you have to be entirely this cautious but if it's possible it don't hurt,

Just remember, male pollen can travel a mile or more outside. It will have no issue traveling through air ducts in your home.
 
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