Makin' Some Beans (Blueberry Fem)

Feel free to post away! A journal with no convo is boring.

I got a cut of Blueberry that I really like, so I want to make some feminized beans so I can grow it again down the road.


I took a cutting a couple weeks into flower (folks call this monster cropping) so I would get a bushy one to take cuttings from.

Here is the mother (back right) and the cuttings (front)


Now I have 4 of the cuttings growing out.



I put the 'mother' outside in the sun and am hitting it with Bio Silver colloidal silver (cheapest one I could find that I heard works)


I plan on getting some male flowers going, then chopping off a branch or two every couple days and shaking it around in the tent to distribute the pollen.

I should end up with 4 seeded blueberry plants chock-full of feminized copies, so that I can enjoy it for years to come without having to keep a mother in perpetual veg.

Let me know any tips/advice you have on the process and I'll try to keep current pics coming!

Clones are coming along great - I've yet to see any male flowers from the CS spray so I'm not sure how that'll work out.

Nice, that blueberry looks delicious.

Thanks! Being in WA, and BB being one of my favs, I've sampled it from many producers. I'm lucky to have this cut and its up there with the best - that's why I want some beans for a future cross and just to grow out.

Here's how the 'male' looks. It hasn't shown any signs of transitioning yet as far as I can see. The CS is spotting the leaves and the female flowers are dying off so it's doing something at least.

Hi I'm a noob doing my first grow. Autos.
Im fascinated by the genetics and breeding.
So you like the blueberry strain, and grew from seed?
You choose a female that you like ( in veg) make a clone and grow it out?
You can be as short with me as you like. Lol
And why do yo like bb so much?

No prob!

I like BB because of the aroma and effect. It's been around a long time so there are many variations/cuts of it.

I started with a clone from a dispensary, but you could do the same with any plant.

I took a cutting a couple weeks after I started flowering the clone.

Then I grew that out and took multiple cuttings of it so is have several plants with identical genetics.

I am spraying the plant I took cuttings from with colloidal silver as I induce flowering. This will (hopefully) cause make flowers to form on the female plant. Having this pollen will let me essentially pollinate a plant with its genetic copy, creating seeds that should be very similar to the original and all female.

Hope that helps!

innerG said:

No prob!

I like BB because of the aroma and effect. It's been around a long time so there are many variations/cuts of it.

I started with a clone from a dispensary, but you could do the same with any plant.

I took a cutting a couple weeks after I started flowering the clone.

Then I grew that out and took multiple cuttings of it so is have several plants with identical genetics.

I am spraying the plant I took cuttings from with colloidal silver as I induce flowering. This will (hopefully) cause make flowers to form on the female plant. Having this pollen will let me essentially pollinate a plant with its genetic copy, creating seeds that should be very similar to the original and all female.

Hope that helps!

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Some people have had success focusing the spray on the bud site(s) itself.

It will be interesting to see how many days it takes the female you're working on to "turn" male.

What is the PPM rating of the colloidal silver you're using?

Good luck in your efforts.

Rob Roy said:

Some people have had success focusing the spray on the bud site(s) itself.

It will be interesting to see how many days it takes the female you're working on to "turn" male.

What is the PPM rating of the colloidal silver you're using?

Good luck in your efforts.

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Yeah after the first couple of days I've been reading and have focused on the new growth areas.

I'm using 50ppm CS

No male flowers yet, it's really just starting to flower. The indoor ones are stretching and blowing up though! They're going to be big enough I may only pollinate one of them

innerG said:

Yeah after the first couple of days I've been reading and have focused on the new growth areas.

I'm using 50ppm CS

No male flowers yet, it's really just starting to flower. The indoor ones are stretching and blowing up though! They're going to be big enough I may only pollinate one of them

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If it is at all possible hold back a clone(s) of your "targeted for pollen girl" in veg. and consider putting that clone into flower 10 -14 days from starting to spray the silver, as a safety precaution.

3-4 weeks is about the time to anticipate producing pollen after beginning to spray, but some are more stubborn than others so there's no fixed time or guarantees.

Rob Roy said:

If it is at all possible hold back a clone(s) of your "targeted for pollen girl" in veg.

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Covered! I can pick this pot up (3gal) out of the hole for light dep if I need to. It's one of the cuttings that just took way longer to root so it's leaves took a hit, but it'll bounce back.

subbed, cant wait to see the results!

what breeder was the cut taken from?

William Shatter said:

what breeder was the cut taken from?

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The dispensary said it was Dutch Passion

Still not seeing any pollen, just killing off the female flowers. I may try a bottle of 240ppm

Just keep spraying as often as you can, those flowers will turn to balls soon enough. I started spraying mine 2 weeks prior to flip and it still took 5 weeks for balls to appear, then another 2 weeks for pollen to drop. If you up it to 240ppm CS, your plants won't like it.

They're blowin up! I'm really gonna be pushing that 3x3 lol

Sorry for the crappy color in the pics, I've switched over to HPS for flower now

Still a' sprayin

Clones blowin up:

Not bad for April outdoors in the PNW!


Still not showing balls

The silver spray alone is going to force it to flower? I thought you had to keep the plant in flowering timings as you sprayed the silver.