Rob Roy
Well-Known Member
If you're considering pollenating to make a few seeds and don't want the male to indiscriminately start banging all your girls, you could try this.
Wait until the male has apparent, but immature male flowers developing. Cut a few branches and place them in a vase, jar etc. with water just like you would with cut flowers. The vase being small can be kept indoors away from the girls. Put the vase(s) with the forming male parts inside in an area he can't spew on the ladies and watch for the male flowers to mature. Collect pollen when it's ready and use a q-tip or tiny paint brush to dust the females you want seeded. I always use a colored bread twist tie to mark the pollenated branch. When the pollen takes, you'll know, since the pistils should darken in a couple days and seeds will begin to form. In 40 days or so, you'll have plenty of seeds.
You could cut the most prominent male branches (usually the tops) first and keep the remaining male plant alive, so you can repeat harvest the middle and lower branches which sometimes develop male parts a little later than the tops. Don't get lax though, males are sneaky, any doubts about your ability to keep an eye on him and I'd say kill him. Good luck.
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