Pollinating female

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delerious

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Hi. Check out my girl. Her buds are getting bigger but not fatter and she has this strange powder all over her leaves :)

Seriously now, that's the Satori I want to use to do some selective pollination - I have a Satori female (want to continue the genetics) and a Chronics Revenge (white widow x indica) and MP5K (AK x Afghani) , the latter 2 I want to see what I get for crosses. I only want to hit a few lower branches, so I'm going to remove the females from the growing room and hit them with a little pollen and then give them a good foliar spray before returning them to the flower room. A few quick questions:

1. Is the pollen that's already dropped still good (just started later today).
2. How long will the pollen remain viable - before being collected, I have a film cannister and desicant for after I collect.
3. How long should I wait after hitting the girls with pollen before spraying them down to return them to the flower room?

I'd like the pollination to work, but I want to minimize the chances of random pollen floating around - don't want to hit one bud and end up with an entire plant seeded. There's no air moving around where the male is, but I have fans going when I get back to the flower room......Have to remember to tell my girlfriend not to be checking the male out and then going to check the females. Thanks
 

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I have no idea how long pollen is viable after dropping.

I wouldn't spray them at all.

You can take a q-tip, collect some pollen on it and rub it on the female flowers.
 
A 1=pollen usaully stays viable for up to a year if it is stored correctly:!:-(cool dark and dry)after it has fallen from the plant it usually has a life expectancy that is dependant on its surrounding/enviroment...usually 1-10 days(dry air keeps pollen viable for ages),but if its humid.....u get my point..

A 2=ive done this to mine and i left them for two days along with the male,then sorted them back into the flowering room. just to make sure everything had set properly...it all depends on urself mate...but whatever u do....enjoy the experience;-)
 
A 1=pollen usaully stays viable for up to a year if it is stored correctly:!:-(cool dark and dry)after it has fallen from the plant it usually has a life expectancy that is dependant on its surrounding/enviroment...usually 1-10 days(dry air keeps pollen viable for ages),but if its humid.....u get my point..

A 2=ive done this to mine and i left them for two days along with the male,then sorted them back into the flowering room. just to make sure everything had set properly...it all depends on urself mate...but whatever u do....enjoy the experience;-)

hope this helped any;-) peace
 
Thanks. Some of what I read said to wait 4 to 5 days to make sure it took. I'm not sure I wanted to wait that long - there's light in the other room, but it isn't sealed for leaks (incoming sunlight) and I didn't want to mess up their light schedule too much. I have those small hobby paint brushes I'll dip in the pollen and tap to get the pollen to fall on the budsites (with maybe a slight breath to get it to fall toward the pistils).
 
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