Pollination, what do I need to know?

Kalebaiden said:
I have the pollen, I have the bud site I want to pollinate.

I'm also having reservations about my skill level in doing this.

This one action could benefit me or fuck up the whole grow.

How do I segregate a pollinated branch when I have 10x the recommended air flow in my tiny tent?
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1. Shut off your airflow
2. pollinate your bud site....carefully
3. wait for about 2 hrs
4. spray water on the pollinated bud site (killing any loose pollens)
5. Turn on your air flow
6. Let it grow as normal (no need to separate the pollinated branch)

In a few days, the pollinated bud site, the pistils(stigmas) will turn brown...sign that its pollinated. A few more days, the calyx starts to swell...sign that seed is starting to form.
 
Xs121 said:
1. Shut off your airflow
2. pollinate your bud site....carefully
3. wait for about 2 hrs
4. spray water on the pollinated bud site (killing any loose pollens)
5. Turn on your air flow
6. Let it grow as normal (no need to separate the pollinated branch)

In a few days, the pollinated bud site, the pistils(stigmas) will turn brown...sign that its pollinated. A few more days, the calyx starts to swell...sign that seed is starting to form.
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Does water really kill pollen?
 
Lowfruit said:
Does water really kill pollen?
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Yes it does. I leave my pollinated plants overnight before spraying everything down. I'm usually only dusting a branch so the rest of the plant is covered in a plastic bag with just the buds I want to dust sticking out. Dust said buds, leave overnight in the shop then spray water all over everything including the floor around the pot(s). Then carry it away somewhere to remove the bag and spray the plant down even more - just in case - before it goes back in the flower room.

I did 5 different pollens on one plant that way. Just one each day and a new bag each time. If it's the only flowering plant you have going t the time then you don't have to be so careful but the bag should be used unless you are doing the whole plant for a seed run.

And don't drink an dust. I thought I was being so careful but ended up with all the plants in the room having reduced potency and yields with only 3 or 4 hundred seeds on each and they were fairly large plants that would have produced a few thousand seeds each in a mass pollination.

Now I have hemp farms popping up here so no more outdoor or flowering indoors during the spring and summer. My outdoor autos got badly knocked up last summer here. Was driving me nuts trying to figure out why they seemed to be doing not as well as the year prior.

Oh well. Hemp is good for our depressed local economy so a few must suffer for the greater good I guess. At least nobody's shooting at me or trying to bomb my house. :D

Always look on the bright side of life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

:peace:
 
I grow outside and have pollinated every new strain I grow. Why continue to buy seeds making someone else rich?

Collecting pollen I have let males openly pollinate and have done it deliberately. You don't need much. I usually pollinate with a small makeup brush I bought at the 99 cent store. To collect pollen I have shaken ripe flowers over newspaper or aluminum foil. I have a friend who is nationally known for a strain that siliconed a chop stick onto a bottle cap. He puts it under the about to burst flowers then taps them with another chopstick. Works quite well for him.

Just remember it takes probably less pollen than you can see to make seeds. And washing the plant down after pollinating is probably a good idea.

The first time I pollinated I went a little nuts and redid buds thinking I didn't use enough. That was 6 years ago. I still have SSH seeds in plenty.
 
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