Reversing a mother plant for pollen?

If I reverse a 4 year old mother with colloidal silver to produce pollen, will it be any good? I have a Liberty Haze and a Cotton Candy mothers that I need to get rid of for space reasons. Both healthy, clones produce well, I'm just rotating them out of my cycle.

Thanks for the advice,

Zo

ZoBudd said:

If I reverse a 4 year old mother with colloidal silver to produce pollen, will it be any good? I have a Liberty Haze and a Cotton Candy mothers that I need to get rid of for space reasons. Both healthy, clones produce well, I'm just rotating them out of my cycle.

Thanks for the advice,

Zo

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Hoping for some advice please.

thanks!!!!

Yes it should be fine however I prefer the route of using any pollen from a male you like and creating a new cross, 25% of the siblings will be pretty close to your mom.

Why don't you just grow out real quick a Liberty Haze male and pollen the mother with it. You preserve the lineage providing it was IBL to begin with, but even if it wasn't you still preserve the lineage. Even if you the female pollination you aren't going to preserve the plant the way it is now.

Yes, it will be fine. If you use the pollen to pollinate one of the clones from the same strain, that will be fine too.

GreenSanta said:

Yes it should be fine however I prefer the route of using any pollen from a male you like and creating a new cross, 25% of the siblings will be pretty close to your mom.

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That's not really how genetics work. The offspring will have characteristics from both parents. In the first generation (f1), the offspring in a hybrid cross should all be pretty uniform. If you then breed two of those offspring together to create f2's, you will notice a split in phenos. There's a lot more that needs to be considered.

twistedwords said:

Why don't you just grow out real quick a Liberty Haze male and pollen the mother with it. You preserve the lineage providing it was IBL to begin with, but even if it wasn't you still preserve the lineage. Even if you the female pollination you aren't going to preserve the plant the way it is now.

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You still preserve the IBL by using fem pollen, since it is essentially the same as using any other sibling from the same generation, except all of the pollen grains contain x-chromosomes, so all of the offspring are female.

Just a thought for you in the future. You could have just harvested the upper portion of the plant and then re-vegged her for a while and took new cuttings.