How to pollinate just one stem

too larry said:

I grow in the bush. Often pollen collection is easy and uneventful. But not always. In '16 I cut the shoots of pollen sacks off a CPDA {chicken pen, deer ate} male 3 times. I used some the pollen on lower limbs of two CPDA females in the same patch, then hiked out with the fresh pollen in my pack. Three times I got caught in a thunderstorm just minutes later. I had a female BP {Berry Patch}, a sister strain to CPDA, I was trying to cross. I tried the pollen all three times, but only got one seed off the plant. And I don't trust myself to remember to always wash my hands, so I don't trust it to be CPDA X BP. Not only that, but the rain so soon after I had dusted the plants in the bush washed most of the pollen off. I did make 25-50 seeds between the two plants, but it should have been 200-300 on each plant for the amount of pollen I put on them.

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Mother nature is a bad motherfucker...

charface said:

Mother nature is a bad motherfucker...

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She didn't want that cross made I guess. The bitch is when I dug the holes, my Tampa cousins down the road had a trailer they used as a camp for a long weekend every month or so. I had to drive by there coming and going, but always could find out when they were going to be up. So I drove to real close to the patches, about 100 yards. Made it easier to get the soil mix packed in for sure. I planted 10-12 plants, {the others were CP1's} back there in some of my pine woods. I was taking water in the truck every week or so. It was so nice. . . . .

Then the cousins retired, and moved into the trailer and let their kids have the house in Tampa. So I had to hike about an extra mile each way.

So what i got is,

Collect polen?

And take a q-tip and dip it in polen and rub it on budds?

And change cloths before going into flower room

theflowerman.dc said:

So what i got is,

Collect polen?

And take a q-tip and dip it in polen and rub it on budds?

And change cloths before going into flower room

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Well when you put it that way.

theflowerman.dc said:

So what i got is,

Collect polen?

And take a q-tip and dip it in polen and rub it on budds?

And change cloths before going into flower room

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I dip it in the pollen then tap it in the vial to get excess off and then just tap it lightly close to the hairs so it falls on them. Let sit for 12 hours then rinse off with a bit of water from a spray bottle and put it back in the flower room. Any water kills the pollen so it won't be floating around the room making random seeds but a bit of that won't hurt nothing.

After a couple days you'll notice the hairs going red and shriveling up. Put some twist ties around the stems near the buds so you'll know where to find the seeds 5 or 6 weeks later. If the plant is ready to crop go ahead and just leave the seeded branch(es) on until you see seeds cracking out of the calyxes. Can pick them out one at a time to make sure any not yet ripe get done or if there is going to be lots of seeds just cut off the branch and bust up the buds to get them all.

Lots of fun!

I am not understanding what am i rinsing off with water?

Am i rinsing the plant before polinating or after?

Or the plants i dont pollinate,?

Water will kill pollen.
I spray water on everything I don't want pollinated.

So if I pollinate a branch I will next mist the rest of the plant in case some pollen got on it

theflowerman.dc said:

I am not understanding what am i rinsing off with water?

Am i rinsing the plant before polinating or after?

Or the plants i dont pollinate,?

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You just want to get any stray pollen wet so it won't knock up any of the other girls. So dust the buds somewhere safe and leave it for about 12 hours to make sure that the seed is set, spray everything including the floor enough to get it a bit wet. Then remove the wet bag off the plant if you covered most of the plant and put the plant back in the grow room to make buds and seeds.

Easy-peasy.

I was trying to say Whiney.

My males are 17 days in, when will they be ready to spit pollen?

theflowerman.dc said:

My males are 17 days in, when will they be ready to spit pollen?

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17 days from flip? Are you seeing balls yet?

Well here you can seee,

I was told that males mature wayyy faster then females,

But here they are on day 15,

Here what they look like right now,

Most of the time, {assuming plants from the same strain}, the pollen will release before the females are ready. About week 3 of flower for the female is when most folks pollinate. Collect your pollen and wait a week or so before using it.