Another Sweet Newbie Question

Say you let one of your females become pollinated so you can have some seeds for the future. Approximately how many would you expect from one plant? I know it would depend on what strain and how tall it is, but give me a rough estimate, please.

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Whether growing indoors or out, if you "let" one plant get pollinated, you will most likely contaminate your other plants. That means that your buds will not be sensimillia, and your yield will be much less.

IF you really want to produce some seeds, and you have some pollen, or a pollen-releasing male flower, you can do it without affecting your entire crop. Just keep the pollen, or male flowers, in a plastic bag. Place that bag over one branch of a plant and secure it there. Shake it around a bit and remove from the area. This way the flowers on that one branch will be pollenated, and produce seeds, and the rest of the buds on the plant will still be seedless, if you are careful with the pollen. The seeded branch will procuce many seeds.

Just keep in mind that the seeds that you produce will be F1 hybrids, and as such, will be extremely variable in the traits exhibited.

HTH

Wow. That is some pretty cool advice. It would lead me to ponder and ask about how you'd get seeds that are less variable and more likely to have desireable traits, but I am guessing that's pretty hard/time consuming to do and I am going to bed in about two seconds.

Great tip, potroast, seems to me like you should have your own book out on the subject already

Would it be a better idea to start afresh after a crop if possible instead?

Booyawkahshaw said:

Wow. That is some pretty cool advice. It would lead me to ponder and ask about how you'd get seeds that are less variable and more likely to have desireable traits, but I am guessing that's pretty hard/time consuming to do and I am going to bed in about two seconds.

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Geez Louise, this is Newbie Central, and you're asking me about breeding?
That's way too much to go into here, but you are right that it takes some time and effort. Basically, those F1 seeds must be grown, and the selected females are then pollenated with the same pollen, and then those are grown and the selected females are then pollenated with the same pollen, and then those are grown and the selected females are then pollenated with the same pollen, and then those are grown and the, whew!

You get the idea...

Now you know why the seed breeders charge so much...

And yeah, the bag on the branch thing is a cool idea. But I didn't come up with it, I just read a lot of books.
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DeepBlue said:

Great tip, potroast, seems to me like you should have your own book out on the subject already

Would it be a better idea to start afresh after a crop if possible instead?

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If you mean to start afresh with new seeds, that will add some vigor to your crop. But I seldom mess with seeds. I grow with cuttings -- known females that are ready to flower.
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Booyawkahshaw said:

Say you let one of your females become pollinated so you can have some seeds for the future. Approximately how many would you expect from one plant? I know it would depend on what strain and how tall it is, but give me a rough estimate, please.

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Man 8 years later and no one could give you a guesstimate... If all the pollin is viable and you have enough to dust the entire thing say plant hight finished at 2ft( 6-10 colas) easy over a 1000

Mader89 said:

Man 8 years later and no one could give you a guesstimate... If all the pollin is viable and you have enough to dust the entire thing say plant hight finished at 2ft( 6-10 colas) easy over a 1000

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This^^

Good tip. Thanks.
Does the F1 hybrid think really mess you around or are you still likely to get some kind of smokable product.

Also will each seed that is produced give different traits or will the whole batch be stable but different from the parents?

All the seeds will have different traits thats why you grow them out pick your favorites and breed them back with the male pollen. This way you "control" what traits are passed down. It gives the new seeds a higher percentage chance of having the desirable trait(s) your breeding for.

Thanks @IAmTheSun.
I'd be happy with a few seeds so I don't need to order in again.
I might try this next time.