Fertiliation of the female plant

colem8

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Can anyone help me, I am after some guild lines on how to fertilise a female plant with a male plant. I'm wanting to get her to grow as many seeds as possible so I dont need to go through the seed banks all the time. I'll need to know timings to fert & light timings (i grow with HPS), feeding etc etc. I kinda have a rough idea on how to do it but a very rough idea that is, your help is required!! The old Jorge C marijuana grow guide book helps a little but doesn't have too much specific info on this topic, so your input is needed. Cheers:mrgreen:
 

colem8

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Sweet brotha. Obviously the female should be flowering somewhat pretty hard?? and the male pollen sacks need to be literally dripping with pollen. I have a fan to move the air around too so that'll help. Is there any point feeding the plants or just water?? will this help the genetics???
 

jats

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Hey colem8 howzitgoing.....
to fertilise a female plant with a male plant is not too hard.... 1st you need your plants ,,,so you throw the lights on your seedlings..((that have been vegging for at least 6 weeks or so.)) into 12/12...after between a few days and 2 weeks you should see how many male and female plants you have....at this point I would take out the males.....I put mine outside sometimes but if its the wrong time of the year you can put them/it (( I pick the best one)) in another room..... then when the female/s buds are starting to form I will take a couple of the bottom branches and fertilise them with the pollen I have collected from the male....how you do that it watch the males flowers carefully,,you can tell when they are about to burst...you carefully pick them then and put them into a paper bag.... I collect heaps of flowers and break them open in the bag... after you have a few in the bag you can either take a small unused paintbrush and gently cover it with pollen from the bag and gently "paint" the pollen on2 the buds or you can take the bag and put it over the branch and kind of gently shake it for a minute...then take it off.... ((that way is messier and will fertilise the surrounding branches a little as well ..... you can also store pollen ion the freezer,,but you need to dry it out for a few days before you freeze it ....

of course you can just leave them all in the room together and you'll end up with a whole plant covered in seeds.... but one descent sized branch can produce 100 seeds or more

you don't need to feed them anything other then your usual bloom food...and temps etc as usual...

good luck with that :^)
 

mikegolfer

Active Member
To get "as many seeds as possible" place a flowering male between a fan and a flowering female so the fan is blowing through the male towards the female, gently shake the stem ( a couple inches above the soil) of the male and you will see pollen flying everywhere. Some male flowers will fall off the plant too. You will have pollen EVERYWHERE. Do it two or three times a week. You'll have a truckload of seeds.... Happy Growing
 

akilleez

Member
Why don't you just grow a mother plant, tie her down, and take clones? You can keep a mother alive for years while continuously taking clones from her.
 
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