no pollen in male flowers??

2little time

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I was woundering if it is common for plants treated with colloidal silver to produce male flowers that contain no pollen.
This is my first attempt at feming and was ecstatic to see that my home made colloidal silver had produced nice robust male clusters on the branch that I had treated with the spray. However, the flowers are now beginning to blow open and and there is no pollen to be found.
I was woundering if this is common or just one of thoughts things that happen from time to time or if it was something I did or didnt do.
thank you!
 

CannaBruh

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Have the bananas opened themselves? You might try to force open the bananas, sometimes the ball will bust open and bananas hang, but they don't open.
 

2little time

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[QUOTEexactlyCannaBruh, post: 13527468, member: 927248"]Have the bananas opened themselves? You might try to force open the bananas, sometimes the ball will bust open and bananas hang, but they don't open.[/QUOTE]
Thats exactly what's happening. Even so, the Stamen contain very little pollen. I'm trying to gently open them now. Thanks!
 

JDMase

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Yeah mate I had that exact thing, bare with it another week or so and you'll see some pollen. I didn't think I had any and was so annoyed but apparently it's not uncommon for your first few sacks to be sterile.
 

CannaBruh

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You might also collect all the balls/bananas, store them where they won't be disturbed, once they've dried in a day or two then break them up some. I would work that in parallel with forcefully opening the banana from open balls directly over fresh pistils. Had good success this way with a stubborn male recently. The babes have turned out ok, though I haven't tried to hang onto a male from that generation to see if the stubborn dust trait followed. Good luck dusting your ladies!
 

2little time

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I just wanted to follow up on my original post.
my girl finoly did pollinate herself with a little help. I ended up having to cut the branch I had treated with the colloidal silver and just let it hang to dry. Then I just shook it about my girl and shes now developing seed. Ive gotta mention tho, for the size of the male clusters on that brach, there sure wasn't much pollen in them.
I do, however have some concerns. This girl is a Lemmon skunk pheno and she mature and ripen in 7weeks. My concern is that I got her good and pollinated so late o m not really sure how she will hold up until her seed mature.
 

JDMase

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I just wanted to follow up on my original post.
my girl finoly did pollinate herself with a little help. I ended up having to cut the branch I had treated with the colloidal silver and just let it hang to dry. Then I just shook it about my girl and shes now developing seed. Ive gotta mention tho, for the size of the male clusters on that brach, there sure wasn't much pollen in them.
I do, however have some concerns. This girl is a Lemmon skunk pheno and she mature and ripen in 7weeks. My concern is that I got her good and pollinated so late o m not really sure how she will hold up until her seed mature.
I did mine in late flower I just had to run the plant for a long time before its seeds had ripened.
 

CannaBruh

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just let it run for as long as you can or as long as you can stand, she'll try to finish beans before she dies on the stick
 

OldMedUser

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From everything I've read about the technique the pollen should really be used on a different plant than the one it came from. Same strain maybe but not from the same mother to prevent reinforcing bad traits thru inbreeding. Same reason you don't make babies with your sister. ;)

I've been making regular beans for about 16 years now and pollinate a lower branch or two on the girls around 3 weeks into flowering so the seeds are ripe about the same time the whole plant is. If the seeds aren't done when the buds are then I just crop the plant leaving the pollinated buds on until the seeds are ready and have a bunch of unseeded pot to smoke from that plant. Got 4 strains almost ready to crop and each strain has a couple branches pollinated with OTTO#1 which is an almost CBD only strain. Supposed to be less that 1% THC and up to 27% CBD.

:peace:
 

Xcoregamerskillz

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From everything I've read about the technique the pollen should really be used on a different plant than the one it came from. Same strain maybe but not from the same mother to prevent reinforcing bad traits thru inbreeding. Same reason you don't make babies with your sister. ;)

I've been making regular beans for about 16 years now and pollinate a lower branch or two on the girls around 3 weeks into flowering so the seeds are ripe about the same time the whole plant is. If the seeds aren't done when the buds are then I just crop the plant leaving the pollinated buds on until the seeds are ready and have a bunch of unseeded pot to smoke from that plant. Got 4 strains almost ready to crop and each strain has a couple branches pollinated with OTTO#1 which is an almost CBD only strain. Supposed to be less that 1% THC and up to 27% CBD.

:peace:
I was just going to suggest this same thing.
 
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