First male plant in almost 25 years, need some info please..?

Sour Wreck

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OldMedUser said:
For collecting pollen I cut off some top branches, stick them in a low jar of water so they lay over a fresh sheet of tin foil so the pollen and finished flowers can fall on it. A cardboard box with a 23w 2700K CFL on 12/12 is enough to keep it maturing. Tucked away in a closet somewhere away from the girls is good enough too.

You want to clean the pollen well of any small bits of plant material. I use a 180 micron screen to do that quickly. Then I put it in a vial and store open inside a jar of drying crystals for a few days then seal up the vial and keep it in that jar with the crystals. I haven't frozen any and it seems to last a few months at room temp tho I haven't tried any of the older stuff in a long time.

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after harvesting more pollen than i can use on a male texas butter, i clipped some branches and stuck them in water like you did. i laid black construction paper under it all. with no direct lighting at all those branches continue to dump loads of pollen. a tap on one branch dumps even more.
 
OldMedUser

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Beachwalker said:
How long do seeds take to mature?

(I'm thinking 2 - 4 weeks depending on variants like temperature, thanks for any info)
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Sour Wreck said:
4-5 weeks, some like to go 6...
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I pollinated on May 14 at 1am and last night around 3am finished cropping the smallest of two Critical Mass plants so exactly 30 days or 4 weeks and two days. There were quite a few unripe seeds but I got 104 nice dark, fat seeds that look good for future plantings. 37 of them off the branch I deliberately dusted and 67 on the rest of the plant. Likely missed lots as well so @Sour Wreck pretty much nailed it.

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SchmoeJoe

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When I try to to open this file it asks me if I want to download it again. If this thread something you're interested in then this is worth the read. It's the best article I've been able to find on long term pollen storage.
 

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Beachwalker

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I used to run seed crops so I think I used to put them both in a box or I put one in a box and shake pollen or a male over it, probably did both ?

but if I wanted to pollinate just one branch, I was thinking cut the side off an envelope, put pollen in envelope, put it over the branch (in some other room) for a few hours and then put it back in the garden ?

..would this work ?

..and would it keep the accidental spread to a minimum?

..Is there a better way?
 
OldMedUser

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Beachwalker said:
I used to run seed crops so I think I used to put them both in a box or I put one in a box and shake pollen or a male over it, probably did both ?

but if I wanted to pollinate just one branch, I was thinking cut the side off an envelope, put pollen in envelope, put it over the branch (in some other room) for a few hours and then put it back in the garden ?

..would this work ?

..and would it keep the accidental spread to a minimum?

..Is there a better way?
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Paper bags are often used tho a garbage over the whole plant with just a branch sticking out works fine. When you take the envelope or bag off some pollen is going to be flying around.

Just move the plant out of the grow room if possible and after the pollination spray everything down with water before taking the plant back to the grow room.

I've chopped off all the branches but one on a male then put a paper bag with a plastic window over the last branch to collect the pollen. The paper allows moisture to escape and the window lets light in to keep the branch healthy and growing.

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xtsho

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OldMedUser said:
Paper bags are often used tho a garbage over the whole plant with just a branch sticking out works fine. When you take the envelope or bag off some pollen is going to be flying around.

Just move the plant out of the grow room if possible and after the pollination spray everything down with water before taking the plant back to the grow room.

I've chopped off all the branches but one on a male then put a paper bag with a plastic window over the last branch to collect the pollen. The paper allows moisture to escape and the window lets light in to keep the branch healthy and growing.

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I like your ingenuity.
 
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