Help creating seeds on purpose

Johiem

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The LED issue is for making viable pollen with certain strains using STS and CS. It was mentioned in a sentence about STS and the first half was omitted in the quote. Over on another website there's a lot of info and testing on it
Challenge accepted, what strain? I'm presently working with an auto that a friend had only limited success selfing so I'm giving it a shot. And I've got 2 other seed runs before whatever it is would get it's shot, but that gives me time to find them.
 

Sticky Bandit

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can you give a link to this thread please?
I'm sure it's in here somewhere, I'll have a look :)
 

crimsonecho

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I'm sure it's in here somewhere, I'll have a look :)
1 page done 48 to go lmao. again i doubt there will be any scientific data or reasoning of how leds can hinder pollen production compared to hids. if there was a reasonable explanation i’d accept 100%.

and i find if you spray your plant and keep them in complete darkness for 8-12 hours after spraying there isnt usually any stress from sts. its my understanding that silver interacts with light and oxidizes (silver nitrate is also used in photo development process bc of this property) which causes stress and burns the leaves when its outside once inside the plant though there is little to no ill effects causes by this.

i sprayed stronger solutions than whats being suggested in that thread and the plants were looking stunning still without any signs of being sprayed.
 

crimsonecho

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i just very recently cut down a male branch whole from a malawi male with 99% unopened pollen pods and put it in a small bottle of water with added sugar and isolate it in a different room. after a couple of days under 7w of led cabinet lights its dropping some serious pollen. i use a silicon kitchen brush to pollinate selected branches. got malawi X nl, malawi X destroyer, malawi X dinachem going atm today i also did first round pollination of malawi females. we’ll know in a couple of days if it took :)
here is da man chilling under this soft led in sugar water and dropping pollen like nobodys bizness :)
 

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Sticky Bandit

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It wasn't all strains and it was quite a few years ago now when we were all talking about what worked best, different strengths and different time cycles etc. I had a quick look and the thread looks like it's been edited a bit, maybe now the method and strengths are sorted out it doesn't matter as much but there was a lot of talk back then about HPS being better than LED for making VIABLE pollen. For anyone having trouble it might be worth a go :)
I'm unable to "like" posts here as I'm new by the way :)
 

crimsonecho

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It wasn't all strains and it was quite a few years ago now when we were all talking about what worked best, different strengths and different time cycles etc. I had a quick look and the thread looks like it's been edited a bit, maybe now the method and strengths are sorted out it doesn't matter as much but there was a lot of talk back then about HPS being better than LED for making VIABLE pollen. For anyone having trouble it might be worth a go :)
I'm unable to "like" posts here as I'm new by the way :)
ah its ok there are also many old timers here who are unable to “like“ posts lol. to each his own ofc but this is the strangest thing i heard about led lights to date and its just not my experience with leds at all.
 

Sticky Bandit

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ah its ok there are also many old timers here who are unable to “like“ posts lol. to each his own ofc but this is the strangest thing i heard about led lights to date and its just not my experience with leds at all.
Ah ok. back then they were trying to get the dosage right from the original post that might have been edited now. I see one of the guys has gone through and deleted all his posts too. Maybe the dosage is better so it doesn't make much difference about the lights. When the first post went up the dosage turned out to be too weak so who knows? I'm happy to be wrong if the process is solid now :)
Edit" Hey guess what? I can like now :D
 

Sticky Bandit

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Challenge accepted, what strain? I'm presently working with an auto that a friend had only limited success selfing so I'm giving it a shot. And I've got 2 other seed runs before whatever it is would get it's shot, but that gives me time to find them.
If you feel like doing some research and have the lights/space it would be good to know if there is a difference in viable pollen yield. Maybe your friend could try with HPS or CMH? Sounds like a good candidate :P
 

Johiem

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It's simple math
C.S.: 3-4 applications per day for 3 weeks
S.T.S.: 1 application every 4 days for 4 applications
Simple and effective
 
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