Nanners, rodelization, what's the best way to spread the pollen?

So I tried to get a clone to produce balls with colloidal silver but it failed. Now I have the clone covered in white pistils. I also have the mother that is now around 12 weeks. I harvested the top half of her (no signs of nanners or seeds) at 10 weeks.

Now the bottom half is showing nanners and some seeds. I have read that it takes 3-6 weeks from pollination to have mature seeds but I don't know how long ago these were pollinated. From the pictures, should I give them approx. two weeks or a month longer to mature?

I would also like to spread the pollen to the other plant, what is the best way of doing this? cut the nanners off and move them to the other plant, or maybe put a fan directlt on the canopy?

Thanks

let the plants go along as you can lean the plant on a mirror and scrape up 2x times per day ..store in the fridge until required lasts about 2 weeks apply with cotton bud

1 you can transfer pollen via a small paint or makeup brush. I’ve seen some use a vibrating toothbrush held against the pollen sites to shake it out of the plant.

vostok said:

let the plants go along as you can

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OK, I guess that means about a month or more then.

Where’sthecurve said:

use a vibrating toothbrush held against the pollen sites to shake it out of the plant.

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Thanks, going to try this. The plant I want to pollinate is in the same tent, so I'll try to put a fan blowing towards the other plant and vibrate the bannanas somehow. I thought from what people say that nanners would pollinate your whole tent, but there are only a few seeds located very close to them. The other plant doesn't have a single receded pistil yet.

The first seeds I made I plucked some nanners from one plant with tweezers and used another set of tweezers to tear the nanner open over the female I was pollinating and I rubbed the nanners around on the pistils. It successfully pollinated and I had made my first seeds.

Thanks again all, I tried both methods, vibrating the plant with a fan to blow the pollen over and also ripping off four nanners and wiping them over the buds before ripping them up and wiping the remains/the tweezers over the buds.

I'll post an update in the next week to show how it worked out.

Well, four days in and I thought everything had failed, not a red hair in sight.


Day 5

guess it worked. I had a hard time finding pictures of seed maturity progression so I plan to document this. Idk why it's so hard to find good info, there are many posts that say in 24-48 hours they will be brown. Slowly learning to trust books over forums, says 'about three days' in george cervantes encyclopedia.

Do all seeds turn brown? The one I popped to find this girl was *huge* but dull green. Some of the still green seeds are poking out already but the pictures online always show the seed already browned with stripes before the calyx splits.

Here's the seeds on the other plant over two weeks of development. Does this look reasonable or did they get pollinated before day 0 and I somehow missed the nanners/seeds?

Day 0: cut top half of plant off, no signs of nanners or seeds.
Day 7: first notice seeds, see nanners.jpg in OP for picture.
Days 10 and 13: see below for pictures. All three pictures are the same bud, but the angle is a bit different for the first one (the bud in question is the one above the stem with 2 seeds visible.

Note 3 days and one week denote the time from when I first noticed seeds (OP, nanners.jpg)

So this is an old thread but I thought I would post an update mostly as a warning for other newbs that read this post.

Where I'm coming from is I'm a newb grower that was popping mix packs until I got one strain that blew everything else away and wanted to preserve this for future grows because with a 4 plant limit I don't always want half my garden to be this strain.

Where it failed is that I learned that the plant did not hermie because of time, but did so because of the 48h of dark I gave it. I know this because another one did the same thing after the lights went out for 36h. Sooo, any seeds that would have been produced are useless.

The second failure is in that I finally bought some 'good genetics' and they have also blown away everything else I grew as well. Lesson learned, just buy what you know is good.

Here's the kicker.... No seeds were produced. Is that a thing? Where hermies don't always produce viable seed? Even for the first plant all that is visible is some enlarged/exposed ovules not seeds. Guess I lucked out on the last one. Maybe there is one or two seeds tucked away still to be found later.