Newbie to breeding please help!!!!

I have read a little on breeding and I want to try it. I have some fire mid grade bag seed and so far 1 male outa 4 dont know what the others are yet. I have some female that I have been cloning for like a year now. Well its time to try something new. Should I just let things happen naturally in my grow tent or should I Monitor and manually pollinate. If so, how? at what point should I put the pollen on the buds? please help. I still have six weeks before females are done.

I only pollinate one or two lower branches and let the rest flower. This gives me both seeds and smokable bud. You can also use different pollen on different branches...just don t forget to label them

sounds like a plan to me when should I do this two weeks to harvest or 4 weeks to harvest?

Collect the pollen then use a cue tip to pollinate buds selectively.

my females are mostly sativa so they actually take 10 weeks instead of 8 weeks. I have a two week interval by the time my males are ready.

Pollinate about two weeks into flower or they will not mature enough to be viable. If you wait to long the seeds will not mature enough.

ok. so Iv been seeing alot of people taking the branches off and putting them in water with like foil to catch. Should I do this only when the male has some busted balls?

Just remove the balls b4 they are about to burst. Let them dry till the burst then collect pollen.

ok so what im going to do is take my male out before he burst, cut him the fuck down and let him dry and they will burst basically during the drying process right???

yeah just make sure that they don't burst in room or the whole plant will be pollinated. If you pollinate 2-3 branches you'll get a good 50 seeds and good smoke from the rest of it.

already!! thank Balzac89 preciate the help. Ill post some pics once the shit is ready.

I prefer sticking the male branches w/ flowers (about to open) in a glass and putting some tin foil underneath to catch the pollen...I tried drying the branches beforehand, but the flowers never opened for me... so if drying first doesnt work, you can try this way.

Pollinate the branches no later than five weeks before the harvest. Even then, you might have to leave the seeded branches on the plant for a week or two to mature...I usually leave my seeds until the plant dies naturally and dries up...by then they are big, dark brown and almost falling out of the calyxes... In general, seeds take about 6 weeks to mature.