New Grower A little fun with pollen

[Autofire]

Any reason why you choose to use male photoperiod pollen as opposed to reversing an already feminised female plant to then produce feminised offspring ?

 

[DarKnight]

Any reason why you choose to use male photoperiod pollen as opposed to reversing an already feminised female plant to then produce feminised offspring ?

First and foremost, I like having fun and to me the act of hybridizing is fun. I also wanted to see how different sources of frozen pollen actually panned out. Introducing genes from several different photoperiods is my longer term goal. The f1 I realize will simply be heterozygous for the autoflower gene. The f2 however will have a 25% chance of having autoflowers with the introduced genes from the photoperiods I have selected. Any f2 autoflowers however will then be homozygous for the autoflower trait with hopefully some of them showing the desired introduced genes. Purple Lemonade is very beautiful to me and I love the nose on her. I have more pollen scheduled to arrive today for some more planned crosses.
At worst, I receive a bunch of dead or hardly viable pollen. At best, I get a nice jump start on some crosses and I may then invest more money in shipped pollen from those places that do it successfully.

 

[DarKnight]

Any reason why you choose to use male photoperiod pollen as opposed to reversing an already feminised female plant to then produce feminised offspring ?

Rather than edit, I decided to expound on your question here. I may have missed the mark a bit with my previous answer to your question. Feminized pollen could have been utilized from a photoperiod female and I would certainly not have been against that if I found some with the desired phenotypes. This would have produced nice feminized offspring. When dealing with exceptional clones, there might be much to be gained. You can visually see the phenotypes of both females you are working with and you may even know through testing what THC levels etc. are present in both cloned females used in the cross. I would most certainly utilize an auto that had been feminized as well if it carried the traits I was after as well. The fact of the matter is, it is not easy finding people willing to ship pollen for me. The quality of the pollen once shipped may deteriorate depending on how long the pollen stayed in shipment as well as how it was shipped. Pollen shipped on dry ice in an insulated container overnight would be a heck of a lot better, one would think, than pollen that took 2 weeks to get delivered and was sent without any cooling packs whatsoever. If I trusted 100% that the pollen that arrived would be even 30% viable I would have ordered more pollen to be certain.

 

[DarKnight]

 

[Autofire]

Rather than edit, I decided to expound on your question here. I may have missed the mark a bit with my previous answer to your question. Feminized pollen could have been utilized from a photoperiod female and I would certainly not have been against that if I found some with the desired phenotypes. This would have produced nice feminized offspring. When dealing with exceptional clones, there might be much to be gained. You can visually see the phenotypes of both females you are working with and you may even know through testing what THC levels etc. are present in both cloned females used in the cross. I would most certainly utilize an auto that had been feminized as well if it carried the traits I was after as well. The fact of the matter is, it is not easy finding people willing to ship pollen for me. The quality of the pollen once shipped may deteriorate depending on how long the pollen stayed in shipment as well as how it was shipped. Pollen shipped on dry ice in an insulated container overnight would be a heck of a lot better, one would think, than pollen that took 2 weeks to get delivered and was sent without any cooling packs whatsoever. If I trusted 100% that the pollen that arrived would be even 30% viable I would have ordered more pollen to be certain.

I am just starting to mess around with making my own seed and have only tried it by reversing fem autos and using this pollen on other fem autos. I have tried mixing photos and autos but might do so pretty soon. I guess if you ship the pollen in you've got it on hand ready to go instead of going through the lengthy process of reversing a plant and harvesting your own pollen.

I didn't know that the lifespan of the pollen was so short. Thanks for posting this useful info.

 

[DarKnight]

 

[DarKnight]

 

[DarKnight]

 

[DarKnight]

17 day old Pollen utilized: Freak Show, Subterfuge #1, etc.

 

[DarKnight]