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thefoo
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I have some primo RRF and AA pollen harvested about a month ago. When is the best time to pollinate the buds for best seeds?
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m.boogie
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i asked the same ? a few weeks back and the answer i got was between 40 to 45 days old.. i did mine at day 42.. i only pollinated one branch on one of my females and i see at least 20 to 30 seeds.
and here i read this somewhere else.. dont know if its BS or not, but it sounds good. lol.
When to pollinate cannabis?
There is not a perfect time when to pollinate an autoflower cannabis female but there are some factors that can help you to know when to pollinate his plant. First of all we know that autoflower plants usually live no more than 2 to 3 months so we need to time our pollination graphic exactly right to get fully mature seeds. Cannabis seeds usually take a month or so to fully mature and be ready to harvest so we need to know how long a particular strain lives and pollinate it at least a month before the end of the plants life cycle. There is also a problem of too early pollination when the plants has just started flowering and the calyxes are not fully matured. If you pollinate your plant at this stage and let it grow without any further pollination then you will get a small amount of seeds.
A good practice for all autoflower cannabis growers is to pollinate the plants one or two weeks into flowering because then there are some female flowers already matured and those seeds that will form at that stage will be ready when the plant reaches it’s harvest time. If you pollinate your plant later then those seeds wound be ready when the harvest time comes and you will be forced to let the plant grow for a longer period of time and let the THC to degrade and forget about a top quality bud.
and here i read this somewhere else.. dont know if its BS or not, but it sounds good. lol.
When to pollinate cannabis?
There is not a perfect time when to pollinate an autoflower cannabis female but there are some factors that can help you to know when to pollinate his plant. First of all we know that autoflower plants usually live no more than 2 to 3 months so we need to time our pollination graphic exactly right to get fully mature seeds. Cannabis seeds usually take a month or so to fully mature and be ready to harvest so we need to know how long a particular strain lives and pollinate it at least a month before the end of the plants life cycle. There is also a problem of too early pollination when the plants has just started flowering and the calyxes are not fully matured. If you pollinate your plant at this stage and let it grow without any further pollination then you will get a small amount of seeds.
A good practice for all autoflower cannabis growers is to pollinate the plants one or two weeks into flowering because then there are some female flowers already matured and those seeds that will form at that stage will be ready when the plant reaches it’s harvest time. If you pollinate your plant later then those seeds wound be ready when the harvest time comes and you will be forced to let the plant grow for a longer period of time and let the THC to degrade and forget about a top quality bud.
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thefoo
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Yea that seems reasonable. I think when I did this before it was too early as I only got 3 or so seeds last time. Thanks for the reply!
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Usually the males take about 5-6 weeks to fully flower and drop their pollen. By that time the females will be finishing up veg and about to go into full flower. That's usually when I pollinate them. When harvest time comes I usually cut the mature buds off the plants but leave the seeded branches for another 2 weeks or so until those branches have pretty much started to die off and the seed pods are splitting open. Nice big, mature seeds then.
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