Absolutely smashing it there Bill!
Those skunk haze cbds and the rucu cucu are baseball bats!
The reversal is very nice indeed, just looks like a full male plant.
I see a lot of people's reversals and they're ugly mixes of male and female flowers -- but not yours.
They're dropping pollen already, right? I can see some of the spent anthers.
How far into flower are the receiving female plants?
I kind of find this a challenge to time them right.
Usually my males are dropping when my girls are only just starting, but I don't want to keep the males around.
If I can't isolate the males, I often strip the male flowers off them to delay them by a few days to a week.
Let the girls throw many more pistils before the males pollinate them.
How did you plan for the timing?
Like, how many weeks into flowering do you want the future seed moms?
How many weeks into flowering and reversal until your males drop viable pollen?
Think I managed my timing really well this year, mostly by accident.
My main female plants are just a week to a couple of weeks into flowering now, mostly stretch, with just a few pistils.
Those big girls are many months old already, and several are revegged from seed plants started in Oct last year!
My male plants are totally different batch -- actually, I don't know if they're male yet, but they're regs.
Started in July maybe, but left stunted in tiny tiny pots.
I shifted these little regs into bigger pots at the base of the older females a week or two ago, and they perked right up.
Now the little seedlings are just starting to show sex -- two females out of seven so far, but should get a boy or two.
Hopefully the big girls will be nicely into flower, maximum pistil output, by the time the boys start to drop pollen.
I want to hit a whole big branch or two of the females with the pollen.
By big branch, I mean like two to three foot long cola.
And see if I can get a couple of hundred viable seeds from each of these girls.
I had input from
@Antonio_DutchPassion and
@BCBudlady to help guide me through this little experiment.
I think the biggest thing that I wanted to achieve is having the reversed females producing pollen early on in the flowering cycle of the recipient girls. This was really just to make sure that the seeds would have the best chance to fully mature without having to take the recipient girls
way past their chop time. I'm still gonna take them past their chop time, just not a crazy amount.
With photos, I think 14 to 21 days is a good window to flip your recipients to flower after beginning the Reversing process. For the reversal females, I sprayed them on the night I was flipping them. I sprayed them every other night just before lights out. Twenty20 Calls for 4 spraying, but I did 6 or 7. I hit every single bud site and sprayed the main stem. The additional spraying didn't hurt them And since it was already mixed the solution would not keep, so it didn't hurt a thing to do that. I think it helped.
With as well as the reversal took, I think that 14 to 21 day time frame would work for most all photos. These reversed females will be producing pollen easily for the next two weeks with it increasing in intensity. More than likely they will get pulled within that time frame. I mainly wanted the reverse females to be producing pollen at the very beginning of the recipients flowering cycle to give the seeds the best chance to mature.
They are definitely dropping the pollen! You can see on the leaves random little dumps of pollen!
I think the pollen is definitely viable. A few days after seeing pistils on the recipient girls, I began to see Browning on some of them. In some of the earliest spots, I am already seeing swelling.
Yeah, I'm real happy with how the 2X4 tent turned out. I read the root intrusion into the nutrient mound Properly and in the top dressing at a proper time, unlike what I did in the 4x4 tent. I got behind the nutrient needs on the girls in the 4x4 tent. I tried to catch up with some liquid nutrients that would have been readily available. I watched some of those nutrients down into the reservoir and then to compound that mistake, I added water to the reservoir too soon and it caused the environment there to flip and just screw up everything. I might could have got away with it in Prior grows, but I was really pushing it with high CO2 and light levels. Your nutrients need to be spot on if you're pushing them that hard.
And that problem was really caused by the new product I was using. RootWise From BAS. The problem was that it worked very well and I got root intrusion into the nutrient mound roughly 10 days to two weeks earlier than normal. The problem came in when I did not
act on what I saw!
Those two girls in the 4x4 tent would have been much bigger than the girls and the 2X4 tent if I hadn't screwed up on them!
I think from this point forward, the
only time I'm gonna use Earthbox Juniors with
photos is during a
test and I flip at like 30 days from Sprout.
The next challenge will be doing the same, but with autos. And I think autos will be a bit more difficult, but it will be with girls that I've already grown before, so I know how they grow. I think the timing's gonna be kinda similar. I think the 14 to 21 day time frame Is a good start of when to plant the recipient girls. It could be adjusted for when the girl starts to flower.
I have two candidates off the top of my head. One is just because I like the smoke and the other is a very good medicinal. That's Sour Stomper and Vidamints, respectively.
