Does this time of pollination affect seed production

[mclovin478910]

Hey all got a quick question, attempted my first pollination at the beginning of flower. around the first week where there were just the first sets of pistols forming.


My question is does the time of pollination (ie amount of pistols possibly pollinated) affect the amount of seeds produced. I notice quite a few seed pods in my bud which is great only hoping for enough to continue each strain.


But im finding seed pods in places I did not try to pollinate so my next question is do you think because I attempted my pollination so early it wont completely seed the entire plant or im shit out of luck?


thanks in advance for any help cant change things now but just trying to get a grip on whats going on in my garden haha

 

[Eekman]

Hi there,

A couple of q's come to mind. Did you wash the plant down before moving it? what was your method of pollination? and how long did you leave it in the pollination process?


As far as having seed in unwanted places, I pollinated one branch on one plant once, but didn't wet it down afterwards, the four other plants had tons of seeds. So it doesn't take much

Now I use a brush, or female + male, in another tent.

Peace,

Eek

 

[X]

My question is does the time of pollination (ie amount of pistols possibly pollinated) affect the amount of seeds produced. I notice quite a few seed pods in my bud which is great only hoping for enough to continue each strain.

You can't get more seeds than you have pistils to make them with. So, your seed-count will be lower with less pistils to fertilize... But, if you wait too long, it may not give the seeds enough time to mature.

 

[Ilynnboy]

The pistils (hairs) which caught the pollen will only be pollinated.
You will probably get a few seeds.
I normally try to wait until three weeks of flowering to pollinate.
The more pistils get pollinated the more seeds you will get.
Although waiting too long will result in seeds that are Not ripe and Bud that is...
Been there done that...
4-5 weeks for seed to ripen. So if your plant flowers for 8 weeks then pollinate in week 3.
Ripe bud and ripe seed..
Hope that helps.

 

[mclovin478910]

I used a damp q-tip and brushed a single branch and washed outside the tent shortly afterwards. im assuming some pollen made it up and around after the fact but I think I did it early enough so there weren't a lot of pistols to be fertilized. ill check my thread to see when exactly I did it and what things were looking like

 

[Ilynnboy]

Also when the pistil is successfully pollinated it will turn reddish brown within a week.
Telling you how much was pollinated.

 

[Budson420]

Sorry to hijack your post but ive been wanting to ask a question myself, maybe you could even help me?
I had to get seeds from from one of my females once she hits of age, i have have the items to make CS and ive been told to not even worry about the store brought stuff, but i heard from an old school grower i know if you pollinate a lower branch (same method as the CS) and then slip a clear plastic bag over the pollinated branch, i know nothing about breeding but will the whole plant produce seeds? or just that branch? taking into account i dont get pollen anywhere else and ive done it correctly?
again sorry for the hijack but hoping you can help me out bro :smokebuds:

 

[mclovin478910]

wasn't able to check when the pistols turned, this is what they looked like the day after I did the dusting so I guess quite a few pistols were available to be fertilized.


I guess only time will tell if I get 10 or 100 seeds. I did the pollinating on 12-21-13 so with a 5 week timeline the seeds should be fully mature around the time the buds are fully mature as well.

 

[mclovin478910]

I have more pollen stored and I actually planned on using the bag method on my next wonderful female to contain the pollen to the one branch

 

[Eekman]

The plastic bag method seems ideal, because you pollenate, entrap the pollen, then the plant sweats, to keep the pollen from flying around again, maybe a theory?

I have never had a problem under-pollenating, only over-pollenating.

Eek