my plan to get seeds and harvest from one plant?...

[6700]

i want to harvest most of the plant, just chop off the cola from the top until the bottom node but leave a few branches at the bottom on the plant alive to keep flowering, eventually they will hermie and and i will get a few seeds and a full harvest from one plant? do you think this would work? i will probably try it anyways just for fun. thanks

 

[Bromeo]

Why would if eventually hermie? I mean unless you stress it but then your getting pollen from a stressed hermied plant. I don't think you would even have time to then self it.

 

[6700]

Why would if eventually hermie? I mean unless you stress it but then your getting pollen from a stressed hermied plant. I don't think you would even have time to then self it.

thanks for the input, i have heard that before that if the plant flowers for a very long time without being polinated it will hermie as a last try to reproduce. maybe i heard wrong ill look into it

 

[6700]

yeah most sites seem to say that it will possibly naturally hermie as a survival technique if left to flower for a long time... has anyone done this? i cant find any really credible info on this... thanks

 

[Bromeo]

I think they are talking about photopeirod plants bud. By the time your plant recovers from being harvested its pretty much at the end of its life cycle. You can't re-veg it like you can a photo plant. But even then your still getting pollen from a stressed plant. Offspring will likely hermie as well.

 

[mikey1]

I took a couple of very small lower branches from my white widow just when she was beginning to preflower and rooted them in rockwool cubes with some cloning gel...They rooted very quickly and vigorously and I subjected them to the colloidal silver regimen, producing male flowers after about 35 days...I just pollinated a few of the lower branches this evening and I plan on harvesting the top of the plant first as you described and letting the seeds finish on the "stump". ..Looks like it actually might work! If I get seeds they should produce female plants.

 

[realcarlos]

I took a couple of very small lower branches from my white widow just when she was beginning to preflower and rooted them in rockwool cubes with some cloning gel...They rooted very quickly and vigorously and I subjected them to the colloidal silver regimen, producing male flowers after about 35 days...I just pollinated a few of the lower branches this evening and I plan on harvesting the top of the plant first as you described and letting the seeds finish on the "stump". ..Looks like it actually might work! If I get seeds they should produce female plants.

Mickey please let us know how your pollination works out

 

[6700]

I took a couple of very small lower branches from my white widow just when she was beginning to preflower and rooted them in rockwool cubes with some cloning gel...They rooted very quickly and vigorously and I subjected them to the colloidal silver regimen, producing male flowers after about 35 days...I just pollinated a few of the lower branches this evening and I plan on harvesting the top of the plant first as you described and letting the seeds finish on the "stump". ..Looks like it actually might work! If I get seeds they should produce female plants.

if i had time i would try this, good idea

 

[6700]

I think they are talking about photopeirod plants bud. By the time your plant recovers from being harvested its pretty much at the end of its life cycle. You can't re-veg it like you can a photo plant. But even then your still getting pollen from a stressed plant. Offspring will likely hermie as well.

you are probably right, i have no idea how it will work with autoflower vs photoperiod. however if it did work, i do not think the seeds would be hermis, since it was the environment that produced the sex change not genetics. i might be wrong though.

 

[Muddy]

The best, and easiest way to get seeds and buds from the same auto plant is to grow some regular seeds, not fems. Take pollen from a male and use it to pollinate one or two of the lower branches on a female. When the unpollinated buds are ready, harvest them and leave the seeded branches until the seeds are fully mature.