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A thread back from the dead... However, FWIW:
You definitely do not want a pollen plant left in your tent. If you do that, everything in there will get pollenated.
What I do is put the pollen plant(s) in another room in the basement under their own led. No fancy tent, no tent at all really, just some white cardboard taped as walls for a bit of reflection. The LED light is just seven screwin bulbs with the globes removed and mounted in one of these:
DiCUNO 7 in 1 E26 Light Socket Splitter Adapter, 6+1 Socket Converter Bulb Lamp Holder 360 Degrees Adjustable 180 Degrees Bending : Amazon.ca: Tools & Home Improvement
I start the pollen plant(s) a couple weeks ahead so I collect pollen at about the time the seed mom is ready. I keep the pollen plants small with a small pot and trimming, and CS the entire plant liberally once a day until balls actually start to show signs of opening. On my current grow I reversed two plants, and likely used ~ three liters of CS during the process. I make my own CS fresh. The tiny bottles you can buy are not the answer in my opinion, although some growers here make them work. I move the pollen plant(s) out of the main grow area as soon as they start showing sex, by which time daily soaking with CS has been underway for a few days. So far, I have reversed Mephisto Fugue State (heavy sativa), Mephisto 24 Carat (heavy indica), and Dinamed Auto CBD Kush (pure CBD, indica leaning). None produced a lot of pollen, but it does not take much.
If the seed plant(s) can be moved, I pollenate it in the other room and then spray it down with water after three or so hours to kill any stray pollen before moving it back to the tent. If the plant can't be moved (as in my current grow), I install a cloth bag over the target branch, and apply pollen into the bag with a needle syringe. After a couple hours, I turn off all the fans, spray the area around the bag down with water, remove the bag slowly while spraying the emerging branch down as the bag is removed. I also start with the bag being damp when I apply pollen, so any pollen falling onto the inside of the bag during application will be killed. I expect that my sloppy technique this time will result in a few extra seeds elsewhere, but I am not worried about that. The branches I applied pollen to with the bag/syringe tech are chock-a-block with seeds. I never pollenate more than one branch, the rest of the seed plant is left to produce harvestable bud. Once I have my pollen, the pollen plants are binned. Even with one branch pollenated, I end up with more seeds than I will ever be able to grow.
After my current run, I will have a nice stash of Dinamed Auto CBD Kush seeds from the last grow, some Dinamed Auto CBD Kush x Dinamed Auto CBD seeds made by @GeorgeCloney with some of my pollen, and Mephisto 24 Carat and Fugue State seeds from the current soil grow. Just to add to the seed mischief this time around, I pollenated a branch of my solo Canuk Auto PK (another heavy indica that I originally chose for sleep) with pollen from the freezer that I kept from this grow's 24c pollen girl - A bit of pollen chucking while playing with the solos... The PKx24c cross should be interesting, both strains are among the best I have found for sleep, so the cross might be quite nice. I will likely try a solo or two of the cross next grow as a test. I doubt that I will need more 24C bud next grow given the size of the two finishing off at the moment. We shall see.
Good luck with your seed projects peeps.
You definitely do not want a pollen plant left in your tent. If you do that, everything in there will get pollenated.
What I do is put the pollen plant(s) in another room in the basement under their own led. No fancy tent, no tent at all really, just some white cardboard taped as walls for a bit of reflection. The LED light is just seven screwin bulbs with the globes removed and mounted in one of these:
DiCUNO 7 in 1 E26 Light Socket Splitter Adapter, 6+1 Socket Converter Bulb Lamp Holder 360 Degrees Adjustable 180 Degrees Bending : Amazon.ca: Tools & Home Improvement
I start the pollen plant(s) a couple weeks ahead so I collect pollen at about the time the seed mom is ready. I keep the pollen plants small with a small pot and trimming, and CS the entire plant liberally once a day until balls actually start to show signs of opening. On my current grow I reversed two plants, and likely used ~ three liters of CS during the process. I make my own CS fresh. The tiny bottles you can buy are not the answer in my opinion, although some growers here make them work. I move the pollen plant(s) out of the main grow area as soon as they start showing sex, by which time daily soaking with CS has been underway for a few days. So far, I have reversed Mephisto Fugue State (heavy sativa), Mephisto 24 Carat (heavy indica), and Dinamed Auto CBD Kush (pure CBD, indica leaning). None produced a lot of pollen, but it does not take much.
If the seed plant(s) can be moved, I pollenate it in the other room and then spray it down with water after three or so hours to kill any stray pollen before moving it back to the tent. If the plant can't be moved (as in my current grow), I install a cloth bag over the target branch, and apply pollen into the bag with a needle syringe. After a couple hours, I turn off all the fans, spray the area around the bag down with water, remove the bag slowly while spraying the emerging branch down as the bag is removed. I also start with the bag being damp when I apply pollen, so any pollen falling onto the inside of the bag during application will be killed. I expect that my sloppy technique this time will result in a few extra seeds elsewhere, but I am not worried about that. The branches I applied pollen to with the bag/syringe tech are chock-a-block with seeds. I never pollenate more than one branch, the rest of the seed plant is left to produce harvestable bud. Once I have my pollen, the pollen plants are binned. Even with one branch pollenated, I end up with more seeds than I will ever be able to grow.
After my current run, I will have a nice stash of Dinamed Auto CBD Kush seeds from the last grow, some Dinamed Auto CBD Kush x Dinamed Auto CBD seeds made by @GeorgeCloney with some of my pollen, and Mephisto 24 Carat and Fugue State seeds from the current soil grow. Just to add to the seed mischief this time around, I pollenated a branch of my solo Canuk Auto PK (another heavy indica that I originally chose for sleep) with pollen from the freezer that I kept from this grow's 24c pollen girl - A bit of pollen chucking while playing with the solos... The PKx24c cross should be interesting, both strains are among the best I have found for sleep, so the cross might be quite nice. I will likely try a solo or two of the cross next grow as a test. I doubt that I will need more 24C bud next grow given the size of the two finishing off at the moment. We shall see.
Good luck with your seed projects peeps.
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