self pollinating to create more seeds.

[nben]

The tortoise race continues.

The clone has started to look like it is beginning to grow some. A look at the roots shows they are growing very well now:



(Sorry the pic is so blurry, it's really dark in the res and the camera couldn't focus that well)

A look above shows growth on top of the clone is beginning to happen. The center (which this piece of junk camera couldn't focus too well on) is really getting some new growth. I believe this new growth is flower, since I spotted the first preflower on her today as well. I started the CS tonight, keeping with the experimental protocol:



Preflowers are starting to get larger and more in number on the mother plant. Sorry I don't have any pics, but I will be posting some on my thread linked earlier in this thread the first part of next week. Either Monday or Tuesday. The branches towards the bottom are just now preflowering, as expected. Hopefully they will hold out until the reversal is done.

I have made a decision too about which branch to pollinate. If there are white flowers still on the top most branches that will receive pollen I will sacrifice one of the best tops. I just feel that these extremely healthy specimens will make the best seeds, even if it means one seeded branch. I have a feeling that this is a tall order though, since the reversal takes time too...

This truly does seem like watching an excruciatingly slow race...

 

[nben]

Howdy guys! I decided to move my experiment to a thread I started many moons ago for reversals in the Aerogarden. I feel like I am hogging the thread with all my rants Anyone who wishes to follow my experiment please do!!!! Here is the link:

https://www.autoflower.org/f117/aerogarden-cs-sex-change-27412-16.html

Thanks so much guys! I am still subbed to this thread and I look forward to seeing what results everyone else obtains!! Best of luck, and I wish everyone much Green Karma!!!!

 

[FreeLivin]

Hello, I have an update on my attempts for pollen and seeds. I've had a few sacks develop over the past few weeks, although I think it might be a lil late for this grow I am still going to try. Today was the first day I got any pollen, one pod looked as if it were about to open so I kindly helped it. I mostly have pods forming on a TD I used a branch on and have just started seeing pods forming on some cuttings I took. Just with the added time for the cuttings I think for this attempt it won't have enough time. However I will keep on trying and post any success. Hopefully it will bare fruit, or seeds but if not I will have pollen for my next grows and a better understanding so I'm not disappointed in the least. Here's a couple pics, such a tiny amount of pollen though you really can't see much of anything. Thanks

 

[thetreeman]

Free, if there are white hairs still, you can pollinate any time pretty much. I pollinated some auto's earlier this summer after I harvest the main plant, just left the bottom few branches and dusted the stamens with pollen I got from a stress forced herm (bad I know but its all I had at the time). Anyway the seeds grew and look really nice. So really its almost never too late if you still have white hairs.

 

[FreeLivin]

Hey Treeman, thanks. About how long did it take to develop seeds? Also had you been flushing before harvest and what did you do after harvesting majority of the plant as far as feeding and nutes go for the remainder of time while seeds developed? Thanks..

 

[thetreeman]

Mine were in soil and were not flushed. Actually most of them were grown guerrilla style and when I harvested the plants I dug them up and transplanted them into small containers. I tried to maintain the rootball and pollinated them the same day. A few were actually flooded and they lost all the soil when I pulled them up. Still they survived transplanting and even started throwing a few new hairs out after a while. They took about 3 weeks after pollination before the seeds were looking good. I let them go another week for good measure, but Im sure if I would have picked them at 3 weeks, they would have been viable. I would put your plant back on some nutes if you are making seeds, maybe a half strength flower?

 

[FreeLivin]

Mine were in soil and were not flushed. Actually most of them were grown guerrilla style and when I harvested the plants I dug them up and transplanted them into small containers. I tried to maintain the rootball and pollinated them the same day. A few were actually flooded and they lost all the soil when I pulled them up. Still they survived transplanting and even started throwing a few new hairs out after a while. They took about 3 weeks after pollination before the seeds were looking good. I let them go another week for good measure, but Im sure if I would have picked them at 3 weeks, they would have been viable. I would put your plant back on some nutes if you are making seeds, maybe a half strength flower?

Thank you sir, I will do just that, I think I might have time for my TDs to just grow normally but the DDs are almost finished so I will use your recommendation and chop most of the plant and leave a few branches to pollinate.

 

[thetreeman]

For example, here is a Budda Magnum I chopped about a month go, left bottom branches and while its not flowering fast and furious, its staying alive and still throwing out hairs here and there. Also it has gotten even frostier than it was when she was chopped, and getting some color in the buds.

 

[FreeLivin]

Hello, little update from me on some seed development. I have been going out every morning and knocking pods over a small glass jar and little by little getting some pollen and using it in areas. This morning while looking at a spot I was under the impression was forming a seed I noticed something interesting, a couple seeds on a small area, then a couple more, throughout the plant in various locations there are seeds forming, I was very excited. I thought it might have been a little late since the plants are telling me they're on their last couple weeks but looks like I might have achieved my goal, even just a little bit is nice, least I learned from this and have a better understanding on when and how I want to do reversals. Thanks, here's a pic and I will update again later after I dry and remove, then again after testing them out. Thanks.

 

[Greenthumbskunk]

I have slowed down autos by over nuting them with nitrogen. I have straight 32% that I use for nitrogen. (Doubt you guys can get this) and I put my autos in 5 gal buckets. I bred some of em and got my seeds I wanted then flushed and started over. Bud production occurred and I just now cut them last week. They were planted in early march.
Getting cold will also slow the plant down.
I personally love breeding plants and see what kind of results I can get.

But it I have yet to figure out why somebody who grows strictly inside would want auto's if they have a veg room. Auto are clearly inferior over all than a regular plant. To me it would be waisted space, time and money.
I have about 30 mother plants that I keep. No way you can do that with an auto.
Auto's have their place like if you needed some quick bud and had nothing but a veg room or was strictly an outside grower and needed some auto's to hold you over till fall. Which is what I do personally until I finish redoing my room.