When to start for seeds

[Grow-Da-Herb]

That does seem a little too fast. But then again I've never had an auto male.

Read through my Short Stuff Onyx Auto grow. He was confirmed male at day #19. Six days later I started collecting pollen and by day #38 I chopped him down after collecting .5ml of pollen. He was almost 16 inches tall when he got the blade!

https://www.autoflower.org/f44/1st-...delicious-northern-lights-blue-fem-19340.html

 

[dingo]

You can collect the male pollen and store in a dry place for a few weeks should be OK. Keep pollen away from light, moisture and heat if possible so the pollen has a better chance of virility. Then paint brush or just scatter pollen on some young female buds when you are ready.
Seeds take about 4 weeks to produce viable seeds, so pollination date should be (length of plant life minus 30 days). That will give a good time window of when to pollinate. Males take about 2 weeks from showing sex to producing ready to use pollen.
Hope that helps with your planning. Autos are generally on a set time line to finish up. Photo's can be extended by long day light periods. So Auto pollination should be planned out, so you do not miss the bus.

 

[lr2jd]

Thanks. I would like to take the pollen sacks and do individual branches, but this is a guerrilla grow. I'm going to try and catch it in time to do it, I may not be able to though.

I am planning to do one pollination with each then take that offspring and cross it back to the original mothers (I am saving a couple of the seeds to do this). I ant a little more headlines with the cream caramel and the Bubblegummer. Nl x bb was a freebie but I'm gonna cross it once. It seems like they have started cracking down on online orders from my research, so I wanna have my own seeds.

I guess that was a little off topic but I'm stoned haha. Thanks again.

That's going to be a hard one to pull off guerilla style. I pull my males out of the ground as soon as they show sex, then I move them inside in just a little cup with holes. I only need the pollen, so the rest of the plant I don't care about. Make sure you take the most healthy male who smells the best. If you want to effectively cross back to the mother you should use the actual mother. In AF's that's impossible. But photo-plants can be revegged. If you use another mother, you'll end up with a different phenotype (or not, but the chance is high that some new traits will show). If you move the males, make sure you have about 5KM of distance between them (that's a hike of about an hour) to prevent cross pollination and you prevent the entire plant from catching pollen. You might never know what you'll end up with though, somebody else might have a male planted in or around your location. In our country we have the unwritten rule for growers: keep your males in the forest or indoors, cause you don't want to ruin another one's grow. Keep your pollen to yourself ;-)

 

[Elsambo]

I'm not necessarily looking to actually breed something, just get some seeds. If I want to stabilize something later on, then I will. I've done quite a few photo breeds in my time. I have some techniques for leaving my males out too. You gotta come up with some crazy stuff to do guerrilla breeds haha.

As far as with the different phenos thing you mentioned, that's just how you have to breed an auto. You have to stabilize through a few more generations than you do with photos because you can't keep the mother. The good thing about most of my seeds this year is that they are almost all stable (2 phenos for most). I was looking for something consistent this year. Didn't really feel like looking for the prized pheno in a bag of seeds.

 

[mckb]

hows it going Elsambo?
how old are your spyder?
are they doing well?

 

[Elsambo]

Hey, what's up. Right now they are just under 2 weeks. They are doing awesome. One has definitely taken off quite a bit faster than the rest. I'm going to say it's probably a male, but only time will tell.

Were you the one on IC with the soil and rock wool Spyder?

 

[mckb]

Hey, what's up. Right now they are just under 2 weeks. They are doing awesome. One has definitely taken off quite a bit faster than the rest. I'm going to say it's probably a male, but only time will tell.

Were you the one on IC with the soil and rock wool Spyder?

yes thats me brother.

I am happy to see your posts and I hope you will keep us updated.

thanks, mckb