Seed run completed
Well, the seed run is completed.
First a quick review.
- The strain was Dinamed Auto CBD Kush
- The separate stud plant was started ~3 weeks before dropping mother plant seed.
- The CS solution was home made, produced as described in the page on the el cheapo generator elsewhere in this blog. Note well ye who buy their CS online in 30ml bottles - I used about 1800ml of CS solution on this reversal, and according to the information I dug up on making this stuff, my solution was fully saturated with colloidal particles. I very much doubt that the tiny supplies of CS sold online would be as effective.
- The stud plant completely soaked down with hand sprayer once a day at lights out until male flowers were well established, but not until pollen was evident.
- The stud plant was finished in its own grow space elsewhere in the house, and the mother plant was moved to the stud location for pollenation.
- Once pollen was evident, I collected balls, dried them, ground them in weed grinder, and sifted them to get rid of most of the bud debris.
- Pollen was applied to mother plant with a Q tip,
- Pollen was applied only twice, to two lower branches, one with a cola maybe six inches or so long in total, the other maybe four inches.
- The mother was sprayed down with water to kill stray pollen and left for a few hours before moving her back into the growdrobe with the other plants.
- Most of the mother was chopped for CBD bud a month or so after pollen was applied to lower branches.
- Pollenated branches were harvested ~8 weeks after pollenation.
- Only 10-20%, at a rough guess, of pollenated flowers produced seeds. The harvest on these two small branches could have been lots higher.
And the results are:
A total of 230 good seeds, one seed rejected for small size and light colour. Thus far, I have not found a single seed on any other branch of the mother plant, or on other plants in the same growdrobe, so doing a couple of branches on a mother plant can be done safely as long as the stud is isolated, and pollenation is done in isolation.
Next time around, I will do a couple things differently:
1. I may cook the CS solution just a bit longer until the amber color begins to get a bit more noticeable and the EC reading gets up to 40 or so.
2. I will continue CS application all the way until I see evidence of pollen instead of stopping after male flowers are well established. I suspect that stopping the hormonal affects of the CS earlier may reduce pollen production. Just a theory mind you...
3. I will apply pollen more times over a longer time period to try to get more flowers pollenated.
If I do a germination test, I will update this later.
Happy seed making peeps.
First a quick review.
- The strain was Dinamed Auto CBD Kush
- The separate stud plant was started ~3 weeks before dropping mother plant seed.
- The CS solution was home made, produced as described in the page on the el cheapo generator elsewhere in this blog. Note well ye who buy their CS online in 30ml bottles - I used about 1800ml of CS solution on this reversal, and according to the information I dug up on making this stuff, my solution was fully saturated with colloidal particles. I very much doubt that the tiny supplies of CS sold online would be as effective.
- The stud plant completely soaked down with hand sprayer once a day at lights out until male flowers were well established, but not until pollen was evident.
- The stud plant was finished in its own grow space elsewhere in the house, and the mother plant was moved to the stud location for pollenation.
- Once pollen was evident, I collected balls, dried them, ground them in weed grinder, and sifted them to get rid of most of the bud debris.
- Pollen was applied to mother plant with a Q tip,
- Pollen was applied only twice, to two lower branches, one with a cola maybe six inches or so long in total, the other maybe four inches.
- The mother was sprayed down with water to kill stray pollen and left for a few hours before moving her back into the growdrobe with the other plants.
- Most of the mother was chopped for CBD bud a month or so after pollen was applied to lower branches.
- Pollenated branches were harvested ~8 weeks after pollenation.
- Only 10-20%, at a rough guess, of pollenated flowers produced seeds. The harvest on these two small branches could have been lots higher.
And the results are:
A total of 230 good seeds, one seed rejected for small size and light colour. Thus far, I have not found a single seed on any other branch of the mother plant, or on other plants in the same growdrobe, so doing a couple of branches on a mother plant can be done safely as long as the stud is isolated, and pollenation is done in isolation.
Next time around, I will do a couple things differently:
1. I may cook the CS solution just a bit longer until the amber color begins to get a bit more noticeable and the EC reading gets up to 40 or so.
2. I will continue CS application all the way until I see evidence of pollen instead of stopping after male flowers are well established. I suspect that stopping the hormonal affects of the CS earlier may reduce pollen production. Just a theory mind you...
3. I will apply pollen more times over a longer time period to try to get more flowers pollenated.
If I do a germination test, I will update this later.
Happy seed making peeps.
- Next page: Final Tally, Grow is completed
- Previous page: Feb 18 update - more chopping, Northern lights moved to 2x4.
