Auto Feminized Seed Crop

lowblower said:

whats up trousers? I've come to pick your brains again.....

I got an autoxtreme that has popped up male sack everywhere after colloidal silver treatment. Some of the sacks have swelled up and some have opened and the yellow bananas are sticking out. BUT when I tap the branch over a black surface, nothing falls down. I heard somewhere briefly that not all the pollen sacks will produce pollen on a hermie, so is that what is happeneing to me? Or will the pollen just miraculously appear oon those bananas if I give them time? Whats your usual success rate with gettin female pollen?

I cut the stems off the plant and put them in a cup so I have removed them from the growroom, so now im just gonna wait and see what happens :-/ Will suck if I don't get anything from her tho! Thanks

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omar924 said:

im having the same problem. i see the balls open but have yet to see pollen anywhere

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Scotty Pot Seed said:

If you choose to spray just one branch, can you simply remove the branch after it's grown balls ( to avoid late punk seeds), let it dry, then pollinate the same plant with its own dead limb then freeze the rest? Is there a time frame to harvest balls before they crack open? I want to selectively pollinate the rest of the plant the balls grew from but not the others in the room.

What if any techniques do you have for pollinating a single branch? I read long ago about putting pollin in a bag and sticking a flowering branch in and shaking the bad around. I am afraid I would get rogue pollen blown off the branch as soon as the fans kicked back on. I can deal with a few rogues but not wanting to seen my whole crop.

Could a small paint brush be used? A fine point maybe dipped in water then basically touch a tiny bit of pollen to get it to stick to the tip then "paint" the pollen onto choice buds directly?

Any advise is much appreciated. I am preparing now to do this to the next crop.

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Trousers said:

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I went on vacation and get back to a bunch of seeds that have fallen off the buds. I had someone tending them while I was gone.
So far, without properly drying the seeds, I have had every single one germinate. I have 40 over at a friend's house and they all germinated. I am only growing one in my backyard, a Lowryder/Autoberry.

I haven't gone through the seeds that much. I probably got a 3-5 hundred viable seeds from each plant.

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Trousers said:

Some advice:

-Do it. It is not hard. You can spray just one branch so you don't completely infest your buds. If You spray a lower branch, the tops might not get any seeds.

-Do not listen to people who have not made a Feminized seed crop. There are a ton of people willing to give you advice that have never done this before. If I had a dollar for every time some one told me my seeds are going to produce herms...

-I would suggest using the spray Tiresias Mist. It is only $20 on ebay. It is cheap to produce your own, but you probably will not get the ppm that high. I have not produced my own colloidal silver, so I can not speak to it. I thought about producing colloidal silver, then heating it to make some water evaporate to raise the ppm. I have read that low ppm colloidal silver can sometimes produce pollen sacks that have to be manually opened. For $20 I thought it was worth it to get colloidal silver that really works. (I am not pimping Tiresias Mist for any reason other than it works and is not that expensive.)

-If you are going for a seed crop and not looking to selectively pollinate, start your prospective father a week earlier than the rest of the plants.

-Do not spray the entire plant, even if you want a seed crop. You want the father to have some bud sites for some self-pollinated seeds. These are going to be the most stable seeds, basically clones in seed form.

I would be happy to answer any questions on this subject, either by PM or on this thread.

A couple weeks ago I got a regular Blueberry and an Island Sweet Skunk clone to be turned into shemales for selectively pollinating my friend's outdoor plants. This winter I should have about 26-30 different crosses, all fathered by ISS or Blueberry. I can not wait.

Some of the plants to be crossed with ISS and Blueberry shemales:
skunkberry
green crack (hate the name, love the pot)
pre '98 bubba kush
a bubba kush/black kush cross
bubblegum
haze x g13
grandaddy purple
hash plant
durban poison
I'm drawing a blank on the rest.

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Trousers said:

snoopster was banned by that asshole pasaio for asking why a thread was deleted. He didn't want to admit a mistake, so he banned me.
It is their site, if they want to be douchebags that is their hot mess.

The first plant I sprayed the whole thing, twice a day. It was stunted and looked scraggly, but it put out a ton of pollen. The problem with spraying the whole plant is that it didn't have a chance to self pollinate as there were really no good bud sites. I tried drying and freezing some of it. I will see if it works on the next auto batch.

I have been spraying just one branch on some regular plants. I probably should have sprayed more, but I wanted them to self. i used a piece of cardboard to keep the spray off of other branches.

I'm going to make another seed batch using two regular clones. I think this will work well.

I'll get two clones and veg them for a week or so then start spraying one. I will spray that clone on half of more of the plant (the shemale).
7-10 days after spraying I will switch to 12/12 BUT take the unsprayed clone and put it in a different veg room under about 16 hours of light.
After a week or so I will bring the unsprayed back and put it with the shemale in 12/12.

The spray stunts the plant a bit. Giving it an extra week in 12/12 should help even it out.

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