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jrock420

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Well I chopped my male down and put the branches into a cup covered with foil and poked some holes so the branches hang over my black tub to collect the pollen. Some pollen fell already so I figured it was a safe time to cut it down. I was told numerous times how careful I should be about pollinating my whole garden accidentally but I don't really have a problem finding seeds in my own stash especially since they're of known origin. I'm still gonna be careful as possible tho. I imagine having the male in my bathroom I should be pretty safe. I assume I'll find a few stray beans here and there tho from stray pollen. No biggie.
 
Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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jrock420 said:
Well I chopped my male down and put the branches into a cup covered with foil and poked some holes so the branches hang over my black tub to collect the pollen. Some pollen fell already so I figured it was a safe time to cut it down. I was told numerous times how careful I should be about pollinating my whole garden accidentally but I don't really have a problem finding seeds in my own stash especially since they're of known origin. I'm still gonna be careful as possible tho. I imagine having the male in my bathroom I should be pretty safe. I assume I'll find a few stray beans here and there tho from stray pollen. No biggie.
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Hey, between my 2 patios I have a 10 ft long hall with doors open on both sides...males on back patio, females on the front. If I just leave them alone I may get a few beans but no more than a handfull, just from the bees and other flying bugs and maybe the breeze, but its not like its pollinating the whole crop....
 
jrock420

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Vnsmkr said:
Hey, between my 2 patios I have a 10 ft long hall with doors open on both sides...males on back patio, females on the front. If I just leave them alone I may get a few beans but no more than a handfull, just from the bees and other flying bugs and maybe the breeze, but its not like its pollinating the whole crop....
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For sure vool beans. Yeah I don't mind a few strays. I imagine the horror stories come from fools leaving a male in the same room as the females and don't pay attention to pollen falling. I like this system cause it allows me to grow out a male at a time and use it as I need. Then I don't need a whole other room for males.

I am getting Thai food later and on the dessert menu was sticky mango rice I wanna say it was called. Reminded me of that purple sticky rice.
 
jrock420

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I dropped 3 gorrila grape seeds. I'm curious about the flavors. Vino og was apparently bred to be infused into a companies wine. I read that they special bred it to pare well with their grapes of choice. I dont know shit about wine except how to drink it. Anyway it's vino og x gg4. I hope it's some gassy grape kinda funk.
 
WindyCityKush

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Vnsmkr said:
Hey, between my 2 patios I have a 10 ft long hall with doors open on both sides...males on back patio, females on the front. If I just leave them alone I may get a few beans but no more than a handfull, just from the bees and other flying bugs and maybe the breeze, but its not like its pollinating the whole crop....
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I must say , my gf and I were looking at your patios on IG, we love them. And the entire garden looks healthy , and such beautiful plants too.
 
Vnsmkr

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About to post a few more. They are pretty ugly right now with the reveg action happening. I had a couple plants flowering early on with this group so they didnt gets lights on until a month or so in and thats the reason for it. The Green Crack was caught before it started flowering obviously. But in the end, should have some decent little plants, they are building up.
 
sandhill larry

sandhill larry

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jrock420 said:
Well I chopped my male down and put the branches into a cup covered with foil and poked some holes so the branches hang over my black tub to collect the pollen. Some pollen fell already so I figured it was a safe time to cut it down. I was told numerous times how careful I should be about pollinating my whole garden accidentally but I don't really have a problem finding seeds in my own stash especially since they're of known origin. I'm still gonna be careful as possible tho. I imagine having the male in my bathroom I should be pretty safe. I assume I'll find a few stray beans here and there tho from stray pollen. No biggie.
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You can mist all the girls near by with water before you mess with the male. And wash you hands after handling him. Water will kill the pollen. I got a few seeds from my BP plant in 2015, and the closest male was about a mile away. It had to have been pollen on my hands or clothes.
 
jrock420

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sandhill larry said:
You can mist all the girls near by with water before you mess with the male. And wash you hands after handling him. Water will kill the pollen. I got a few seeds from my BP plant in 2015, and the closest male was about a mile away. It had to have been pollen on my hands or clothes.
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Yeah male pollen will cling to shit like ur clothes and skin. Allot of big dudes will shower and change clothes before going to work in the female room after working with the males. I've heard stories of dudes with no males on the land that are lightly pollinated by neighbors having males they are working with. Plus outdoors a bee could visit someone's male and visit ur female.
 
sandhill larry

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jrock420 said:
Water is the only way I've heard of eradicating unwanted male pollen on females since water will kill and or render the male pollen useless.
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It will also fuck up wanted pollen. I had a CPDA male in a patch that was really tricky to get to. There was only one day of the week I could hike in to check on them. For two week running I went and cut shoots off the male and dusted the two female CPDA's there, Both times there was a huge thunderstorm just minutes after I did it. I still have a few ounces to go though, but so far I haven't found a single seed off those two plants.
 
jrock420

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sandhill larry said:
It will also fuck up wanted pollen. I had a CPDA male in a patch that was really tricky to get to. There was only one day of the week I could hike in to check on them. For two week running I went and cut shoots off the male and dusted the two female CPDA's there, Both times there was a huge thunderstorm just minutes after I did it. I still have a few ounces to go though, but so far I haven't found a single seed off those two plants.
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That's mother nature for you lol. Hopefully you find at least a few.
 
jrock420

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I think I might just collect the dry pollen onto q tips and store them for later use instead of trying to dick around and scrape it up into a pile to try to get into a bag lol. I imagine one qtip can pollinate a bunch of female bud sites with millions of grains of pollen on the tip.

I fucked around this morning and did a couple dabs of pollen onto my lemon garlic og, disco funk, black dog pheno 3, walle plant, terp smoothie, orkle, and sour kosher. Just small selected tops that i taped to signify theyre seeded. They have 4+ weeks left so I may harvest the buds and leave the seeded buds in flowers just another week or so to ensure the seeds are good. I shoulda hit them earlier I know but I figure 4 to 5 weeks the seeds have to finish so I'm cutting it close but I still hope to be ok. It's a learning process so if I fucked up oh well. Won't do it again lol. I got clones of the male already rooted for more pollen lol.
 
WindyCityKush

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jrock420 said:
I think I might just collect the dry pollen onto q tips and store them for later use instead of trying to dick around and scrape it up into a pile to try to get into a bag lol. I imagine one qtip can pollinate a bunch of female bud sites with millions of grains of pollen on the tip.

I fucked around this morning and did a couple dabs of pollen onto my lemon garlic og, disco funk, black dog pheno 3, walle plant, terp smoothie, orkle, and sour kosher. Just small selected tops that i taped to signify theyre seeded. They have 4+ weeks left so I may harvest the buds and leave the seeded buds in flowers just another week or so to ensure the seeds are good. I shoulda hit them earlier I know but I figure 4 to 5 weeks the seeds have to finish so I'm cutting it close but I still hope to be ok. It's a learning process so if I fucked up oh well. Won't do it again lol. I got clones of the male already rooted for more pollen lol.
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Never used the pollen but to collect it, I put the male sacs that were ready to bust into a plastic baggie. Next day, yellow dust in the corner of said baggie. Worked perfect.
Edit...i really wanted to use the strawberry pollen for fun but was too scared, especially when this is an important harvest
 
Vnsmkr

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WindyCityKush said:
Never used the pollen but to collect it, I put the male sacs that were ready to bust into a plastic baggie. Next day, yellow dust in the corner of said baggie. Worked perfect.
Edit...i really wanted to use the strawberry pollen for fun but was too scared, especially when this is an important harvest
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If thats the same pollen Im thinking I wouldnt have that shit anywhere near my garden...I still cant believe no one has said anything "publicly" about the way those plants "act".....
 
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