Keeping a male and female together?

Bees?

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So I recently started flowering my first grow ever. I didn't do a whole lot of research before I started, so I ended up planting three seeds in one long planter pot, two of which ended up sprouting and growing up. By sheer luck, one of them ended up being female and one is male, which is actually really convenient as I was hoping to get some new seeds for my next round (which I plan on doing properly this time, lol)

Problem is, I don't want to let my male pollinate my entire female--Ive got five good colas (I did lots of topping) and ideally I'd like to pollinate two of those. I've read up on selective pollination, but all the guides I've read involve keeping the pollen-producing male in a seperate room, and like I said, my plants are potted together. Is there any way that I can neuter my male while still retaining enough pollen to pollinate a couple of the female's buds? Or is this going to end up being an all or nothing deal?
 

Bareback

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I'm not disagreeing with Dr.

But you can take some cuttings and put them in some water in another room.

Also could remove all but one limb and place a Ziploc bags over the flower
 

GroErr

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Take clones off the female and cull it, then eventually selectively pollinate the clones. Or take clones off the female and let the main plant get a bunch of seeds. Not seeing many other options.
 

Uberknot

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Once it drops some pollen, depending on how much ,flowers will get seeded.

If you can check and control it you can partially seed the earliest flowers on a female.

I have grown young males and females together a couple times it's tricky and you really have to watch them closely.

If Females have flowered too long though you could end up with a ton of seeds everywhere.

In that case best to move the male away from the females as soon as you see the males flowers.

Ohh......it's in the same pot.....

Ok in this case you can cut the male down when the flowers have not dropped yet, but are almost ready to open and put into water somewhere else and allow some flowers to open and gather some pollen and selectively pollinate the branches.

It's still tricky....because if you cut the male too early it won't be ready to drop pollen.

SO timing is very important.

Cloning the female and separating that way would work if you want to keep the male alive.
 
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Father Ramirez

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As mentioned already, it's tricky and not a reliable method, but I have gotten lucky in this situation and done alright. Good advice already given above.
I will add
- modify your fan set up to reduce the air flow to just enough to wiggle the leaves. Have air going only one direction, and position the pot so that the girl is upwind of the boy. Good luck.
 
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