Collecting male pollen

Someone needs to add me to their network!! I feel so left out

pics no worky :/

MAN! This thread is NOTHING without the pix. God dammit, and I need to know how to do this if I want to keep strains going. Well, fuckity fuck, said the bird.

Does VideoMan even sign in any more? Does he know that this thread needs the pics?

Only mods/admins could answer that question. If this were a phpBB board I would be more familiar with the different hacks. I would REALLY like to see those pictures, or get a better description of what he was doing with the containers that he was using for collection at least. Maybe this is a time for fdd2blk.. or Garden Knowm (now there's a guy I haven't seen online for a while). His last POST, that I can find, was Aug. 1 '07.

like if u just let the male grow will u get seeds?

In a nutshell, yes. But you'll get all your buds all full of seeds, and you don't have much control over what crosses, with whom, or when. If you want to keep specific strains, and keep them pure or do your own crossing, or trying to create a strain, you must be able to control which plants fertilize which plants.

Hey guys,

I made a quick diagram based off videoman's initial post. I had to think about the whole cup thing for a minute to figure it out. The diagram is cheesy but I think it gets to the point. Let me know if im wrong on it.



Once the pollen collects on the beer cup you just use a brush or q-tip as suggested to apply it to a few buds.

Hey wookieweed!!!

I had to wonder what videoman40 was trying to describe I think you hit it on the nail. The illustration you cooked up for us fits the description he gave. I'm sure this is what meant for us all to understand.

Rep + for the good job!

QS

What happened to the images?

videoman40 said:

I've been reading alot here lately about males and pollen. I wanted to share with you how I was taught to collect the male pollen, so you dont have to continue buying yr seeds.

There is no need to pollenate a whole grow, this will allow you to selectively pollinate some of your lower bud sites and have seeds without infecting your entire grow. Sorta like having your cake and eating it too.

I do hope that some of you will use this to continue the lines of cannibis we all know and love, strong.

First off... the cutting.... the top of any male you're about to compost....

Next, the set-up, a plastic beer cup, with a hole in the bottom... a glass cup to hold some water....

pop him in...

And into the water cup....

All done.... the nice thing here is, you pop him into a window sill and he'll continue along on his mery way... as he comes to term, the pollen will collect in the bottome of the cup, a tap or 2 every so often can speed the process.... let him go as long as you wish to collect or he finishes....

Collect it all in a film canister... sit it in the window sill for a day or so to make sure it's good and dry and remove the flowers with tweezers..... add some rice to keep dry for storage and you have it... life in a bottle...

Enjoy...

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Thanks for the advice... hey, what happened to the pics?

This is a pretty old thread. If someone has done this since, it would be greatly appreciated if they could post pics of how they did it and if they were successful. Or if they plan on trying it, it would be nice if they took pics.
Thanks

I'll be doing this tomorrow.....genius idea.

Any chance of re-up of picures? Sounds very interesting

wookie weed so basically u need 2 cups a bigger one and a smaller one, the bigger one fill half way with water smaller one cut a small hole in the bottom of it for the stem of the male cola to go through, and the smaller cup will catch all the pollen? is this kinda right

Ive been looking all over the internet for this info but I need the pics. I have a male white widow (his balls are hanging)and a fem ww and not one seed. I might have to move soon so I realy want to grow some seeds. I just pulled a male crystal plant that had lots of hanging balls but he seems to have no pollen at all? Iam growing what I hope is a fem white widow so I realy needed that pollen so Iam bumed. I dont want that guy to knock up my fems but I realy need the pollen. Is there anyone here who has any pics or can guide us? Thanks.

roll it up smoke it up said:

wookie weed so basically u need 2 cups a bigger one and a smaller one, the bigger one fill half way with water smaller one cut a small hole in the bottom of it for the stem of the male cola to go through, and the smaller cup will catch all the pollen? is this kinda right

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I think you got it right bro, I'm gonna give this a try

So the male cutting will stay alive just sitting in that water, and then the pollen eventually releases?

could u repost the pics plz

Pictures dont work anymore