Stew's Breeding Project 2013

MrEDuck said:

I'm doing the same with a whole plant. He's small but should produce a lot of pollen. That is if he ever turns male. I should have started the mom alongside him rather than ahead. Thankfully my BD cut can go forever. I want to get a fairly large number of beans out of this run. I want to cube my BD cut bc she's an amazing plant that has helped me so much I want to share a stable version of her with the world.

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SxIstew said:

I sound so much younger. I like this.
[video=vimeo;73250845]http://vimeo.com/73250845[/video]

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MrEDuck said:

Right now the project is just in my main journal but I'll start one here after I take pictures when I water tomorrow.

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SxIstew said:

depends on the strain.


I removed mine 4 days after they popped and started collecting pollen within a week or 2.

Just don't forget to water them and nute them just because they are males. lol
I made the mistake of thinkin I would have enough viable pollen after a week and stunted both of mine for a week before I got some REAL pollen off them..

Now as I crush the dried up sacs they turn to a yellow powder and I got A LOT! lol.. enough for the next few grows at least without harvesting another male Spyder...



Also I remove my female from the tent when I pollenate. instead of just turning off the fans.

this way you can leave her for a few and if you look in my thread between pages 32 and 39 somewhere Jozikins gives a VERY detailed view of his methods of pollenating...


Let me go find them and I'll post them up in here..

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Jozikins said:

Hell yeah bro, breeding!! I just collected pollen, so I'll give you some tips. Oh, and thanks for the rep! So leaving a piece of paper under the top of the plant takes a while, but it will work and get you the most pollen. But I only plan on hitting 2 or 3 female branches or nugs with each male and that's it. I'll either keep good males as clones after that, or say good bye to the pollen. So for this case, I just collect a little bit real quick. I fold up a piece of paper and stick it under a big male bud with lots of open flowers or opening flowers. You grab the stalk right below the flower and beat the shit out of it against the paper, or just shake it real good. Some flowers will fall off, but so will plenty of pollen, I usually use a leaf or a stem to bat away the male flowers that fell into my pollen. Then I fold up the piece of paper, label it, stick it in a clean jar, label it, and then wipe everything off so it doesn't unintentionally spread.

To control pollinating, cover the plant which you wish to cross with a trash bag, and cut a slit for the desired branch to pollinate. Do your best to keep it well covered and protected. Use a small paint brush to dust your nugs, and then cover with a paper bag and tie shut for 2 days. Make sure each branch that has different pollen on it has a different colored ribbon or a name tag so you can remember the cross. This way you can get 4 different varieties of seeds on 1 plant.

Good luck!

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Jozikins said:

Another good tip is to spray down the plant with plain water everywhere you don't want pollen to stick, and spraying down the branch you pollinated IMMEDIATELY AFTER REMOVING THE BAG. This is just all precautionary, but works very well, I don't know if it's true, but spraying it down may reduce your seed count after removing the bag. Last time I did this on a whole plant I pulled 550 seeds out of a 7 gal, 2 ft plant. Pretty mother fucking good, no matter who you ask.

But I grow in a very tight circle, but I also have an outer circle. All of which are the nice people I meet in person here on RIU, lots of good people on here. Other than that, I've known everyone since High School, if not a lot earlier. Nobody is sketchy, we all keep each other in check, most of us has helped each other out of addictions that developed at one point or another during our friendships. I've never had an addiction issue, well, cigarettes and sex, but that's not a minority, lol.

I started growing in '09 in my first pad, a big ass 3 story. Since then, I've almost never had to buy weed, even in a drought all my circle had weed all the time. Everyone I lived with in that first house was a long time friend, and I taught all those mother fuckers how to grow after I did my first, and they've all been killing it since. Not that I'm a wizard or anything, my friends are just real smart people. The only time I've had to buy some smoke was when I moved far a county away and worked 60-80 hour weeks, usually with 1 or no days off. Counties are huge around here, btw. Even still I managed to do 2 small crops start to finish to smoke on, but there was a pretty big gap between the two, and both got rot and I lost half the crop because they got no attention, and I was in "Little Saigon" and it was fucking humid as shit! I'm not racist by the way, the city literally calls itself "Little Saigon."

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SxIstew said:

Yeah sometime you can speed up the process by increasing the PPM.

Dank taught me this shit bro.. lol
He's got the answers. I'm just putting them to work!

MrEduck- Yeah I would go with 600's if I could. I don't work. I am a stay at home father. my wallet(aka girlfriend) paid for this grow to get going.

If I don't produce enough to keep me from spending a penny out of pocket for the next year, I doubt i'll be getting any updrades. HAHAHA...

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SxIstew said:

I'm smoking street shit now. and by shit I mean FUCKING GARBAGE. but it's all I could find for the time being. lol......

I should have started a little sooner or had more plants the last grow to hold me over... lol.. Oh well. gotta do what you gotta do.

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