I'm not really comfortable mixing STS in my apartment anyway. I've thought about it before, but I actually find making CS pretty simple and economic. I have made several tablespoons of it with my own generator and didn't even use them all up to reverse one plant.
But I like the idea of it being less stressful to the plant. I've never been able to get one of the reversed plants to drop a lot of pollen, but they've always been kind of stunted from over-spraying, and my assumption that they don't need to grow healthy to grow male parts. You know you hear people say, "One male flower will pollinate a whole room!" well not in my experience. I had whole clusters of male-flowers and basically violently shook the plant over my females when it was dropping pollen, and I got like 5 seeds out of 5 ounces. I suppose there's the possibility the pollen was sterile, but I wouldn't expect it to make seeds at all if that was the case, I just think it was because there was so little.
I think I need to grow larger male plants for more pollen. Which would seem to be common sense, but like I said I thought just a few male flowers would do it. I'm going to put them in larger pots and let them get much bigger before flowering them, so trying to partition them will need some pretty big cardboard slats--lucky I have plenty of those 'cause I just bought a couple guitars (more like I bought them months ago and have been hoarding the cardboard boxes). But I don't mind if the whole seed plant gets pollinated, because I will be flowering the "less desirable" candidates in the flowering tent while these ones are my seed crop. I just need to keep the strains separated.
The Panama x Malawi #5 and the Maddog (PGSC x Cherry OG) are the ones I'm trying to get S1 seeds of. I was thinking about doing another Panama x Malawi to get one more like the Malawi side of things, but I don't know if I'll like the bud that much, and I don't really like the way the plants grow compared to the Panama side of things, so I'll be trying to self 2-3 different strains to make feminized seeds.
I'm kinda worried though, I apparently knew less about genetics than I thought, and I use to think that an S1 generation of seeds would be more like the plant it was selfed from, but thinking about it more lately after my plant science class I don't see how it makes that much of a difference than crossing F1 male and females together. I mean, when you look at it from a punnet-square type of problem-solving approach it seems like it has the same chances of offspring turning out like the parent. I have to do more reading up on it.
But still, all female seeds, and I don't have actual males to work with, so not like I have a choice lol
