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Operation Pollen Harvest #3

Did the 3rd round of pollen collection tonight. I am amazed at how much pollen this dude is producing. I will end up with A LOT of pollen. Another week and I will start doing some cross pollination.

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Jeez wish I had got that much when doing my feminized pollen!
 
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Jeez wish I had got that much when doing my feminized pollen!

Yeah that would be awesome to get that much pollen for a feminization run. Not sure how pollen a single cola makes via STS, might have to find out next year.
 
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A good bit actually

And that's pure pollen too, not mixed with flour. I am certainly learning a lot about the male plant with this grow.
 
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I have a ton myself from my Skunk#1.... And should have some kilamanjaro in a month or so.....it is s fun experience for sure
 
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I have so many seeds forming on the ATF 1.1 girl I am breeding next to the male. Every bud is just full of the seed pods swelling up. I am afraid they are going to start popping and landing in the pot. What is your general harvest method for seeds Penny
 
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I have so many seeds forming on the ATF 1.1 girl I am breeding next to the male. Every bud is just full of the seed pods swelling up. I am afraid they are going to start popping and landing in the pot. What is your general harvest method for seeds Penny

I used a ziplock back cut diagonally so that I could close the zip-lock around the stem, and the rest of the bag would go around the bud like a shroud. Double benefit of protecting the buds around it from the pollen on it if you only want to pollinate one bud, and then you can flip the bag upside down so that any seeds that fall out of it collect in it.

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For the most part though I never had a problem with them falling out of the buds while still on the plant. However when I'd cut and trim then hang them to dry ( yeah I do it backwards ) a couple will fall out into the bottom of my drying-box. Actually a really good way to catch ones you don't notice, I only got 5 seeds trying to do a CS reversal with the male open pollinating.


A little pollen goes a LONG way. I tried to find a picture of how much pollen I used the first time I got seeds, but it was seriously such a small amount you could have compared it to the size of a BB. More like the BBs in birdshot even. Ridiculously small amount, I cut it up with corn starch just so I could disperse it easier and more widely on a bud. Ended up with about 40 seeds with just that tiny amount.
 
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Are you going to harvest the buds Van, it just use for the seeds

Well, I don't really have a plan yet LOL. I was planning on watching and seeing how the plant reacts. I thought of possibly using the buds in oil, but not really to smoke since I have a whole tent full upstairs. So I am kind of leaning towards making oil out of her, but nothing set in stone yet...
 
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I used a ziplock back cut diagonally so that I could close the zip-lock around the stem, and the rest of the bag would go around the bud like a shroud. Double benefit of protecting the buds around it from the pollen on it if you only want to pollinate one bud, and then you can flip the bag upside down so that any seeds that fall out of it collect in it.

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For the most part though I never had a problem with them falling out of the buds while still on the plant. However when I'd cut and trim then hang them to dry ( yeah I do it backwards ) a couple will fall out into the bottom of my drying-box. Actually a really good way to catch ones you don't notice, I only got 5 seeds trying to do a CS reversal with the male open pollinating.


A little pollen goes a LONG way. I tried to find a picture of how much pollen I used the first time I got seeds, but it was seriously such a small amount you could have compared it to the size of a BB. More like the BBs in birdshot even. Ridiculously small amount, I cut it up with corn starch just so I could disperse it easier and more widely on a bud. Ended up with about 40 seeds with just that tiny amount.

Yeah I am expecting several hundred seeds honestly. I have the two plants in the small tent so every pollen sack that bursts on its own has instant access to pistils. Not to mention that after I take the male plant out of the tent and collect his pollen, I set it back down and blow any lingering pollen on the leaves back into the tent and onto the female. Its a cloud of pollen every time I do that. I have red hairs every where and swelling seed pouches dominate the buds. I will try to take the breeding female out out of the tent and put it under regular light and get some good pictures today.

My fear is that she started getting pollen so early in her flowering cycle and she is a 10 week flowerer (assuming she is like her mom), I am not sure if any of the seeds from the early pollination are going to finish before that 10 week flower period is up, and if so...will the seeds start popping out on their own.

Now my last question for anyone who has done this before is....will the buds continue to grow like in normal flower and will they continue to produce new pistils that can be pollinated. This has me wondering if I should wait for the buds to get bigger to pollinate in the future. It looks like the buds are stacking but with so much pollen being produced I can never see if there are any additional white pistils being produced.
 
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Had to catch up but I love reading your Journal, it's always like science class LOL. Your tent looks amazing as usual.
 
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Had to catch up but I love reading your Journal, it's always like science class LOL. Your tent looks amazing as usual.

Thanks Guy, the only way you truly learn is to try things and then try them different ways, see what the different factors do to the overall process.
 
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I wish I had the problem of seeds falling from the sky ;). Can't wait to see how your crosses come out Van
 
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I wish I had the problem of seeds falling from the sky ;). Can't wait to see how your crosses come out Van

I am going to wait another week to two weeks before I cross pollinate the other three strains as well as pollinate one of the ATF 2 females (that will give me seeds from both pheno females I cloned). LOL, I am looking forward to having seeds popping all over the place (hopefully). Hope you have a great weekend Dabber!!
 
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I have so many seeds forming on the ATF 1.1 girl I am breeding next to the male. Every bud is just full of the seed pods swelling up. I am afraid they are going to start popping and landing in the pot. What is your general harvest method for seeds Penny

I just hang dry like normal then harvest seeds all in one shot then make oil or hash from the shake
 
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I just hang dry like normal then harvest seeds all in one shot then make oil or hash from the shake

Will any of the early pollinated seeds pop out prior to that harvest? And will the buds still continue to produce new pistils to pollinate?
 
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I never let them go before, once i see the calyx split open i chop them
 
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I never let them go before, once i see the calyx split open i chop them

I guess I will experiment on them then and see if they will keep growing or if the act of being pollinated makes them stop producing future pistils LOL. And watch for seeds falling from the sky!!!
 
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