Colloidal silver no pollen

[Grower2020]

Hi blokes and ladies. Just wondering if anyone can help me as I've tried two different brands of colloidal silver on two different strains and the bananas don't produce pollen. Instead just dying and falling off.
Can anyone please help me produce pure female pollen.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

How was yer process from start to finish

When did u start spraying
How often
When did u stop

 

[Grower2020]

How was yer process from start to finish

When did u start spraying
How often
When did u stop

50ppm colloidal silver.
2-3 times a day.
15-18 days. Stopped spraying when I noticed tiny bananas

 

[Chris Scorpio]

When did u start related to flipping to 12/12, how long after did u spray

 

[Grower2020]

Outdoors. And on one plant I started spraying before flowering and long time after. One plant is covered from top to bottom with bananas but no pollen in mature bananas.
The other plant was about one week into flower when I started spraying. Sane amount of time and consistentcy spraying 2-3 times a day. That plant has bananas now but not fully formed yet

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Start 2 weeks before flip...outside .. well good luck

Spray daily 1x

Spray till BALLS form then about a week or so after that

Minimum I've seen it take is about 25 days of spraying

That said...outside will be a challenge

 

[Grower2020]

I don't see why outdoors would be more challenging than indoors. If anything it should perform better in natural lighting where the plant originated. I believe hydroponics and artificial lighting has weakened the absolute backbone out of cannabis

 

[Chris Scorpio]

The point of CS is timing

Outdoors you don't have a definitive time on when 2 weeks before 12/12 is

But u believe what u want

You asked for help..I'm trying to help based on my successful trys in the past

Good luck

 

[The Celt]

Not sure why you would have sacs forming and not pollen.

Look into GA3, cheap, easy to use but not easy to mix, you need a scale that can weigh 1/100s of a gram.

0.160g (160 mg) will make 1 litre of solution and you’ll not likely use a tenth of it.

 

[Grower2020]

Well two different plants. Two different time frames. ..same outcome. I've seen Vids on YouTube where they don't start spraying until two weeks into flower and they still get pollen

 

[Grower2020]

Not sure why you would have sacs forming and not pollen.

Look into GA3, cheap, easy to use but not easy to mix, you need a scale that can weigh 1/100s of a gram.

0.160g (160 mg) will make 1 litre of solution and you’ll not likely use a tenth of it.

The plants I'm using for breeding are from feminised seeds. Does that make any difference?

 

[The Celt]

Nope, I just harvested self pollinated Blue Dream last month that was treated with GA3.

About 2500 viable seed

 

[Grower2020]

Nope, I just harvested self pollinated Blue Dream last month that was treated with GA3.

About 2500 viable seed

That method sounds pretty complicated. Sounds effective but I'm out of time to do this as I'm 3-4 weeks into flower

 

[Chris Scorpio]

You said u sprayed for 15-18 days...
Try to spray for 25-30 days next time

 

[The Celt]

GA3, Collodial Silver and STS all work by blocking ethylene production and preventing female flowers forming so male flower forms.

Best suggestion is to keep spraying and hope it starts working mate

 

[The Celt]

Got any pictures?

 

[Grower2020]

GA3, Collodial Silver and STS all work by blocking ethylene production and preventing female flowers forming so male flower forms.

Best suggestion is to keep spraying and hope it starts working mate

Thanks. I have some 15ppm left. I just ran out of 50ppm a few days ago so I will begin spraying again for another 5 days or so 3 times a day

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Don't randomly pick a day to stop

Stop when male sacks are fully formed

 

[Grower2020]

The point of CS is timing

Outdoors you don't have a definitive time on when 2 weeks before 12/12 is

But u believe what u want

You asked for help..I'm trying to help based on my successful trys in the past

Good luck

Thanks for the info. I do appreciate it and I'm taking it in just trying to work out why also not just how. Take no offence in me questiong things. Just trying to gain more knowledge by going for the why

 

[Grower2020]

Don't randomly pick a day to stop

Stop when male sacks are fully formed

Well if I may have stopped a little early I have already sprayed today and I will continue to do so for another week and see if I can get pollen. It's all I can do really. It can't hurt to begin spraying again if I've got nothing to lose right?