Colombian Gold Grow: Come Learn With Me How To Produce Your Own Seeds!

I don't know, Dutch.....LOL I think I was high when the idea struck me to plant some of the CG seeds. Now I've not poured out the top couple inches of the perlite looking for the lost seed, but I'm not seeing it moving it around with tweezers. So maybe I only planted 5 seeds. Who the heck knows. In any case I know with certainty that some of the Colombian Gold seeds will germinate in perlite with 1/4 strength nutrients after being heavily scarified, and a clear solo cup dome on top sitting on a heating pad. How they would do without scarifying them, or germinating them in a glass of water and then paper towels remains to be seen.
 
This post is back on track. I'm still nursing pollen from the Quarter Pounder auto plant. But it's like trying to milk a gnat. I check every morning and every evening right before lights out to see if any new pollen sacks have opened. I'd say I don't have enough experience to give ya'll a scientific explanation of these pollen sacks other then to say they are different then I've dealt with in the past. Once they finally do open the slightest touch and the whole pollen sack falls off the plant. So what I am having to do is grab the open ones instead of trying to tap them to get them to drop their pollen onto my catch card. I grab the pollen sack and hold it over a flower I want to pollinate and lightly tap the tweezers thus knocking any pollen loose. I've had a few instances where the pollen sacks look "normal" and I'm able to tap them as they're hanging. But they just don't have much pollen.

BUT take a look at the three photos that follow. All three of these photos of the Tangerine Dream auto plant I took within the last 20 minutes. The first is one of the in-pollinated buds. Note the pistils still healthy and white. Now look at the next two pictures. These two buds were pollinated 2 days ago.
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If you've made seeds in the past this is what you look for on the buds. If a pistil has been pollinated after it absorbs the pollen it shrivels up and turns color.....brown, orange, red etc. If I were a betting man I would wager that these two buds are pollinated.
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Last week I believe it was I showed you guys a picture of a bud on the Stardawg auto plant showing what I thought/hoped were seeds. I waited until today to VERY LIGHTLY/GENTLY squeezed one and although I'm not 100% sure (didn't want to squeeze harder and hurt what might be a seed) I believe I felt the firmness of a seed inside.

It has taken a fair amount of time (I can't call it work) to get to this point. How will I determine if this project was a success? One of two things will have to happen. First, I make auto flower seeds for future grows....and/or......someone who has followed this thread for the purpose of learning how to make seeds puts that knowledge to work and actually makes seeds. Both would make me very happy.

If I come away with 100 auto flower seeds I will consider this project a success. And being a Cleveland Browns football fan introducing the cross of Quarter Pounder auto with StarDawg auto and coming up with DawgPound auto seeds is just plain fun. :rofl::laugh::ciao::thanks:
 
Looks pregnant to me!
 
Yeah.......that's what you said about the last male I showed pictures of on here!
 
LOL! Must be a thing :).
 
Looks to be on the right track Beez! The colour difference in pistils is very visible!
 
Photos of the StarDawg auto plant that I am pretty darn sure has seeds. I'll be extra patient and wait 5 weeks before plucking one to see what's there. There just aren't enough to waste to take a peek. If it's a seed now it will still be a seed in 5 weeks and most likely mature and plant-able.
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Patience of a saint!
 
I don't know about all that, Shed. I'll say this though, the next time I grow one of these StarDawg seeds it will be in a 10 gallon fabric pot. I've never grown an auto flower plant in anything bigger then a 3 gallon pot. Never had a "big" auto flower plant. So far this one looks like it's going to pack on the crystals, and it has a super nice aroma.
 
I think a 10 gallon pot would be as big as you would need for an auto. I'm not sure whether Preston is in 7's or 10's (my autos are usually 7's) but only the biggest plants are going to use all 10 gallons.
 
Yeah, I'll have to do some research. I always grow small plants, well, because I like growing smaller plants. Easier to handle, they seem to be more tolerant of pretty much everything. The only large auto flower plant I've ever grown was a freakish Fast Buds (from @SeedsMan) Blue Dream auto plant. It started out innocent enough and when it started to flower it started to stretch both up and out and it got pretty darn big. So big it wouldn't fit in my homemade auto flower box and had to be moved outside where nature destroyed it. But that's not the norm. It might be a one time thing, but I want to see what a good quality auto can do in a 8-10 gallon pot. Research may convince me I don't need a pot that big, that it's a waste of medium, nutrients, and energy needed to move the extra size around. We'll see. No more autos till the current little ones I'm trying to seed are finished in about 4-8 weeks (staggered plantings) and make some room.
 
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While packing up a care package for friends last night I had two seeds fall out of some Cinderella Kush. That was a nice surprise. They cured with the bud over the last year. I was surprised to have them come from pods at the intersection of stems/branches.
 
@MrGreene I specifically hunt those seeds on a plant for my personal use. That little light brown calyx right where the branch meets the main stems. Yes Sir! I look for those when harvesting seeds.
 
I thought I was stronger then this.............that I had more resolve and restraint. NOPE! I wasted a perfectly good DawgPound auto seed. BUT, at least now I know some of the pollen is working.
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Oof! But yay!
 
I can't wait for my guest to arrive this coming week. Two things at the top of my "learn how to" list is cobbing and plant/branch support. I just have never really grown a plant that needed to have it's branches supported. This Colombian Gold is nowhere near being done and already the branches are starting to get droopy and sag over a bit.
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The other plants and the tent walls are holding them up now. And yes, I'm sure I could figure out how to do it to where it would work. But there is an okay way and the right way. Why not learn from someone who knows?

And cobbing......I doubt I would eat the fermented bud, and may not smoke it either if it's too potent. But I sure do have a strong desire to learn how to do it just so I know how to do it.
 
The flowers from the Sensi NL X DDA are fully dried. Took 12 days in the fridge in brown lunch bags. The aroma going into the jars is that of DDA buds 3 weeks into curing. I very much look forward to my guest sampling the buds from this cross. Being a fairly big fan of the DDA I'll be curious how she feels the NL X DDA compares. The low and slow kept the purple color pretty well. And I think the buds may be a little firmer then the straight DDA buds.
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beez0404 said:
The flowers from the Sensi NL X DDA are fully dried. Took 12 days in the fridge in brown lunch bags. The aroma going into the jars is that of DDA buds 3 weeks into curing. I very much look forward to my guest sampling the buds from this cross. Being a fairly big fan of the DDA I'll be curious how she feels the NL X DDA compares. The low and slow kept the purple color pretty well. And I think the buds may be a little firmer then the straight DDA buds.
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Wow they look fantastic beez! Well done my friend !
 
Thanks, Dutch. The upcoming taste test will be the determining factor as to whether or not it's a keeper.
 
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