Hey Feral, I'm gonna be doing some crossing soon. Could you please share with me your method of pollinating plant, and any specific safety procedures you take to keep the pollen contained?
I don't wanna be pollinating every plant I grow for the next year...
Pretty easy mate, just need a separate area to work away from any other flowering girls, never work with pollen before entering the flower area or risk the chance of pollination, I always leave my pollen tent till last of a night. Another thing to stop the spread of pollen is using a carbon filter on the exhaust, I also don't run a circulation fan in there, only air movement is created by the exhaust
Couple of different ways I attack pollination, first way is to collect the pollen over a sheet of glass, give the stem a tap or two and will drop easy, scrape it up with a razor blade and use a paintbrush to apply, will need this method more with the lower nodes as pollen just wont get right in there. Method 2 and I only use it if everything in the tent is getting hit, simply shake the male over the top of the females but as I said earlier it will only really get the top colas, will need a paintbrush or cotton tip to get it right in to the lower sections. Perfect timing to pollinate imo is about a week after they start flowering, kinda around the stage my Gorilla Bomb is at, should give the seeds plenty of time to mature
One thing you want to do is hit it hard with pollen the first time, don't do it in stages or you will end up with seeds all in different development stages, I have done this before and end up with a lot of immature seed that has to be thrown away
So Amazing! Excellent work Feral...I'm drooling over here
Thanks GryphonX12 and welcome bud
Someone's gotta win, sure don't mind it being you brother, your consistently growing beautiful plants!
Thanks bro, a lot of it comes down to the genetics but they really love the nute schedule I'm feeding them, funny thing is they all get the same thing
Tbh I was surprised I got the journal one, so many other great journals out there, imo Grizz's journal should have won it, this journal wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for his journal and everyone in there giving me the incentive to start it