warrenb
Well-Known Member
Dont panic OG you are fairly safe they will all be female.I bought 5 dinafem autos white widow and 2 big buddah blue cheese wtf?
Good luck with them.
Dont panic OG you are fairly safe they will all be female.I bought 5 dinafem autos white widow and 2 big buddah blue cheese wtf?
If they are stated to be feminized, they are female. However there are a few varieties that are available from some companies that are regular seeds. It should have stated in the description on the website you bought from.So auto flowers are not guaranteed to be female?
That's great, that you got so many seeds. Just make sure you let them fully ripen. It might just be the picture, but they look a bit light. If they are mature, they are usually a bit darker with even darker stripes.I took a few seeds off one of the plants I put on here a week or so ago. I then estimated both plants should be good for 300 plus seeds. I will change that estimate to 1000 plus seeds as the 111 I took of this morning didnt even scratch the surface.
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Thanks very much for that EverythingsHazy I do appreciate your input. Every seed I have pulled so far are darker than the ones I bought. I know that doesnt make it right.I will take on board what you have said and more or less leave them until they drop.That's great, that you got so many seeds. Just make sure you let them fully ripen. It might just be the picture, but they look a bit light. If they are mature, they are usually a bit darker with even darker stripes.
If you didn't intentionally pollinate them, or have a male/reversed female in the house, then they are probably "hermie" created seeds. You can grow them and pick out any possible pollen sacs, but I wouldn't use them for breeding.I just chopped 2 fem autos and found 2 seeds in them! Any thoughts on this? Will they also be fem?
LmaoooI was not happy with seed 2 from the start. It really didn't perform how one would like. Seed two is no longer.
I owned a dog called Tazz, past away 2 yrs ago.Good luck Tazz. I wish you many Female seeds.
For what it's worth I knew a dog called Tazz, she was very special.
I agree that some of the conventional methods that let the pollen fall out on its own, don't work as well with reversed females, as they do with regular males.There must be a better way to collecting the pollen from a fem sprayed. It is not the same as a reg. male where you can just shake and it falls off, I am hand picking most male flowers form inside the female calyxes.
Putting the plant over a plate to collect does not work well either as very minimal will fall.
Can some members who create there own pollen share a better way of collecting.
Thanks
Thanks for sharing that information with me, well appreciatedI agree that some of the conventional methods that let the pollen fall out on its own, don't work as well with reversed females, as they do with regular males.
The good news, is that you really don't need a lot, so what you can do, is wait until the flowers are open and falling off when you shake the branch. That ensures they are mature. Shake the branch around over a plate, and then hand pick some stamens out while throwing away the remaining parts of the pollen sacs (they contain moisture). Let them sit out for a day or so to dry out, and then tap them with a credit card edge, or something thin, but not so sharp that it cuts them. They should shoot out little puffs of pollen. It's tedious, but honestly, using tweezers and both hands, to do this to each individual stamen, is more effective than trying to smash them all up, because if there is any moisture, it will cause your pollen to clump and be ruined. If you do this over glass, you can use a razor to push all the pollen into a small pile. Even a very little bit will get you hundreds of seeds.