Schwaggy P
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@schwaggyP terpene charts & diagrams complete with pictures & arrows would not surprise me.
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Schwaggy P
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She was the shortest pheno and had a light natural grape to the smell/taste.
reallybigjesusfreak
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so when you do the pollen that way, do you put the pollen in the bag, and then put it on the branch? If so, have you ever found other branches being contaminated? the only method I've found to work for me is putting a bag over the entire plant, taping the hole shut, drawing it tight so ONLY the one branch is out, then I paint pollen on that branch, give it 20 minutes, wet it down. So far this seems to work, but previous, sloppier attempts (without tape) have ended up with pollen on a lot of branches.
Am I just overthinking it? thanks.
Schwaggy P
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I use a brush to "paint" the pollen on the branch. I don't have stray pollen cause issues. By brushing on "just enough", there really isn't too much to travel to unwanted branches. I've had an occasional stray seed, but it's not a regular occurrence. Here's what I do:
POLLINATING A SINGLE BRANCH
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Now that we have our pollen collected, we can pollinate females that are ready. You’ll need:
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- Paper bags
- Tags
- Brushes
- Pollen
- Stapler
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When you have a chosen female, remove her from the flowering space into a different room to administer the pollen (pic 16).
Choose a branch from the mid to lower section of your female that will receive light through the canopy (pic 17). Choosing a branch that is not tangled with others and has free range of motion will make this process easier.
Make sure the branch you choose and the buds you plan to pollinate will fit inside of your paper bag (pic 18 ).
Affix your tag to the chosen branch just below the last bud you can fit into your bag (pic 19). This will help you at harvest time to know how much of the branch to cut to separate from your sensi bud.
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With all fans and air circulators turned off, you can begin the pollination process.
When using a freshly clean brush, the pollen will have a tendency to fall from the tip. Gently tap your brush into one of the targeted buds to get some resin on your brush BEFORE you collect the first bit of pollen onto the brush. That little bit of stickiness from the resin will make sure the pollen doesn’t fall from the brush.
We only need the tip of the brush to have pollen, this keeps the pollen within our control and is plenty to achieve our goal. Try to load your brush against the wall of the container first (pic 20). When you load the brush from the pollen pile, try to get just enough, no need to dive into the middle of the pollen (pic 21).
With your brush, slowly and gently poke your female flowers with the first few brush movements (pic22) this ensures the pollen payload isn’t flicked into the air by brushing it. Once you’ve done a few pokings around the bud, you can gently brush the pollen to “color –in” the bud.
With the pollen fully dusted, the paper bag can be placed over the branch (pic 23). The corner of the bag is then folded over and stapled (pic 24). With the branch bagged, all you need to do is secure the bag, this will depend on your particular method of support (pic 25).
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With your female branches dusted and bagged (pic 26), you can return her to the flowering space (pic 27). The bag should remain on the branch for 5-7 days. After about a week, you can remove the bags and find a branch that is fully pollinated (pic 28 ).
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We will allow the females to finish their flower cycle and harvest as usual. During chop, I cut the seeded branches at the tag and hang them separately (pic 29). You can use different pollen on the same plant (different branches) to achieve multiple crosses using the same female.
Picture 29 shows 7 different crosses from one tent. When the branches have dried, you can shuck the seeds and allow them to dry/cure (pic 30). Each branch (depending on size and strain) can yield between 150-300 seeds, giving you a nice seed drop of your own creation.
CoB_nUt
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@Schwaggy P, here's my Green Crack. Can't remember which Humboldt it came from atm.It came in a wooden box with a seed tube in the side. Been running her for 11 years next month.
I thought I lost her, luckily It was in an unlabeled cup.I knew it was either GC or my bagseed pictured in my avatar.
Can't wait to run it alongside the Green Crack × Chocolate Trip I got from you.
I thought I lost her, luckily It was in an unlabeled cup.I knew it was either GC or my bagseed pictured in my avatar.
Can't wait to run it alongside the Green Crack × Chocolate Trip I got from you.
mr. childs
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damn 11 years... i don't think i even have any beans from back then. good job on keeping the flame going.
CoB_nUt
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Lol, thanks. Actually it's 9 years my bad. I got the bean in 2010,first harvest of her was in Feb- March of 2011
Now I'm gonna have to go look up the companies to see when it was released...lol. Shes been ran hard and long. She did get a break here and there. This was the first harvest of her in 10ish months.
reallybigjesusfreak
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Thank you for attaching that! So it looks like my biggest mistake was not getting the brush sticky first, because I definetly see little pollen expolsions when I touch the brush to the bud. I'm also about as gentle as a drunken godzilla fist fucking his ex wife. So I will try that and I bet I will have better success. I appreciate this thread and all your info you so freely share, i've referred to it more than once.
Schwaggy did you have success with the GA3. I have some in the freezer. Had all kinds of grand plans just still not ready to try it.
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Chebamunk13
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It is done got that Skunky D coming picked up the Green crack s1 would love to here a Schwaggy grow/smoke report on that GC
Schwaggy P
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She looks great. I've been running my GC for years, haven't found a plant with as much mass appeal.
Schwaggy P
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Ah, the possibilities...
Schwaggy P
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You're welcome. That was a tip I came by the hard way. I've also had a different, related issue with gunked up brushes. If you're trying to do a controlled full-plant pollination, the brush will get so sticky, there won't be as much pollen transfer as you'd like. I ditched the nice brushes requiring cleaning for cheap bulk makeup brushes (500/pack) that I treat as disposable.
Hope it works out for you, keep me posted!
Schwaggy P
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Thank you Gweedo. They look happy and healthy!
Schwaggy P
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It reversed her, but the pollen sacs were not as densely clustered as with the silver reversals. I would try either STS or colloidal silver first to get the hang of it, but GA3 should work for you.