Keeping Males

[Odin88]

How should I keep a male separate from females until the females are harvested? I want to save the pollen but I cant keep it under the same light as the females because I dont want seeds. I dont have room for another light just for males. Can it be kept in the dark for a few weeks until the female are finished?

 

[GeneBanker]

When I begin to let the sacs hang from my
Males, I bring them to my girlfriends house with a backup light and timer and sit it in her spare bedroom closet. I don’t even like them in my house or outside of it

 

[SFnone]

a male is still a plant, you cannot keep it in the dark for a few weeks.

 

[Odin88]

a male is still a plant, you cannot keep it in the dark for a few weeks.

Well can it be kept in the window in daylight and under regular house light until I can put it back under the LED? Will it die?

 

[SFnone]

Well can it be kept in the window in daylight and under regular house light until I can put it back under the LED? Will it die?

it depends on how much light you have... a sunroom might be fine, but if you are way up north, it might not be enough... a week should probably be fine in that kind of situation, but I don't know about 3... I have never really grown anything by window light alone, so I can't honestly tell you whether it will or won't... I just know darkness will hurt it.

 

[Odin88]

it depends on how much light you have... a sunroom might be fine, but if you are way up north, it might not be enough... a week should probably be fine in that kind of situation, but I don't know about 3... I have never really grown anything by window light alone, so I can't honestly tell you whether it will or won't... I just know darkness will hurt it.

I was thinking that once it's back under the LED that it could be brought back to it's original state and finish growing normally, no?

 

[Jimbo the Gael]

Just to be clear, the male is in full flower?
A second tent with negative pressure and a hepa filter on the outtake might work, so long as you're willing to shower and change clothes between tending plants.

And you have positive pressure on the female tent (if you have one) with the intake nowhere near the out vent for the male tent..

And don't mind a few seeds in your bud.

 

[Odin88]

Its not in full flower but I moved it to another room. I'm in a small apartment. This is my first grow with regular seeds.

 

[Jimbo the Gael]

If you can keep him in veg, or maybe clip off all the flowers and get him to reveg that should work. Especially if he's early enough in flower that he hasn't dropped any pollen. You could also clip him down to the 3rd or 4th node (I'm assuming he's bigger than that), treat it as a topping, though I've never done that to a plant in flower so I don't know what that shock would do if it interacted with the flowering hormones.

 

[Odin88]

If you can keep him in veg, or maybe clip off all the flowers and get him to reveg that should work. Especially if he's early enough in flower that he hasn't dropped any pollen. You could also clip him down to the 3rd or 4th node (I'm assuming he's bigger than that), treat it as a topping, though I've never done that to a plant in flower so I don't know what that shock would do if it interacted with the flowering hormones.

Hmm. Good idea. I'll try keeping him neutered until I can put it back under the light. Thank You!