2024 outdoor show an tell anything an everything outdoor is welcome.

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mandocat

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NewEnglandFarmer said:
Just 9 acres. Males are small, in 1g pots, off in the woods. As soon as I collect pollen they get composted. You think that's taking too much of a chance? Done it the past 2 years and have not seen even a single seed in dozens of plants (other than branches I dusted manually last year), but maybe I should rethink this approach.
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If it keeps working go with it! I'm not very fastidious about my pollen chucking, I figure that they are all quality genetics. I collect my pollen indoors in the spring, but I could easily get some cross contamination when I am collecting pollen from 2 different males that are in 2 different tents in the same room. If I tried to run males outdoors the Oklahoma wind would get more pollen than me.
 
Balitzki

Balitzki

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There mostly completely organic I didn’t wanna smash them w bottled nutes anymore trying a different approach hoping to get a completely natural non influenced taste
 
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Funkentelechy

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mandocat said:
If it keeps working go with it! I'm not very fastidious about my pollen chucking, I figure that they are all quality genetics. I collect my pollen indoors in the spring, but I could easily get some cross contamination when I am collecting pollen from 2 different males that are in 2 different tents in the same room. If I tried to run males outdoors the Oklahoma wind would get more pollen than me.
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I grow my males outdoors and wait until the first male flowers start to drop downwards like they do before opening, then I cut the top off bring it inside so it's isolated from the outside plants. Then I put it in a vase in a window and collect the pollen as the flowers open.
Moisture makes pollen nonviable, so after I dust a branch with pollen I cover the pollinated branch(with a bag or something), then mist the rest of the plant(s) that I don't want to be pollinated, with water. That way you don't get cross contamination of pollen, or seeds other places on the plant where you don't want them.
 
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burnpile

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Some of these are getting close, prob another 3 weeks give or take, some just barely started. Just sprayed with bt last night.
 

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