Can flowering males pollinate vegging females?

All my kids I started from seed turned out to be male. I have them in a tent right next to my vegging clones which are all female. Can the flowering males pollinate my vegging females or can I keep the males for a bit longer to collect pollen without worrying about crossing with my vegging clones?

if there is air flow between the two areas then yes it can easily cause pollination, even pollen on your hands or clothes can do it and the shit gets everywhere. best to move them as far away into another room as possible. put them outside even.

Thanks man, I'm just going to destroy them...there is no air flow but my tents are right next to one another. This morning I can definitely say for sure that they are all male and I'd collect pollen but it's not that important, I already got some heady strains from clones like Deep Funk and Strawberry Bubba Funk (Strawberry Cough x Bubba Kush x Deep Funk).

Would it be worth my time to clean my flowering room real well before I put any girls in there?

Always smart to clean the room between crops.

RainPerimeter said:

Would it be worth my time to clean my flowering room real well before I put any girls in there?

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yes, like lord d says give it serious clean, pollen is almost microscopic and its like fuckin glue. id wash the walls down with alcohol or thinners just to make sure. id also spray the plants with Dutch Masters Reverse just to make sure.

I'm sort of hoping at the same time that they never got big enough to release much pollen. I hit the lights on these last week on Monday so they were almost on a clear week of flowering.

dura72 said:

yes, like lord d says give it serious clean, pollen is almost microscopic and its like fuckin glue. id wash the walls down with alcohol or thinners just to make sure. id also spray the plants with Dutch Masters Reverse just to make sure.

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Wow, I never knew it was so resilient. If the odd pollen spore was left in room and happened to find its way to pollinate a female flower would this cause the whole plant to become fertilised? I ask because I think I remember seeing peeps pollinate a single branch whilst keeping the rest sensi.

Monkeyfloss said:

Wow, I never knew it was so resilient. If the odd pollen spore was left in room and happened to find its way to pollinate a female flower would this cause the whole plant to become fertilised? I ask because I think I remember seeing peeps pollinate a single branch whilst keeping the rest sensi.

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that single bit wont pollinate it all at first but allit need to do is polinate 1 flower and from it then more balls then pollen are produced and thru the air it does the whole plant. i think what your talking about involves putting a clear plastic bag over flower whilst the bag has pre collected male pollen, this pollinate the plant bug the bag prevents the spread.

dura72 said:

that single bit wont pollinate it all at first but allit need to do is polinate 1 flower and from it then more balls then pollen are produced and thru the air it does the whole plant. i think what your talking about involves putting a clear plastic bag over flower whilst the bag has pre collected male pollen, this pollinate the plant bug the bag prevents the spread.

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ah yes, I do remember a plalstic bag being involved somehow, that explains it. Cheers.

Lord Dangly Bits said:

Always smart to clean the room between crops.

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^^^^^^That^^^^^^

But, misting with plain water will cause pollen to germinate and die. Doesn't take much to kill pollen.

BTW, I did an experiment pollinating pre flowers on clones for just a few seeds. Worked quite well and the seeds even developed well under a 18/6 light schedule.

Wet

Clean the tent the males were in thoroughly. Pollen can stick well. If a grain of pollen hits a female you only get one seed, so it's not terrible, but you want to get as much out as possible.

Wetdog said:

^^^^^^That^^^^^^

BTW, I did an experiment pollinating pre flowers on clones for just a few seeds. Worked quite well and the seeds even developed well under a 18/6 light schedule.

Wet

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Wet - that sounds interesting, I think I'ld like to try that myself. How old was the clone before you pollinated? Did you specifically select a branch off the mother with preflowers already showing? Could the clone produce viable seeds under T5 lighting?

peace

heres something though, some people say you get higher potency buds if only one branch is pollinated on a plant. because plant wants to protect there seeds from fatal sun rays so it adds thc, its natural sunblock.

Monkeyfloss said:

Wet - that sounds interesting, I think I'ld like to try that myself. How old was the clone before you pollinated? Did you specifically select a branch off the mother with preflowers already showing? Could the clone produce viable seeds under T5 lighting?

peace

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Since the clones are the same age as the mothers, they were about 2 1/2 years old at that time. All had pre flowers for almost that long.

Nothing special, I had some clones going and a plant my kid grew out turned out to be a male, so I just wanted to see what happened.

The male was outside, the clones were in party cups. Had 9, so I xplanted 3 into gallon pots and left outside. The other 6 were outside for a few days and then brought back in under my T-12 clone set up. All developed viable seeds, I've popped some.

A T-5 would work fine, if the T-12 worked and it was on a 18/6 schedule also, not a flowering schedule.

I was very pleased, since I'm doing a cubing thing with my mother plant.

Wet