My neighbour Has a Male plant And now im panicking

Chreeboh

Chreeboh

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My Neighbor has a male plant about 5m round the corner from my feminised plants (i live in a flat growing on a balcony)
It has developed loads of flowers..

My Feminised plants are about 2 months into their veg stage. At this stage are they at risk of being pollinated?
Ive spoken to him he will remove the male, im just wondering if its too late.. As far as i can tell from google the females can only be pollinated after they start forming buds.. Hope thats true, anyone had any experience with this sort of thing?

For the record im absolutely obsessed with checking his plants every time i walk past, which is why i noticed the male sitting there looking at me like nothing ever happened...
 
mudballs

mudballs

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at this stage? no, you are in no risk of them being pollinated if you are 2 months into veg and not in flower. You're fine for a little while longer
 
JimmiP

JimmiP

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Chreeboh said:
Ok thanks for the reassurance mudballs.. Thats what i thought.. Good to know
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Well,,,, preflowers can get pollinated. But that should not be a big concern. If you notice anything starting to develop, pop them off.

It's pretty rude to grow male plants outside...
At least he's getting rid of it.
 
MAGpie81

MAGpie81

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Rurumo said:
I love seedy weed, just like mama used to grow.
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@Creature1969 @Rurumo same sentiments here.
Now that I grow and breed, I too get excited when I find a random seed. I was really “lucky with the ladies” this past year having found two excellent female seeds from bags of friends’ stuff, that grew to awesome (non-hermed) plants. Got seeds off of one of them, and the buds are the tastiest in my collection right now. Going to try full open pollination (in a greenhouse, far away from other neighbors who may be growing) with my next generation, because I really want to preserve and continue breeding with it.
I’ve been successful with select-site pollination to get just a few choice seeds, too.
 
Autodoctor

Autodoctor

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I just find it a little funny and trying to picture my self knocking on my neighbors door hey can you get rid of your male plant please. Kinda like asking some kids parents to get of their son cause he is going around impregnating all the girls in the neighborhood
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Autodoctor said:
I just find it a little funny and trying to picture my self knocking on my neighbors door hey can you get rid of your male plant please. Kinda like asking some kids parents to get of their son cause he is going around impregnating all the girls in the neighborhood
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not really, unless they're planning to breed, there is no point in having a male plant, unless you just think it's pretty. i'd be willing to bet they didn't even realize it as a male
 
lusidghost

lusidghost

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I'd go over in the middle of the night and munch off all of the green, and then blame it on local degenerate deer youth. You'll have to play it up as both the deer and as the consoling neighbor, but you can do this.
 
natureboygrower

natureboygrower

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JimmiP said:
It's pretty rude to grow male plants outside...
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I chuck outside. I dont have any close neighbors though. I suppose if you lived in a neighborhood with houses right next door to eachother it'd be a problem. I have a flowering garden probably 750 ft as the crow flies and i havent found any seeds and I had a monster Bodhi male Dragon Fruit dropping pollen for over a month. Not saying that pollinations cant or dont happen, I'm sure it would in a residential neighborhood, but it's been interesting to see how far my pollen has traveled (or not) on our land.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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natureboygrower said:
I chuck outside. I dont have any close neighbors though. I suppose if you lived in a neighborhood with houses right next door to eachother it'd be a problem. I have a flowering garden probably 750 ft as the crow flies and i havent found any seeds and I had a monster Bodhi male Dragon Fruit dropping pollen for over a month. Not saying that pollinations cant or dont happen, I'm sure it would in a residential neighborhood, but it's been interesting to see how far my pollen has traveled (or not) on our land.
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Pollen can travel over 10 miles.

www.canr.msu.edu

Weighing the risk of cannabis cross-pollination

Industrial hemp and marijuana growers must work together to ensure a bright future for all sectors of the budding cannabis industry.
www.canr.msu.edu www.canr.msu.edu
 
natureboygrower

natureboygrower

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PadawanWarrior said:
Pollen can travel over 10 miles.

www.canr.msu.edu

Weighing the risk of cannabis cross-pollination

Industrial hemp and marijuana growers must work together to ensure a bright future for all sectors of the budding cannabis industry.
www.canr.msu.edu www.canr.msu.edu
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Sure, that's what they say. I'm telling you from experience I haven't found a seeded garden 700ft down the driveway. I dont doubt a speck of pollen can travel 10 miles but it's not going to ruin someone's harvest.

Edited to say, yeah a commercial hemp field could fuck up some growers for sure.
 
JimmiP

JimmiP

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I had a plant seeded from the commercial hemp grows near me. And they are a few miles away. It really sucked having it happen. Especially when we have a five plant limit.
 
PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

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I do my pollen chucking outside, fairly close to my indoor grow, and I haven't has any issues with the pollen sneaking in.
 
JimmiP

JimmiP

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JimmiP said:
I had a plant seeded from the commercial hemp grows near me. And they are a few miles away. It really sucked having it happen. Especially when we have a five plant limit.
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This is one of the many reasons I built a hoop house. But even with that we had to add materials to filter incoming air.

In the end, I've still have to deal with a few seeds on the two plants growing closest to the door. The hemp growers either don't know what they are doing or don't seem to care. Both ways it sucks for people who don't grow for seed.
When we have done crosses it has always been from males that were grown inside and left small. Then the branches that were being pollinated were bagged and had the pollen applied with a brush. It does not take much pollen to make a large amount of seed.
 
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