Seed Production. A Tutorial

Rtoke said:

question for ya !

Say u have a white widow female can u get the pollen from a lets say purple widow male and put the pollen on the left half of the white widow female and on the other half of the white widow put different pollen from lets say afgan ryder. so the seeds on the left side of the plant be ww x pw ? and on the right side ww x ar ??????? cheers

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greenjambo said:

This is i newbie Q, but i cant seem to get the same answer twice! When a true fe-male plant throws out say 2 or 3 seeds in one Nug, with no pollination or hermaphroditism,just the one or two in whole crop, are these seeds fe-male and of any worth?

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greenjambo said:

So how do you reckon it got pollonated? as apart from the rest of that plant's bud having no seed, nothing in the garden was pollonated. Why i ask is while in GHS C/S i got couple g's of their Alaskan Ice and got a seed in the 2 g's! How would that have happened and will it too carry hermie traits in it?

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Fuhrer said:

I wana make shure im doing things right

so a while ago i went to check on my plants
one is a male
four are females

I looked at the male and i saw that two of his sacs open one looking like is going to open
so I clip them off to but into a small container

so do i wait?
how does pollen look like (with small amount will I be able to see them)(I only collected 3 sacs, 2 already opened outside)?
do I just get a brush swirl it in the container and brush the female buds?
Im a bit nervous

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fdd2blk said:

pollen is a white/yellowish powder that falls out of the "bananas" once they open. if you pick them too early it won't be powdery. if it's not powdery it is often not viable yet. once they do open they drop most of the pollen at once. you have to try to catch them just before they open. once you collect them you can tap the container a little and you should see some powder. dab the brush on the powder then touch it to the hairs on the female. i usually collect at least 20 or 30 sacs before i get a usable amount of pollen.

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TCurtiss said:

So you let them grow / go into flowering the entire length / time just like a female?

And I have a male & a couple females my yard the fence is 8 foot tall, do you think putting the male on the opposite side of the yard will be suffice? It would be 30 or so feet

I would like to keep him & try some crossing & just getting my foot into the water so to speak

Thanks

T

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fdd2blk said:

pretty much, yeah.

you can trim them back to just a branch or 2 so you don't have pollen everywhere. you only need a little.

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Fuhrer said:

is red hairs a sign of pollination?
b/c it attempted to pollinate a female and then she soon got red hairs
I wanted to see if red hair might be a sign
so I attempted to pollinate another female and she got red hairs shortly after
the other females (non pollinated) still have white hairs

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flwrpwr said:

Just read all 80 pages, very informative, thanks for sharing fdd.

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