When to collect pollen

So i have 3 females, 2 males, and an unknown.. I want to know when to collect the pollen from the sacks.. some sacks are open but i dont see any pollen.. it looks like a flower inside the ball sack... its been in there a week now and i dont want to fuck up my grow so ide like to do something tonight.. maybe kill one male and keep the other. or something... any advise is appreciated

greenearth5 said:

So i have 3 females, 2 males, and an unknown.. I want to know when to collect the pollen from the sacks.. some sacks are open but i dont see any pollen.. it looks like a flower inside the ball sack... its been in there a week now and i dont want to fuck up my grow so ide like to do something tonight.. maybe kill one male and keep the other. or something... any advise is appreciated

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If the sacks are open they released their pollen already.

so should i clip all the ball sacks into a bottle? or just some of them ?

DoeEyed said:

If the sacks are open they released their pollen already.

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greenearth5 said:

so should i clip all the ball sacks into a bottle? or just some of them ?

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Kinda depends on what you're trying to do - if your males are in the same area as your females, and the male flowers have opened, then your females (all of them) are already pollinated. If you still want pollen after that - there is a great thread here somewhere about the best way to collect pollen - I'll post a link to it if I can find it.

Here you go, this should help.
https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/20319-seed-production-tutorial.html

ive done alot of searching and it allways ends in confusion.... i have 3 females and would like to keep 2 of them virgins.. i thought i could snip off the nut sacks into a glass jar and keep it until my flowers got bigger.. i just want to polenate one piece of bud so i can have more lowrider seeds.... i keep the males on the other end of the grow... so that the fan will blow the pollen away from the females

fan - female plants .. male plants... wall

thats how my setup is from left to right... if all else fails ill jus chop them down

not all sacks are open but several are and allot of them are still closed and tiny

I just want to make seeds but if its a big hassel ill jus forge the idea

greenearth5 said:

fan - female plants .. male plants... wall

thats how my setup is from left to right... if all else fails ill jus chop them down

not all sacks are open but several are and allot of them are still closed and tiny

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That doesn't sound like a good idea. Im sure u have pollen flying all over that room now, get them out if its not to late. Take any pollen you want and jar it until you want to pollinate your female.

im trying to figure out how to get the pollen... i dont see any when i bump the plant.. i jus see ball sacks... do i collect the ball sacks... open them with my fingers??

i should have totally figured this out by now.. its my own damn lazy fault

greenearth5 said:

im trying to figure out how to get the pollen... i dont see any when i bump the plant.. i jus see ball sacks... do i collect the ball sacks... open them with my fingers??

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Originally posted by Fdd2Blk:

i try to get them just before they open. this way i get the most pollen i can out of the pod. i will pluck them as they ripen and drop them into a glass jar. the pods will be taken inside and left out in the open to allow the pollen to fully dry. i lace then on a paper plate on a dark shelf to dry. then they can be crumbled and the pollen can be sifted out. i usually just dump it all back in the jar and lightly stir it to get it to crumble and release the pollen.

it doesnt work like that. you cant just pollenate one bud. if the pollen sacks are open then theres gonna be pollen airborne in your grow room. so all your virgins arent pure any more. the have been pollenated.

yos420 said:

it doesnt work like that. you cant just pollenate one bud. if the pollen sacks are open then theres gonna be pollen airborne in your grow room. so all your virgins arent pure any more. the have been pollenated.

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Yea probably if any of the seed pods are open, even if they aren't pollen can still leak out in small amounts.

To pollinate a single bud collect the seed pods in a jar when they are swollen, dry them out then break each one open. I use a Q-tip to sprinkle the pollen on the buds I want pollinated.

i cut two male plants down brought it out of the grow area and sniped the nut sacks off... ill do some more research from here... thanks guys