Mrs. Weedstein
Well-Known Member
So this is an out-of-the ordinary photoperiod question:
I’ve got a male that I want to keep for pollen but I don’t want him fully pollinating all the bud sites of a female side project that I’ve got in a tent. I’d rather pollinate one or two colas selectively with collected pollen.
So while I’m flowering her, I was planning to keep him under an LED outside the tent and just cover him in a reinforced box to ensure total darkness.
However, this would involve getting him covered and uncovered by that box at the same times every day — probably for a couple months or more.
What if I oversleep one or more days and forget to uncover him? I’d imagine that’s much more likely than forgetting to cover him at night — though I suppose that may happen as well, especially if I’m out of town and need to have my wife remember.
In any case: Would exposing him to excessive periods of darkness a few times create any issues with the male flowers? Do male flowers ever hermie by sending out female pistils?
And even if he does hermie in this fashion for whatever reason, would that create the same kind of problems in his progeny? In other words, I don’t particularly care if he would self-pollinate some hermie female flowers. But would I have to worry about his pollen then containing some undesirable traits?
I’ve got a male that I want to keep for pollen but I don’t want him fully pollinating all the bud sites of a female side project that I’ve got in a tent. I’d rather pollinate one or two colas selectively with collected pollen.
So while I’m flowering her, I was planning to keep him under an LED outside the tent and just cover him in a reinforced box to ensure total darkness.
However, this would involve getting him covered and uncovered by that box at the same times every day — probably for a couple months or more.
What if I oversleep one or more days and forget to uncover him? I’d imagine that’s much more likely than forgetting to cover him at night — though I suppose that may happen as well, especially if I’m out of town and need to have my wife remember.
In any case: Would exposing him to excessive periods of darkness a few times create any issues with the male flowers? Do male flowers ever hermie by sending out female pistils?
And even if he does hermie in this fashion for whatever reason, would that create the same kind of problems in his progeny? In other words, I don’t particularly care if he would self-pollinate some hermie female flowers. But would I have to worry about his pollen then containing some undesirable traits?
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