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I’d dust them.
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I suppose it matters how many seeds you’re hoping to get. If you want thousands to share you may want to wait a bit longer. If you want a couple hundred to share more discriminately or to breed and work with I’d dust now.
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I’d wait a bit.
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Cheers, I’ll give her a dusting soon.
Got a Male A B.C growing down in the garden
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I’d pollinate now and again in 5 days if you have enough pollen
But one time will do just fine
And you’ll see if it took very quickly
Paps
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I’d wait another 7-10 days. What strain are you knocking up there? @Cr0Barron
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This is the lady
Erdpurt x Friesland (M33) – Kwik Seeds Erdpurt x Friesland (M33) – Kwik Seeds
She’s been stinkin since veg, I call her ‘Stinkle’
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Pollen is so effective that even cut 10 parts baked dry flour to pollen is still effective at making seeds.
I’d add flour to your polen (guides on Google) and then pollenate twice or more.
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Just curious - why do you think it’s important to cut the pollen with something?
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It’s not. But it helps keep pollen dry, wet pollen is dead pollen. And literally one pollen grain will pollenate. So you get more seeds by using more pollen flour dust vs pure pollen if all you have is a little bit of pollen.
If you’ve got tons of pollen it’s not helpful, but if you only have 1 vial it can be
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I’m gonna keep it crude on this one:
Step 1: wait for a non-soggy day (tall order currently in the UK)
Step 2: Snip a branch off the ABC that has open calyxs throwing pollen
Step 3: Brush the branch on the flowers.
If that doesn’t work I’ll try something more sophisticated.
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That should work. If you are selectively pollinating I’ve found a tarp over what you don’t want to hit to be helpful.
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I’ve heard that using pollen bags over the branches you just hit can help with that as well
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Yes people do it that way but I like the tarp better. Don’t like bags over my buds for too long.
But it does work. It’ll be harder for OP using branches. I think the bags are for straight pollen mostly.
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See these 2 jars?
Each contain more than enough pollen for 100 or so seeds each.
If I cut this pollen with flour I would not know where the pollen is.
You can pick up the pollen, which is only coating the side wall of the jars, with a qtip or paint brush and you will only pollinate what you touch. Of course there are additional measures you can take to minimize risk of cross pollinating or hitting buds you don’t want seed.
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That’s the point though of cutting it. You have a tiny amount of pollen. You mix it thoroughly in flour. You then dust the flour onto the plant knowing that each dusting of flower contains more than enough tiny tiny pollen cells
Ya know do what makes you happy
But plenty of people on here cut their pollen to great effect
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Where as I’ve heard many bag the bud sites for pollination, as touched on above. I’ve often done the opposite.
Remove the plants you’re hitting with selected pollen from general pop to a location air cannot hijack the invisible floaters.
Carry a misting water bottle, it’s your friend during pollinations.
Then applying minimally to your select bud sites will guarantee clean tops (which are nice to have to speed along assesments about mother’s)
For pollen harvest - lately I’ve been taking the males down to one or 2 leaders - removing all lowers, and then waiting until only a few sepals are open before tapping directly into a jar from the plant - watching it fall into the jar or tapping it on the side and seeing it cling to the glass. The closer you have your eye on pollen the more control you have. I’ll then remove the male plant from the male room as I usually have dozens. It’s also up to the males for pollination order - the first releases being the first I use.
All I’m saying is flour for me at least would make a mess of my system.
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I don’t see how flour dust with a paint brush would mess up your system. All good though, you do you man, seems like you’ve got a great thing going on