As the title suggests: Need an experienced person (or persons) to advise, please!
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Apply pollen. Either selectively or en masse.
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LOL, Thatâs the short version⌠
The âjust make more seedsâ answer:
Members of a good strain should all start flowering about the same time. The easiest way is select a couple good looking ladies and a good looking male (or 2).
You want to segregate them from your other plants so they do not get pollinated. (tents are great for this).
Some keep the males separate and hand pollinate the females but thatâs more situational.
For regs, about week 3 of flower is the best time to hit them with pollen and letting them go for 6 weeks after pollination to finish. So a segregated group of autos, just let them do their thing and wait 6 weeks.
Some strains (uncommon) will actually start dropping seeds when done so if you see them dropping beans, they are done.
The stigmas are the âgive-awayâ when the pollen takes. They kink-up and look like they have âthe frizziesâ.
Pollen control: a cheap squirt bottle that can be turned down to produce a fine mist is your best piece of gear. Misted water is pure Kryptonite to pollen. Spray around the âparty tentâ after working will knock down stray pollen and help keep your other plants seed free.
Thereâs lots more but that should get you pointed in the right direction. 
Cheers
G
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Thanks, but Iâve been watching a lot of videos and it seems to me that you simply start spraying Colloidal Silver when the pistils start appearing and follow through until you see the seed pods starting to form.
I canât find my favourite video atm, but this one shows that he gpt over 300 from one plant.
(Apparently, you do have to keep cross-breeding them, up to 10 times to get 100% Autoflower, as it Is a recessive gene- but still plenty of hope!
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But does the title say, the best way to sow autoflowering seeds? or does the translator tell me something else?
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Regarding the use of colloidal silver on autoflowering plants, I learned everything on my own, without videos or anything. I spray it after the tenth day, for a week, maximum two weeks, and I get a lot of fertile pollen. I could also say that if you want a plant with fewer pollen sacs, for example if you want to do an S1, spray much less so that you have a half-female and half-male plant.
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Studies show an entire plant spray of a 3mM concentration of STS (about .12 grams of silver nitrate per 8oz water),
Sprayed 1-2 weeks before flowering to be most effective. Applied once or twice over those weeks.
In the end, so long as your spraying a strong solution onto bud sites, they are permanently changed and will make pollen. One study found little gains from spraying more than twice, the bigger gain was from spraying a week before they flower
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