I came across a picture with the same strange leaves.
Thought I would share. It’s a gdp
I guess I’ve been doing some overkill with branch pollination. Dust ,paper bag, leave 5 days, remove bag and spray lol
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It’s one of those things that once you see it, you start seeing it everywhere. 
GDP is Mendo perps, Afghani & Skunk. I don’t see a common ancestor…
Try shortening from 5 days to one. You should get the same results.
Cheers
G
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Thanks for your hard work and thoughtful presentation on this @Gpaw. I’m bookmarking this and “Cool Runnings” as my goto references for proper prolific propagation™ techniques!
Despite my earlier angsty virtue signaling about not jonesing for seeds I can’t run in the near future, I’m putting my name on the Level 2 list because this is just too cool to miss!
It’s easy to be sleazy when awesome seeds are on the line… 
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No worries brother, you are already on my ‘short list’. 
Cheers
G
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The plan is to openly pollinate all three ladies with pollen from the two males.
I’ve collected and stored the pollen separately and will selectively pollinate half of each female.
Manifolding
Manifolding allows simple division of the plant for selective pollination. This structure allows easy separation in halves and quarters.
In this instance, one half will be pollinated by one male and the other half the second male.
The pollen is cut 5:1 ( flour to pollen) and applied with a cotton swab.
Once the exposed buds have been ‘properly molested’ a wait period of 2 hours allows the fertilization process to progress to the point where misting etc. will not interfere with that activity.
After the wait period, misting and waiting another 30 min. (let the moisture evaporate)
I’ll swap the protective bag to the other half of the plant for the next round.
Rinse and repeat.
The fourth plant is the Critical Plus (I’m making a few beans to test out that cross).
I tag each pollinated branch with the color assigned to that male, in this case blue for MB7
Cheers
G
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wow @Gpaw reading through this, really demystified the pollination process for me. I am a very visual learner, and I find that reading all kinds of books about the process, it was still a little muddy, but seeing through your explanations and pictures, gives me hope that eventually I will be able to figure out how to do this and run with it. Keep it up! Much love.
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Hey @sprinklememaynee, I’m glad you are enjoying it and thanks for the kind words!
I’m much the same way with visual learning. I ‘research’ subjects and then think about the processes (while high really helps…).
Once I can visualize it, I’ve got something I can work on and improve.
I discovered years ago, Nothing improves a process like doing it a couple times… 
Cheers
G
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What’s the large leafed plant growing with your pot?
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I don’t know… but I’ll bet someone else will …
I always get seeds germinating in the fresh EWC I top-dress with. Normally I let these ‘volunteers’ just do their thing.
My earthworm castings are from the worm bin in the kitchen so the options are: Red Peppers, cucumber, tomato or maybe something else.
I pretty sure it isn’t a tomato… 
It has small flowers with 5 tiny white petals around a yellow center.
Cheers
G
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Kind of looks like nettles ?
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I have a question since we’re on the topic of pollination. I reversed a branch on a plant I’d like to make seeds with. Is there any way to contain the pollen from that branch to keep it from spewing pollen everywhere? The sacs haven’t opened yet and it’s in a space with other plants that I would not like seeded. Just trying to make a few more seeds not 3 plants worth lol. I do have other locations to move the plant to if need be.
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Leaves look like Shaggy Soldier weed to me…It definitely looks like a familiar weed, just not sure which one…
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I’d be interested in a few of the critical plus crosses!
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You should be able to put a bag over that limb, so that you can isolate it and monitor it. It won’t need more than a couple of hours once you’re sure the the pollen has dropped. You’ll likely let some loose when you remove the bag, or maybe you could ease it open and spray water on the limb and keep spraying as you slide the bag off.
Yeah, I would move the plant to a neutral spot so as to not pollinate the other two plants until you have sprayed the plant down good. peace
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Thanks a lot @GMan! I’ll try that. Gotta move some stuff around but we’ll see how it goes!
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Check out Hops pollination bags…
Somebody brought these up a couple years back but I never had a need to try them out.
Cheers
G
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I like this method. I’m going to be collecting all that GDP pollen when they are ready. I think I’ll try this as well.
Thanks for the addition to my list of things I know. 
@GMan . When you have the bag already on the branch why not soak the heck out of her before removing the bags? You could then just put direct warmish air blowing on her until your absolutely positive the buds are completely dry (even if it takes hours) so you don’t risk mold or anything.
I’m going to be doing the procedure not too far down the road and that was my “chiseled in wood” plan.
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Hello
Is the plastic that you see used to pollinate without pollinating the rest of the plants? It also covers them from above?
Thank you
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Hi @Quijote, yes, they are just large recycle bags and are covering one half of the plant.
After pollination and waiting a couple hours, I mist down the exposed section and then reposition the bag to expose the protected section and then pollinate with the other male’s pollen.
Cheers
G
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I read about lining with plastic but I couldn’t imagine how to do it.
See the photo and the explanation, it has been perfect for me.
Thank you
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