Technically Day 33
Pollinated twice during the fourth week of flower, and then the male was removed. There’s still new white pistils poppin so it’s a pretty good bet they weren’t over-pollinated, and all the seeds will fully ripen.
I don’t understand the seed development and maturation process very well… It’s independent of light schedule!?!
I have so many questions…
Welp. My understanding of reality holds no bearing on it, so no use pondering it in absence of an expert.
What matters is we can increase DLI in seed-bearing plants beyond that of normal flowering for sinsemilla, even if we’re already pushing the limits of PPFD, by cutting our dark period.
Why would we want to do that? Aren’t the plants going to try to reveg and turn the flowers to trash? Yup! But more photosynthesis plus fewer hours of darkness, keeps more sugars in the plant, giving us larger seeds. This is important to me because the seed stock these plants came from was consistently incredibly small, even though they were nice and dark, and clearly mature seeds.
I’ve successfully harvested seeds from moms pollinated in veg, and shortened the dark period of plants in their last couple weeks of flower. But never tried adjusting the light schedule a week after pollination, in the middle of flower, tho, so we’re treading new waters. I’ll take pics weekly to see how they transform.