Jelly's Cab Adventures

So 25F

My little clone is a male! I’m gonna knock up a branch on each plant so I have some seeds to play with. I can’t remember for sure but I’m pretty sure this is a SSH male so I’ll have SSH seeds and SSH x Random Bagseed.

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We’re you given the clone or did you take from another grow you have? I’m completely confused by the exclamation mark. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Hahahaha, this little guy came from one of the original 6 plants I started with, I took a cutting from each plant before flower and this guy took forever to root but he survived. I wasn’t intentionally planning on keeping any males at first but I want to make a couple seeds ya know?

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That got me good. I couldn’t imagine the actual scenario. Lol. The canopy is looking great. I had to keep scrolling up and back down a few posts to compare the last pics.

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26F
Temp: 84F at lights 82F overall cab.
RH: 21%
Feed: Maxicrop @ 950 ppm 1.9ish EC.

Overall View:

Overhead Canopy Shot:

Bud Closeup:

Male:

Some questions as I’ve never “chucked” pollen before. How much longer until I need to worry about getting that male out of the cab? Can I pluck pollen sacks and open them manually to get the pollen? From there it should be just a simple matter of painting pollen on a bud to start the process of making seeds correct? Can I store pollen in a freezer after i’ve collected it?

Thanks guys!

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I would not have that in my room. I am assuming it is dropping pollen now. That would scare the sh!t out of me if i saw that and i was trying for sinsemilla. Ha! Ha!

Edit: I am in no way a seed maker. I don’t breed plants ever so my knowledge is lacking severely in that department.

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None of the sacks are open yet, I have been monitoring closely. Based on the appearance of the male,

Can I open the pollen sacks and get viable pollen? If so, I’ll pull it today and gather pollen. I’m going for mostly sensimilla but I want to have some more seeds to work with :slight_smile:

Edit: Tagging @99PerCent and @ReikoX because I know they have experience making seeds. lol

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I will let more knowledgeable people give you advice so i don’t confuse you with my ignorance. :grin:

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Hi @Jellypowered :wave:
Did you get this male from bagseeds? That would be odd.
Also, it looks like he is about to bukakke your whole crop any second now to me. I would move it to another room asap (unless you want seeds in every bud).

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The male is from a culled SSH male plant, I took a cutting of each plant before I flipped mostly just for practice, this little guy is the only one who survived.

I hear what you’re saying and at this point I should probably manually try extracting pollen then. He’s ready to be a daddy lol. (gonna knock up one lower bud on each plant, for seed stock)

As in my quoted post you replied to, i’ll have two varieties to play with. SSH, and SSH Male x Female Bagseed

Good to know it’s time to get his ass evicted.

Edit: This is going to be the reason I build a Space Bucket. I’ll have an isolated chamber for a male plant for pollen gathering. :slight_smile: Won’t take up much space, and I can practice breeding!

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I couldn’t sleep at night with that little bastard sitting beside that FINE looking crop!
LOL
Good-Luck, man :four_leaf_clover:

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Does this cutting have roots? If so, the flowers will continue to form. If not, they will continue to form if there is sufficient light, even without roots!

Once you are ready to harvest the pollen, there are different techniques.

I was reading a thread where someone cuts the flowers just before they spill, very carefully and thoroughly dries them, vacuum packs with desiccant, and stores in a cool dark place, for years.

A quick run on how I learned @Muleskinner’s trick for storing pollen is is here.

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Pretty sure it wasn’t ready… that’s ok I think I’ve got enough seeds to play with for now. Male is now in the compost pile lol.

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If you haven’t already trashed these bits, try drying them thoroughly, and see if you can get it to fly

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I already trashed em, I just realized, thanks to some awesome people here on OG :wink: I have more seeds than I’ll ever need for a while and It isn’t worth messing with right now.

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Depending on the project, if small, I take a clone off the male right before the sacs open, like the picture above. I take the clone long and place it in a cup of water by the window. Place a mirror or piece of glass under the branch and as long as there is no air movement it will fall and collect on the glass. Once you have enough remove all organic matter from the pollen if you are going to store it. If you have few pistols you want to pollenate, you can use a paintbrush and dip it in the pollen than lightly touch the pistols. If you want to pollenate only 1 branch, cover it with a bag than spray the whole plant untill it is super wet. Remove the bag and brush the dry pistols. place the bag back on with the pollen inside and respray the plant with water. The next day spray the plant, remove the bag, if pollenation was successfull spray the recently pollentated branch to kill all rouge pollen. Spray the whole room and plant with a misting bottle.

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What I do is put them in my bathroom under the sink with a small CFL bulb. I put parchment paper down to collect the pollen. Once they open, pollen will fall easily. I collect it, then bring the doner plant in there and paint the pollen on the pistils. After a couple hours I spray everything down, take a shower, and change clothes before bringing the female back in the grow room.

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Spray everything down? Even the plant you just pollinated?

Before bringing it back in, yes. Sometimes I keep them together over night.

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