This week I chopped down a pollenated female. I wasn’t sure how much extra flowering time if any would be needed for seed production until the seeds began to rattle loose from the plant on their own. Turns out an extra week was plenty in this case.
I decided to try making some seeds after growing thirteen male plants in a row. The first six plants I took the time to train and grow surprised me with balls once they began flowering. Successive failures prompted my decision to start plants under 12/12 to aid plant identification. Sixteen seeds later I was out of weed, out of seeds, and had only three females. After what felt like a practical joke mixed with a statistical anomoly I decided to sacrifice one of the ladies for experimentation.
Pollenation was performed the old fashioned way- I gathered half a dozen males, gripped the selected female by the base of the stem, and whacked all the males with the female until the cloud of pollen settled. I have since learned a great deal about pollenation here on OG (I never know what search terms to use until after I’ve solved a problem), and the good news is that my technique has lots of opportunity for refinement. Hopefully next time I will be able to preserve some pollen as well.
The real measure of success for this project will be having something worth growing, and worth sharing.
Finally for an idea of the timeline I originally planted on 2021/04/20, pollenated on 2021/05/28, and harvested on 2021/07/20.
