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