In my experience strains that change colour have done so for me at some point after the stretch of the flowering cycle
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Nice work… those plants are looking juicy!
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They supposed to turn pink as they mature.
The plants look very good well done.
At this point and if this was me.I would get the males into the veg room while the females start flowering. In about 2 to 3 weeks introduced them in to the flowering room together with the female plants.
Obviously you can do both simultaneously and I’m sure you will get some pretty decent amount of seeds and still collecting pollen for future projects.
Anyhow I’m sure you will do fine mate.
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Everything still on track. They haven’t been out of the tent at all since last update. It’s a freaking tropical forest in there. My only current concern is if it could be too wet in there for proper pollination. Is that a realistic concern with 90 plus humidity. Most of the tent looks okay. The bottom third the walls are literally wet. I’m trying to isolate the pollen. So there is no active air exchange. Just what seaps in through my bad craftsmanship. There is a clip on for air movement within the tent.
The pollen I took from #4 and put on a lower critical bilbo bud was a success
Edit: zoom in on the last pinkleberry shot. Sure looks like some color coming into those pistils from the bottom working up. I can’t see in that back corner of the tent. Just stuck my arm in.
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Even if they take there is going to be a serious mold problem. Is there no way to vent?
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They will be fine. They are being moved to 4x4 with ventilation in a week or two, after pollination.
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Congratulations! In that last picture, you can see it has been pollinated, brown pistils and fat calix are a good sign of it
You will notice a lot of brown pistils really soon, that is a good sign, in 4 weeks you should be able to see some fully mature seeds.
In your case, instead of pink pistils you might find the buds turn in to purpleish pinkish, for what I’ve seen most of the pinkleberries do that indoors
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Pulled them out today so I could collect more pollen. Good thing the two big males were pretty dry. Watered everybody. Looks like we’re done stretch and starting to bud up. Lots of pollen flying around from 4 and 6. The little guy seems to have missed the boat. By the time he’s ready I’ll be killing them. I will check them again in a week. Probably be mission accomplished by then. Maybe 2 weeks tops.
I was looking at the buds under 30x. Definite pistil color change going on. Turning brown in quite a few spots. I’m taking this as early indication of pollination under way.
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Great work, plants are looking very happy! 
Regarding colour, I just got aware of this:
Red basil outside vs. the same red basil inside as companion plant. The quality is not great, but outside is dark red/ purple, inside is green with some red/purple in the center.
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Thank you!
Wow that is a striking difference. Ive recently been considering that even if I did this outside, wouldn’t the pollination cause a lot of brown instead of pink anyway? I haven’t grown a heavily seeded plant out, but pictures I have seen don’t showcase the prettiest plants / buds.
What I am wishing though is that I had thrown one of these into the flower tent unseeded so we could see what the buds were about. That would have made for a more interesting 2 month road ahead here. Live and learn.
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I’m not a pollination expert, just what I have researched. So correct me if I am wrong.
The way I understand it is once the pollen hits the pistil, the pistil starts to turn brown and shrivel up. This means that the bud that was attached to those Pistils is now fertilized and will start producing a seed. The more Pistils pollinated, the more brown you will notice. Not like immediately but within a day or two. If you have non-pollinated plants at the same age, it will be an obvious change.
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Sounds about right to my understanding. I’m expecting to see a lot of that when I pull them out in a week. If not they will go back in for another.
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I think we’re officially out of room 
guess I’ll be pulling them out tomorrow morning for some super cropping.
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We are definitely on the right track. Seeing sure pollination. Question answered about the humidity. I reached my arm in and did a few crops where they were literally touching the light or taller than it on the back side. Gave #4 a shake. Holy shite. The pollen cloud was ridiculous.
Is there a benefit to leaving them all together longer?
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Nice. That pollen sure get’s everywhere. My light, walls and floors are caked with it.
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Yeahhhh, my other tent is in the same closet. Im kinda shocked that I haven’t completely seeded the flower tent.
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Aye @Eagles009 - just caught up on this - everything looks fabulous- nice work!
And thanks for posting those pics… so good!
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Ty friend!
Ok guys, day 20 of 1212. Some stretched every bit of 3 weeks (to give you a better idea of overall maturity level). We definitely have pollination on some buds. I would like the next time I pull them out to be the killing males and rinsing females for the other tent event. When would anyone recommend that be? If that could be today I wouldn’t mind. Will also wait if need be though, don’t want to have wasted my time here.
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The pistils on the female buds should brown and receed when you see this occur on most the buds u should be good to go. Slap a male around a bit and it should release a good poof of that pollen.
I’ll try to fine a photo of my afghan afterwards
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Couldn’t find the photo. 
it’s quite noticible though they go brown slightly rhe receded. Should happen within a day or 2 of pollination.
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