3x SSDD males in a 3x3
Nice shot. Most of fans of this strain break their teeth in focusing on females only (selfing, BX etc), near everything is carried by the males, pretty dominants on their respective balance. If you’re talking about the Silver Haze X SD of course. I’m a daily smoker of the JH (one of the numerous sisters of the SH), and i always appreciate a nugget of SD (never worked with) or ECSD (worked intensive with ~ten years ago).
For now, i think that you’re stressing by a lack of solid methodism only. If your males are covered at that point by mature pollen (not the green one), you’re just fucking slow to make your selection. I understand that type of stress, don’t worry. But first, focus on it like hell. That’s 75% of your problem.
If you’re pretty OP on the SD, i can eventually help you in extrapolating with the ECSD knowledge and my love for the JH (finalist of all SH/SSH i’ve tested). But you already know that you have to move your ass 
I’m sure you can cull at least one right now, only by the feeling and the memory of his grow from seed.
There’s nothing else blooming, so I’m not worried about any unwanted pregnancies.
Nice job. So why, with this sense of timing, you have screwed yourself like that with a fake problem ? ^^
I don’t think want to spray him down with water, or do I?
Don’t spray. It’s long and move air (so dangerous), create lava flows of pollen (insurance to be fucked later by the core of it), and you have to dry it don’t forget.
When I keep a bunch of males at this stage, it’s generally to make a Who’s Daddy with one spectacular female only. Or to make a fusion with a bunch of parallel IBL lines that are from the same P1, generally with an unique female also. But I’ve known the case where the choice was really hard with F1 i was not knowing much. A binary choice generally between twos major genetical trends, so i push the males longer to have the time to digg their flower quality and flowering rythm in depth.
Don’t touch the flowers (no pruning, nothing). Take a trash bag, cover the pot/medium with it, duct-tape that on the truck. Reverse the plant, and drench him in a bucket (~20 liters) of water (yes, you read right). Shake it by the trunk and turn it like you’re making a soup. Both sense, horary then counter horary. Get out the male from the bucket, maintain him upside down over the bucket to drain, then repeat. Don’t let him too much in the water. It’s better to do it a fews time fast, that one big time long. I personnally put foliar nutes in the water but it’s up to you. Generally a big N boost. When the whole operation is done (a lot faster to clean than reading my awful text), put him in front of a fan to dry him fast. Don’t be sissy and put maximum power, it have to be fast. Resist to dry manually the leafs, fatal error ^^
I’d rather just wait till the unwanted pollen is not viable, then collect the wanted stuff.
Then all this headache just to make a Who’s Daddy ^^ I understand that your want to store the pollen, not directly use it.
I don’t think I was clear. I just want to know how long any cannabis pollen would be viable for exposed to 50-60% RH
So, thai and all asian strains are surviving with stork or bees for pollen ? ^^. Look it’s very simple in fact.
When you put a female with a male in an isolated space it take around 4 hours to fully seed the female. No matter the strain etc …
But for the pollen of males it’s the freak show on the demand. Just like human in fact. Are your tadpoles pretty fast in swimming, maybe more slow and but unbreakable, maybe weak and slow, maybe … it’s the exact same thing with pollen. Of course it’s a bit let like fish ^^ It’s more about calibration of the grain, their form, the hormons of the males etc … but you can have a lot of difference in the same line, and also from one strain to another.
I remember an Orange Bud that i have pressurized like hell just to wipe out the skunk component, in keeping the taste. This little short thing was flowering like a raw haze, 12-14 weeks. And to make seeds, i’had to literally wrap the males around the trunk of the females to get a decent amount of seeds. Worst pollen i’ve ever seen.
I remember also a Zamal herm that have pollenated a dozen of Skywalker females … 6 months after being culled. By a simple shears not washed. The shears was just stocked in perfect condition after an outdoor autumn harvest witha massive amount of pollen crust, just like you are planning to store your pollen ^^
Over to make an infinite excel sheet with the quality of pollen of all specimens of all line of all strains of the planet … just do like me. Treat it like plutonium.
Hope it help. Move your ass and fix the real problem bro ^^
