Bodhi mentioned on one of his latest potcast appearances that after pollinating a plant, you can just throw it in your mom room/ veg room and it’ll continue to make seeds no problem. No need to keep it in flower.
Obviously this technique could give you a lot of flexibility on your grows, allow you to turn over your flower room much faster, and could be a real game changer for small home breeders without much space. I never heard of anyone else talking about this before and I never really thought about it as a possibility.
Does anyone here have any experience with this? Thoughts?
I been considering it myself lately thinking it would be a great to select phenos for breeding, pollinate then reveg. Game changer because you can make a lot of crosses this way using solos or smaller.
So I also heard that podcast and have been discussing it with a few people. That’s said, I put an extra clone into flower and last Friday I pollinated it. It sat in the flower tent for a few days after pollination now it’s back in veg, will report back when I know more
I’m trying this now out of necessity. My outdoor starts need more space and the plants in my seed tent are now fully pollinated. So I flipped back to veg. I’ll report back later.
I am doing something similar right now. I took cuttings of a couple of plants in early flower and put them in my veg area to clone. Once they had roots I put them in soil and hand pollinated. The seeds are developing without issue so far.
Been doing it like a mofo. Just make sure theres enough DLI in your veg area, or the seeds will be smaller. Doesnt affect viablility though. Ive been diong it even more skeezy and droppin pollinated plants outside now that theres plenty of natural light. Allows me to rip thru a lot of repros, and still keep my indoor space for sensi
I started right after hearing about it a few months ago in Bodhis interview, not too long! I’m always itchin to try new and out there methods. For science lol
This is an old freakshow that started flowering in a window sill. Ive been ghetto light depping it since pollinating it, and nights are cold for another week or so, but pretty soon its just going to go on the back porch to live long enough to finish the seeds. Im assuming itll start revegging by june. Its an expirement
Its had several baths, but there has been cross pollination even though its never been in the basement, two floors below.
It eases the mind though, if you only have the one pollenation going on and get a few stray seeds. I imagine itd be a nightmare if one was juggling several things needing them to stay separate.
Very interesting, I also had this though during my current pollination run
but I forgot about it. Great to hear this works. Does it take any longer for the seeds to ripen up or is it about the same time?
@ReikoX, thank you for linking the paper. And thank you @BackyardBoogie420 for your contribution as well
In my limited experience, yes. But not a massive amount more, only like a week IME. Ive only done it 5 or 6 times at this point though, so I dont wanna pretend like Im anywhere near an expert lol
Here’s something I was thinking about: does the pollinated plant reveg in the same way as an unpollinated plant when put back into veg lights? I was guessing that it would not reveg and start making new growth until after seeds are done.
A few years ago I chopped a Doug’s Varin with seeds and flipped it back to veg. The immature seeds on it continued to ripen and I harvested quite a few. I haven’t tried sprouting them yet, but I think Bodhi is probably right.
Yes, it reveges the same, but hangs onto its precious children for as long as it can. The reveg is all new growth, and it even comes out around the seedpods.
