It can take 3-4 weeks sometimes, for the pollen to start. And some of the sacs do stall out.
Flipped gals don’t seem to just act like normal male plants. It’s a different ballgame.
Keep up the the spraying every 5 days, until the pollen sacs start producing something.
My experience with reversing is that it always looks like it’s not working and then one day you look at it and realize it’s covered in pollen sacs. I think you’re probably just fine.
looks good now just sit and wait, to collect it get a paper plate and put it under the sacs the it will be on the plate to scrape up for later. awesome to see
I use STS. CS is more “on demand”, but it seems like it requires more applications, is harder to standardize, and doesn’t keep as well once prepared. I reversed this Afghani with year-old stock solution.
That’s the exact schedule I followed with my first attempt on a Bogglegum and I had the same result as you. Unfortunately when a few of the flowers FINALLY opened up, no pollen came out.
Not all females are reversible, but I don’t doubt tinkering with different schedules can make a big difference.
You have no idea if anything is happening until it does in a big way with this STS schedule and I wonder if it was actually too much?..
I’m thinking of trying the 2 weeks prior to 12/12 application and then on the day of 12/12, and seeing if that’s enough. She looked pissed off in a way. At least I know she’s not a very good hermi candidate
Once you see the sacs you can stop spraying. You’ll see pollen in a week or two. If its an open pollination it’s a good idea to grab a artist’s brush and as you see pollen drop use the brush to pick it up and brush it over the female/non reversed buds with the pollen for optimal results.
I’ve done reversals on small plants before. These plants were lucky if they yielded 1 oz of flower each but dusting the buds as the pollen fell yielded me hundreds of seeds. This was one single reversed plant and two females pollinated. It really doesn’t take much pollen to make a shit load of seeds
When your making seeds forget about the flower period of a plant. Just let it keep going. A 10 week strain will live on for multiple weeks past it’s due date.
I’m currently doing my first reversals/pollination also. Though my specimen is an autoflower.
So, I started them each roughly three weeks apart and have done my first spray of STS a little over a week prior to the suspected start of the flower period.
I plan to spray every 4-5days until I see something.
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