i’m making my first seeds and want to know if i should allow an extra week or two when making seeds? is there any risk in allowing them to dehydrate and die naturally in that end period?
thanks. first post.
Cannabis.Sequoia
If your only objective is seeds, run them aground like fishing skiffs.
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have you seen/experienced improved seed quality doing that? thanks
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Generally, this gives the plant time to finish its business.
Typically, after 5-6 weeks of seeding, assuming you have set pollen between weeks 2 & 3, will leave you out at 8 weeks or so. Another 2 weeks will give you better seed, and not as good a weed.
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thanks for the quick earnest reply.
in central northern california, put them in a plastic greenhouse in early december. single oscillating fan.
the single male (chocolate hashberry(self polinated 2 beans from bagseed) planted in the center
4 ladies surround him:
(grapefruit, another “found in the street, literally” selfed 2 or 3)
(2 conspiracy kush, an outstanding lemon-lime unique chemotype, and a more common skunk/mint, from storebought TGA seed)
(durban poison, storebought clone, 12-week’er)
i towel-dry the interior every day.
my latest observation has been urban light-pollution at night.
since there are 3 different female cultivars, varying in flowering-time, i’m probably looking at sequentially harvesting.
i have noticed pistil formation slowing/ceasing on the nearly all purple(temps) ‘grapefruit’.
can’t remember all my questions at the moment, but that’s a genetic rundown.
thanks again.
Cannabis.Sequoia
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How long have the females been pollinated, 1 month?
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You need to decide on the objective. If you just want seeds, or bud to smoke as well. If you just want seeds there are some short cuts or long ways to go about it.
under normal conditions no. that is ok. Sometimes I leave the seeds inside the bud and “cure them” for around a month. I use more fresh air, and less humidity than when curing buds. The down side is that the bud will not be very good for smoking. if you are going for maximum seed production there won’t be much smokable bud anyway.
depends again on whether you want to smoke the bud or not. The average time for a seed to mature is relatively the same for all variety’s so if you pollenate at the same time and dont need to smoke the bud, you can cut them all at the same time because the seeds will be done.
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(i re-checked my calendar)
taken from indoor Nov 18, 2017.
we are wrapping up week 9.
3 of the ladies are typical 9 week plants, the durban is 11-12 weeks.
since the environment has been:
winter in 38.6 deg. lattitude california
a simple plastic sheeting hoophouse, north side protected by larger white building
natural light only (about 9 light 15 darkness hours)
…i estimate slower overall growth.
i will try to make my 15year old camera take a decent picture, if not, might have to text-to-email from my shitty flip-phone. and not to impress anyone, only to clarify the situation. my 2nd year at this.
this is a poverty grow, by the way. 
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If you have seeded plants that are carrying the seed for more than 7 weeks, you are sure to get many beautiful dark healthy seeds.
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You’ll know seeds are ready once the cases start splitting. Don’t separate seeds from bud till after drying. If you’ve only got say 1/3 seed dry and cure normally. Yet more than that give them extra dry time bc seeds hold moisture better. It’s also possible to get more or less 100% seed. In that case def invest in a sift box or tumbler.
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Couldn’t agree more
My turbo tumbler. Throw the containers in the freezer and shake for 30 seconds. Very quick and fairly clean.
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lol
you can modify that for some amsterdam sex freak shop stuff too
sorry my bubble hash is wicked
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No need to explain, on either front.
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Those pour babies, you’re putting British nannies to shame.
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Are you trolling me, lol?
In that event, I would think the Johns would be pretty nervous.
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everyone is on point here as far as seed production goes.
5-6 weeks min from pollination
Longer is better if only going for seeds, so if you can do 6-8 bonus. You can always pluck a seed to gauge where they are at. Typically if the caylx is some what dried or has died back and the seeds pretty much rattle in them or fall out easily, and are dark and full formed your good to go.
Letting them dry in the bud if preferable and dry them more than you would normally, as they are easier to remove.
Also I’ll add make sure to leave the now sifted seeds out in open air for a week or so before moving to containers, especially if they are air tight.
Once you do use a little bit of desiccant for storage, whether dried rice grain or silica or whatever doesn’t really matter.
Also definitely have sifting screens, or use the leftovers for making oil/rosin butter or whatever, as those trichomes will still be there.
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Johns? What’s that got to do with British nannies? Are u trolling me now?
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thanks! i figured: “let nature take it’s course” except no birds bugs etc. 
i started hand polinating as soon as i could shake male flowers loose, by painting them over all the pistils. it felt like making a hardcore porn movie, being some gnarly director, ‘yeah! fck that btch!’
seriously. …and in a good way! lol
this run is strictly to make 4 hybrids from the choco-hashberry dude, but the smoke will be appreciated nevertheless.
last year was my 2nd year, outdoor. 0% spray meant 80% loss to caterpillars, thrips, spidermites.
talk about ‘learning the hard way’. this year will be bT and Spinosad & any predator bugs i can afford. and that’s why this hash is so good.
doh.
thanks to all of you. later i’m gonna post a basic journal of my first 2 years(no pics), and how i learned to watch subcool and what a mistake that was. that dude has basically no gear just hybrids of others’. wtf. can we get an IBL from someone, easily, please?
[grandpasimpsonmode] 'an shtay awh meye lawn
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After watching sub on growmou5 and them talking about replacing his se hps. I lost a lot of respect for both. For one sub has been making $ off bud 4ever n he was being a super cheap skate. Saying he’d upgrade to de hps and use his old hoods. None of the other guys had the balls to tell him he’s wrong because they were to busy kissing his ass. That de can’t have direct airflow and need induction cooling. Also the fact he didn’t even take the time to research b4 spouting nonsense on vid. Some “ibl” on my radar skywalker og f3 new420guy blockhead f5 frost pheno beanho chemD bx3 isp starfighter f4 led seedz
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this may be slightly off topic, but do seeded plants require lots of light to produce high quality seeds? or could a seeded plant finish out its last couple weeks under a single 100w incandescent or similar bulb
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