Been a week since flipping to flower out of the 6 green cracks the one we suspected to be male looks like our only male was actually hoping for 2 males sounds crazy I know, out of the remaining 5 I have positively identified 4 as female just waiting on the last one 2 show really hope its female (back middle) I love how the nodes are growing so close together definitely a trait I’d like 2 try n keep esp growing indoors. Then in the front row we have the WWxJH which is feminized and last but definitely not least the two 88 G-13xhashplant which so far both look female i could be wrong i wouldn’t mind if we got another male we shall see. The GCs are gunna be stinky girls opened the tent one morning a cpl weeks back wen they were still in veg and was surprised at how much they already stunk of skunk. They are also handling the heat and humidity very well need 2 order something to cool down the rm a lil esp in the morning dont want the other strains to suffer. Have started using liquid fish shit and recharge this run the plants seem to be responding well will continue using those both threw flower along with the buried treasure liquid guano, also have some big bud and bud candy to try out in
6 green cracks
WWXJH fem on the left, the two 88 G-13xhashplant on the right
Group pic
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Close up of the green crack male really starting to show what hes working with lol
Female green crack with pistols
Second female green crack with pistols
The male is such a tent hog thinking of wrapping him up a lil so the girls closest to him can breath a lil more
They were definitely hungry had some lower leaves start to yellow on us they got a good feed a cpl days ago interested to see how they like the new nutes so far I like the results
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enjoyed reading your thread - keep up the good work !!
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Glad you enjoyed the thread so far, thank you for the kind words will definitely keep it up, still a newb at this on our 3rd grow atm with lots to learn still. Grateful I found this site and of course for the awesome ppl on here including yourself. Thank you for all the work you have done for the cannibis community.
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Tied the male green crack up a little bit. Hes a thirsty boy think hes done with his stretch or I hope he is at least. The girls are starting to stretch some more then others. The on ed that was dropped has really bounced back you would never know she had any issues. Going to up there feed a little noticed some are yellowing a tiny bit not to bad just want to catch it before it becomes an issues. Keeping an eye on the male the plan is to collect his pollen and only pollinate a few of the girls 2 possibly 3. This is our first go at this sk we shall see how it goes looking forward to the challenge will learn something either way so it’s really a win win
Male green crack
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One of the girls looking a lil yellowish
Male green crack
Still waiting on the WWxJH and two 88 G-13xhashplant to show sex the WWxJH is feminized so just waiting on pistols and I believe the other we are female also just hav had some issues w LST was a lil rough and had a top break off completely on one and split the stock down the middle on the other one
88 G-13xhashplant
88 G-13xhashplant
WWxJH
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Have been watching the male super close any tips or tricks on when they will be ready and on collecting the pollen is much appreciated. Will be moving the male into a different room on sunday fingers crossed none of the sacks open before then. Got some better pics today looks like some are getting close to opening idk tho
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Male green crack pollen sacks
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the pollen sacs will start to change color and open up when there almost ready, it they look like a blooming flower yeah they have or are dropping that pollen into the wind, but when you move it to another room just give it some good light so that it continues on with pollen making as a window unless south facing may not be enough.
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when you move him to another location he’ll drop some pollen for sure
spray mist him to kill any pollen that may be invisible and don’t be rough with him or… well you know what happens with excitable boys
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pollen collection (from JAWS)
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@Mr.Sparkle thank you I didnt realize that they will change color, we have an extra 150 watt hps light that we will be using just have to find somewhere to hang it from (unfortunately I’m limited on south facing windows) will keep that in mind for future projects tho. @SamwellBB now thats a collection love all the pictures will give him a mist spray before we move him and try to be gentle as poss it helps to know some will drop regardless if anything gets pollinated by accident ill just blame that lol. Thank you both so much for the advice
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Opened the tent and the male had some pollen sacks open. We didnt move him just yet was waiting for a clothing rack I ordered to arrive anyway I got the open sacks off and into a cup, my next question is can I remove the unopened ones that look like they will open in the next day or so and not effect the pollen quality like will it still be usable or do u have to wait for them to open.
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you can strip them balls off because he will make some more very soon and then you’ll have all the pollen you want
everything in that tent and area is now pollinated so…
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just watch for them to swell daily, you can when there about to poof.
The very first layer of petals start to drop.
Thats how I collect my pollens also, I really don’t care too much of one big puff bomb.
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Ok good to know I can strip them, it’s not exactly how we planned but hey that’s life it’s just for personal use, on the plus side I got a crash course in collecting pollen.
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Awesome, the ones that looked about ready to burst had already started to open more I plucked them off and have them drying on parchment paper. Had to go to work so my other half is left to hang the light and move him to a separate room mainly for space reasons. Thanks for the help
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Hey how long is your pollen viable for? Storing in a freezer?
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don’t really know but I just used some more than a year old Dosido pollen and no go - didn’t work
have used other pollen before and it worked fine - probably not as old
my freezer gets opened alot - not the best conditions
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It varies depends on who’s freezing it and practices to do so.
I’ve heard wouldnt depend on it past a year.
I went 6 months but viability really drops.
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The Male green crack has been moved. Hes under a 150 watt hps. I’ve been collecting pollen the past 2 days, this being our first male im full of excitement still. 4 out of the remaining 5 green crack females are showing pistols not sure what’s going on with the 5th it is the one that got damaged she bounced back nicely I’m seeing now that it affected her flowering time though. Cleaned up the bottom branches on all the plants this weekend and some top fan leaves that were overlapping,its the last time they will get trimmed, they should stop producing fan leaves the end of the week it’s been just about 2 and a half weeks since flipping to flower. One of the 88 G-13xhashplant is female noticed some tiny white hairs this morning I believe they both are but will wait for confirmation from the plants to be certain. Gave them a nice water and feed today the nutes we have been using this run are fishshit, liquid treasure which has bat guano and a few others things I’m drawing a blank on atm I want to say sea kelp not sure, along with big bud and bud candy just started using those two will keep track of the results. Also added a tiny bit of cal/mg happy growing
Green crack pollen collected so far
Before I trimmed him up
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The second 88 G-13xhashplant is female it’s just starting to show some tiny white hairs YAY! still waiting on the 5th green crack to show sex hopefully in the next few days I wanted to toss it the other day I didnt hav the heart tho. The nutes I couldn’t remember yesterday is called buried treasure it has bat and seabird guano, earthworm castings extract, seaweed extract and humid acid. Took these pics yesterday just 4got 2 download them after the feeding they got they look much happier today the leaves are perkier looks like they were hungry. Also noticed on two of the ladies that are farthest along the white pistols are changing color hope that means they got pollinated just to be safe we are going to brush a lil more pollen on them in the next day or so
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The 3 farthest along GCs
Group pic
Two 88 G-13xhashplant
WWxJH
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