Well I’ll pull up a chair. You taught me to make photo seeds with CS, so I’ll be interested to see how autos are done. Would you also be able to give pointers/time line recommendations for CS as well as STS?
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Nice work @LoveDaAutos!
I’ve walked the path you are on and look forward to learning new tips and techniques as your grow unfolds.
Two questions to start: Are you mixing your own STS, or using storebought? Will you collect pollen and dust your buds, or just let the pollinated branch do its work naturally?
…Or, I can just shut up and wait to see! LoL
Watching,
-Grouchy 
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As you know @ChefDGreen when I reverse a plant to make seeds I “leave the legs on” meaning I don’t remove the lower branches. Although they don’t produce the best quality flowers they are more then adequate for producing mature seeds. This gives you a best of both worlds scenario as by pollinating the bottom branches you can pull a bunnch of seeds off the plant and still have the upper branches to produce your top quality flowers.
When I reversed autos with Colloidal Silver I would start treating the chosen branch as soon as it was a couple inches long. I would wrap a fluorescent pipe cleaner around the bottom of the branch so I was sure to treat the same branch each time.
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Good day @GrouchyOldMan ! I only began using the STS solution for my last two plant reversals and I liked it. I did mix my own because I wanted to be sure of what I was spraying onto the plants. I have heard a few reports of the store bought STS not working. Could be user error I guess or a result of an inferior product.
The pollen question is a great one. This is an area above my pay grade I’m afraid. I actually have only collected pollen one time and that was my last pollination run with the Cap Junky pollen. I just winged it after doing a small amount of reading and it involved baked rice, vacuum sealing, and freezing. I won’t know if it worked until my next seed making (photo) run which is in the seedling stage at the moment.
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO SUCCESSFULLY COLLECTS AND STORES POLLEN TO SHARE THEIR METHODS WITH US.
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I’ve had this article bookmarked for quite a few years. Great info on storing and collecting pollen
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Oh, there is a really important step that comes before the soaking. SCARIFYING the seeds will improve your germination success rate. The easiest method is to take an 8" x 10" sheet of 80 grit sandpaper, cut it down the middle long ways and roll it up into a tube with the grit facing in. Then I use packing tape to tape full lengh of the seam to keep it into a tube shape. I cut a piece of heavier weight cardboard and tape it securely over one of the open ends of the tube. You can use it successfully just like this but an extra step I use is to pour in a tablespoon of white or playground sand make sure it’s nice and dry.
Then drop your seed or seeds into the tube, put a finger over the open and and shake shake shake. I do it vigorously for probably at least 3 or so minutes. If the seeds still have the tiger stripe calyx stains on them you need to sand them some more.
I soak in a shot glass that I wash every time with H202 warm water. I rinse it out well then add one drop of peroxide to about 3/4 of a shot glass of tepid water and set the shot glass onto a seedling / seed heating pad. I leave it on there usually about 24 hours until I see the taproot starting to split the shell open. I remove it at that point and pour that water onto a folded up paper towel and put the seeds in and fold it over. I then put the paper towel into a zip-loc baggie and seal it up and put it back onto the coolest part of the heating pad. I check them periodically seeing how the taproot is coming along. When it’s 1/2" to 3/4" long I plant it into its final pot. I consider day one of the life of the plant to be when it’s standing and the cutting leaves are opened.
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You know @LedZeppelin that is a touchy subject with me. I buy breeders packs of autos from Mephisto and the darn things aren’t sealed closed. I buy breeders packs from CSI Humboldt and they’re not sealed. For what we pay for seeds the least the breeders could do is mail your seeds in a sealed packet. It’s pretty quick and easy to put a piece of the holographic tape across the top of the pack…if it’s torn the pack has been tampered with. I’ve always struggled with trust issues going back as far as when I was 4 years old and my sister was 3. We both got a baby duck for Easter one year and we were playing with them on my sisters bed. Her duck fell off a wrinkle on the bed and broke it’s tiny duckling neck. She quickly grabbed my perfectly healthy duck and said to me “what happened to your duck”?? The parents took up for her and from that point on I was ruined. 
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With my wife it was hawks. She and her older sister raised two hawks. One day they came home and one had killed the other and ate most of the evidence. The first thing my wife’s sister said was, “Look! My hawk killed yours!”. lol
Even though my wife knew better, she gave her sister the bird.
Anyway, I’m dialed in. Thanks for the holler.
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You had me at autoflower why say anything more lol.
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Ha Ha Ha!! I figured you’d show up sooner or later 
There are a handful of auto growers on OG I keep an eye on here and you’re one of them.
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I thought today would be a good day for a HBMS update. She is exactly 2 weeks old today and I’m a little surprised she’s not bigger then she is but that’s okay cause I’ve kept her environment nice for her. And I’m still learning how to grow these autos. She has some side branching starting and is looking good.
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I trust, sometime somebody show us autoflower project from ruderalis landrace x photoperiod fully step by step. Good luck. mephistos - perfect selection work, not Just another lowriderX
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There are bountiful bouquets of Pollen Collection & Storage Wisdom here:
My pal @Gpaw knows whereof he speaks!
-Grouchy
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I experimented with some of the Cap Junky pollen because I had extra and the strains reputation preceeded it. So I had to give it a shot. I baked rice at about 150 degrees F for half an hour and added some to each of the 4 small ziploc bags I had the dried pollen in. I then vacuum sealed each ziploc separately and then put them in the freezer. I will see in about 6 weeks or so if it’s still viable.
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I will be following along. Sounds like a party going to happen in the neighborhood. Im going to be sitting over here soaking my feet. Only the best of wish’s on your grow
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You know I hadn’t thought of that. That’s pretty sharp of you to come up with that possibility which makes a whole lot of sense to me. I like the Night Owl packaging
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Well yes and no. I have a friend on here who I’ve known over a year. If he told me he bought a pack of lets say Forum Stomper from Mephisto and said he wanted to send me 5 for a breeding project I would trust that they were indeed breeder stock and use them to make seeds. However iif he got a pack from someone he knows and says he wants me to have 5 for a breeding project that’s not gonna happen. Who knows what his friend is sending him. Would I grow them just to grow them sure but I wouldn’t breed with them.
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I have some auto testers, crosses that I’ve made recently that I would love to see grown out. The problem is growers are busy growing other stuff and not open to growing upon receipt. Any auto growers here on OG with an open slot to test one of these strains? I provide you with a 5 pk of fem autos and ask only that you grow them in the near future. I don’t require you to do a detailed journal but do ask you to pop in here once in awhile as the grow progresses and share some pictures and details about how the grow is going. I give them away going down the list.
Fast Buds Lemon Pie X RBI Purple Scoops to be test driven by PioneerValleyOG
Lemon Pie Auto S1 X Blue Cheese Special
Lemon Pie Auto S1 X Straw Dog Auto
Bromar Auto
Lemon Pie Auto S1
Trizkit X Magic Cookies V 1.2
Strawberry Pie Auto X Purple Punch auto
Strawberry Pie Auto X Gorilla Cookies auto
Strawberry Pie Auto X Gorilla Squatch
Strawberry Pie Auto X Bruce Banner Auto
Strawberry Pie S1 Auto Fems
Strawberry Pie Auto X Sour Livers Auto
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Don’t forget it’s daylight savings time today. Remember to set your timers and clocks forward 1 hour.
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