I’m new to breeding and want to give it a go once my Afghans finish up (hopefully in a few weeks).
I want to take 2 distinct landraces and breed the together so I have 5 Malawi Gold Seeds and 5 Freak Chunk seeds from The Real Seed Company.
I intend to remove the Malawi females and use the males for breeding and vice-versa for the Freak Chunk so Malawi dads to Freak Chunk mothers.
Freak Chunk takes ±56 days to flower and Malawi Gold Takes ±105 days to flower.
This means I will likely have to start the Malawi plants off well before the Freak Chunks. I’m planning on running the light cycle 9/15 from the beginning to push everything into flower as ASAP.
However male plants mature and release pollen long before plants finish flowering so if the Malawi takes ±105 days to finish flowering, how many days roughly before a male would start to release pollen? Is there any hard and fast rule for this?
Also how long do the make plants release pollen for?
I want to avoid a situation where the Freak Chunk ladies are reaching senescence and the Malawi lads have barely started cumming but I also want to avoid a situation where the Malawi lads have spunked their entire load before the Freak Chunk ladies have started putting out.
If it was me I would plan on collecting and preserving the pollen separately (and individually). There are several tutorials here on pollen preservation so I won’t detail it, but a few days to dry out you can keep the pollen for years in a freezer.
(I have a long term test running to try and understand ‘how long’…)
The Freak Chunk is probably a couple weeks (genetics may vary)
I don’t know about the longer flower males, I’d expect them to flower longer but there are lots of folks here that can give you a better answer.
banking male pollen at any time before is a great standard as mentioned above.
alternatively without re- reading your whole post i would say you only need to start your female for 10-20 days before that male if that.
I mean at 12/12 they start to flower at similar enough intervals of time to get the job done.
Ideally you want the female to have a bud almost the size of your pinky finger hen pollinating.
Seed take about 35 days to form after pollination.
i can go more into detail if you dont find the info your looking for the only reason i jumped in here was to say please join the freakshow hybrid thread assuming freak chunk is (freakshow X deep chunk)
Also if it is i would love to work a deal out for a trade.
