Any day of fishing is still a good day, having said that, nice catches! Feminized pollen eh? Sending you a message in a min. Got an idea. Hope you get a ton of feminized seeds.
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Male pollen for crosses, and to keep the strain going
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You can do both of those things with feminized pollen. In fact you can do them better because you need less space and you can pick a “father” by cloning your best mother instead of guessing at the Father’s traits.
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I could, but prefer regs for my first round
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Again I’m not trying to argue, but WHY do your prefer regulars? I haven’t read any convincing explanation but many people on OG are convinced it’s the way to go. It just doesn’t make sense to me and I suspect it has more to do with tradition or misunderstand the process of reversing than it does with a robust rationale. Obviously you’re free to do whatever you want, please do so gromie! I do all kinds of things that don’t make sense except that I enjoy them. Just curious if there’s something I’m missing.
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For personal projects and such reversal is fine. It does severely limit the genetics variety in the line though. This is why co-op are open pollination, so they catch the greatest genetic diversity of the line possible. More genetic diversity less chance of genetic depression. My understanding anyway
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Oh yeah ok that makes sense. So when people do open pollination is it just 50 percent dads? If so I suppose you could just reverse 50 percent of your females and achieve the same result as open pollination, no?
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The larger the population the better. If I only had female plants I would reverse all of them and cross them to all of them. This would give the most genetic diversity. I do prefer regular male/female seeds personally. It’s easy to feminize a regular line. Very difficult to get a regular line out of feminized seed line.
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Totally makes sense, thanks friend
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Glad we could discuss it.
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Ive collected the second vial of 25 mL of feminized KRH pollen from the reversed plant. Here is how I do that. Pluck the ripe pollen sacs onto a sieve ($12 on Amazon) that is placed over a metal mixing bowl (lets u see the pollen easy). After plucking is done put it all inside in a warm place the house. Let it sit for three days so pollen sacks can dry out.
After three days use your finger to gentle rub all the dried pollen sacs against the sieve screen. Do this for a few minutes. Lifting the sieve you will see you have pollen.
Use a piece of non-flimsy paper to scrape the pollen together in a pile.
Pour the pollen pile onto the crease of a folded piece of paper and carefully into the 50 mL plastic vial.
I then microwave 3 pieces of rice for a minute and throw those in the vial to act as a desiccant. I then bury the vial completely in dry white flour in a glass jar and put it in the bottom of my freezer. Done. I now have two 25 mL vials of frozen Kentucky Red Hair feminized pollen.
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The fem seeds are developing fast! Ive done this whole dance a few times and I’ve never seen seeds develop this fast after pollination. Crazy. I am going to let them get nice big and greasy striped brown. I have cut all the pollen sacks off the reversed plant and im revegging it (not pictured). Onward we march!
Compare the seed development to the pics I posted only 5 days ago! Awesome stuff.
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So question with making seeds. I see what looks like a super swollen calyx but no pistil can I assume that is a seed “pod” or at least a Bean in the making?
Yes sir! Those of beans being made.
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So awesome man glad to these are going good 
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Thanks and beautiful plants by the way! Seems like an amazing strain.
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If I can get off my ass and do it, I need to jar what’s in my tent this weekend, and I should be starting on mine a week later
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Is there any smell coming off of these?
I will check tomorrow. It’s starting to get cold here. 42 lows at night last two nights. I’m worried I over pollinated and the seeds won’t mature before the plant dies. I’m debating going to 24 hr light in an attempt to reveg. In the process of revegging I bet the plant finishes up those seeds. Or maybe I just need to patiently wait a bit longer. I’m gonna bring that plant inside tonight. I will post pics tomorrow.
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I would just bring the plants inside on cold nights and keep them flowering as long as possible. Even to the point of the plant starting to die and turn yellow. It’s all about the seeds at this point
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