Here’s my issue: I have a male plant that I’d like to get some pollen from, but I only have the means to keep two sets of lights going. I’ve got my tent in flower right now, and I’ve got some other pretty weak lights set up to keep my clones under. I need the male separate from my flower tent. It’s already formed some small pollen sacs, and it’s had about a week of 12/12.
How does revegging work? If I put him out with my clones on 18/6, will I still be able to get pollen? Or will the growth of the sacs stall and he’ll go back to veg?
Depends on the male and how far are you in to flower, I have had males flowering under 18 hours of lights some other did re veg fine.
If your only purpose is to collect pollen, keep them under 18 and see.
I also had couple of male cuttings under natural light in water and they did open sacks too.
Anyway wait for more people to offer you a better idea if you don’t want to try this.
All you got to do is keep it alive till it drops pollen. Maybe put it near a window or in a closet with just enough light to keep it going. Ive done both before.
Could also put it by your clones and cover it for 12 hours.
Reveg takes a long time.
Hell yeah, thanks guys. Super helpful; exactly the info I was looking for. I turned the clone lights from 18/6 to 16/8, because I figured that wouldn’t be enough to make them flower. I’ll probably just go back to 18/6.
@Floyd you said reveg takes a long time. How long exactly? And is it different for males and females? I haven’t felt the need to try it yet, but I’ve seen people do it, so maybe I’ll find a reason one day.
You’d be better off switching ur light schedule to 24h for a few weeks man, as for the actual time it’ll take I can’t say, the time it takes to re veg a plant is not set in stone but I can say it won’t take very long maybe 2 weeks max.
Your best bet (IMO) is what we do-- carefully yank off all the pods, and cut some clones!
Once his clones have rooted-- ditch the dad and keep the clones for donors.
Easier to work with and keep separate from adult females–
That’s how we do it anyway.
Just my 2-cents worth!
