1st grow, missed a male, but only have 1 seeded budsite?

[Eudaemon]

Sorry for the terrible title, but I have no idea how to compact it.

Long story short, I am a first time grower, doing an indoor bedroom hydro run of about 30 plants, mostly bodhi gear, with 4k hps/t5 combo. Running ebb and flow with a massive ventilation system pulling air up into the lights.

I missed a male dank sinatra and found it at week 3 of flowering. It had open pollen sacs. I sprayed most of the garden down (except godhead, because it was not near dank sinatra, but godhead grows right near the door) and culled the male.

Three weeks later, I have inspected every budsite in the garden and can only find one thing that looks like a seed. It's on the godhead near the door.

Is it possible that only that one budsite was pollinated? That doesn't seem probable to me.

Growing is a lot more stressful than I thought it'd be, lol.

 

[Collembola]

hello

it depends on how many pistils you had around at week 3.

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your picture is very good example of what pollinated pistils / seeded calyx look like though! (as in nice picture! (not being douchebag))

i think you can probably expect a few more seeds to be honest, like that floral cluster looks like pollen got to some more (the big one pointing to the sky above etc)

perhaps, that it the first seed to develop etc, and in a couple of weeks you will have more.

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for a first time grower / setup, REALLY impressive!!!

although i do NOT envy inspecting 30 plants for seed.

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nothing wrong with the odd seed here and there though,

THE VERY GOOD thing about early pollination is that, the seeds will be fully formed and will pop out of the flowers, as opposed to semi-developed seed inn every calyx etc.

also, can not complain, if you really like the strain.

if they are gifts for people who have phobias of seed etc....

you will probably be able to shake most of them out by harvest time, probably, there shouldn't be many.

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if the females were not in bloom etc , you can realistically expect a few seeds dotted around the place, imE (it happens....)

hehe

have fun growing though, best advice i have recieved.

"WHY THE F ARE THESE STRANGE ORGANISMS GOING YELLOW
GRRR" was my mantra for about the first 5 years...

now its fun fun fun, but i am impatient, my problems not the plants...

(although not trying to make out that don't still suck at growing)

regards,

 

[bigshrimp]

Yeah there might be a few more but if you only see one that a good sign. There have been plenty of times i thought a hermie would destroy my crop only to find a few seeds.

The pollen is not always compatible with the flower.

 

[St. Phatty]

I have caught a fair amount of flak from friends for doing on-purpose what you did accidentally - lightly seeded a crop.

The plants got only a few hours of exposure to the male, and it had not progressed to the normal male pollen sort-of climax (hate to use that word, but), when it gets around to spraying clouds of pollen.

I think you'll have lightly seeded pistils and mature seeds because even if you harvested at 8 weeks they'd have 5 weeks.

I bet they're good seeds


Since it was such a controlled pollination, I think you can sell it as sinse if that is the possible destination.

Of course this will give you a reason to perform lots of product inspection


I didn't see if you say if you had oscillating fans in the room during the period of time when the male was losing some pollen.

 

[Eudaemon]

Thank you all so much for the insight and encouragement! I did have the equanimity of mind to turn off all fans before molesting and killing the male (I loved typing that). I just did a small smoke test of one of my northern lights and have been rendered physically non-viable and cognitively impaired.

If I get a lot of seeds I'd like to give them out for free if possible, to run through phenotypes faster. But I bet everyone has more than enough seeds to run through.

 

[Collembola]

hehe.

you could just throw them into peoples gardens etc etc.

endless possibilities!!

(disclaimer: seriously though, don't do that)

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that's the great thing about this hobby / botany (no point to tie it down to one single species of plant imho) it can last a lifetime of develpment

i learned how over-ferted, under-ripened the majority of supermarket vegetables are thanks to it etc.

get to choose the best ones,

hehe