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A conundrum ???

Im'One

Active member
I have two romulan grapefruit that I grew in my greenhouse and they stretched a quite a bit. The lowest internodes are about a foot from soil
I think they may be hard to re veg?
I have a mother plant I have used for cloning for a year now and would like to make seeds. At first I thought is would clone the flowering plants and flip one to make using silver thiosulfate. I cut clones while they were in preflower (about two weeks ago) and the clones died. The only clones that lived were the previously cloned plant.
These two in the greenhouse are flowered about three weeks? Can I flip the clones (that are not even rooted yet) in time to pollinate these two greenhouse females? It's getting cold here although a hard frost is a few weeks away.
Is there another way? Should I just give up and use another plants pollen? I would really like to keep this line going. Of course I can always buy more seeds.
What would you do?
 

Creeperpark

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Try using both pollens on only two different branches and leave the rest unpollenated. Two branches will yield plenty of seeds.
 

Im'One

Active member
They are going to be done flowering before I can get the clones flipped. I don't think these will re veg. I am just going to use my pineapple thai pollen
If I can re veg them then I will see what I can do them. In just afraid as tall and lanky as they are they won't re veg well.
 

Gry

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You mentioned a [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]previously cloned plant.
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Can you pollinate a branch and keep it going
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]long enough to seed ?
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]If you have something going that you like,
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]it is well worth doing whatever it takes to
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]preserve it. A cover over it and stick a
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]heater on a timer in there etc. Sounds like you only
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]need to buy a little extra time.
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