Breeding Pollen Indoor Tent?

[HillBillyAlien]

Hey there i have a few question about breeding/pollen indoors?

1. How long is pollen active after it comes off a plant?

2. When using pollen on other plants in room and it does stay active for a while or whatever what is the best way to clean the tent so no pollen gets on future grows?

thanks!

 

[troutman]

I'm not sure exactly how pollen is viable for. But misting the plants a few days after they show signs of
pollination will destroy any unused pollen. After you're done growing, I recommend you mist and then
wipe the entire grow tent with isopropylic alcohol to clean everything. It's what I do.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Take your plant to the garage or outside, pollinate. I'd never do it indoor.

 

[HillBillyAlien]

Take your plant to the garage or outside, pollinate. I'd never do it indoor.

yeah this may work, i don't have garage sooo outside would have to be it sadly it will be in the coming month the grow so it will be cold as shit outside, would this hurt the plant and how long would they need to be left be after doing the pollen on the female before moving back inside so none falls off?

I'm not sure exactly how pollen is viable for. But misting the plants a few days after they show signs of
pollination will destroy any unused pollen. After you're done growing, I recommend you mist and then
wipe the entire grow tent with isopropylic alcohol to clean everything. It's what I do.

yeah thought that would work

 

[mr underhill]

I use pollinating boxes that are sealed except for the intake and exhaust which are just computer fans.
I have Merv filters on the intake and exhaust

I put the female clones in with the male clone and let them flower together to 24 days of flowering when most males have dumped enough pollen to saturate the box. The fans ensure steady airflow that fully pollenates any plant in the box. At 25 days I turn off the intake fan but leave the exhaust fan on while I open the door with a spray bottle in hand.
soak everything down and kill the male and bag it in a Ziploc bag. Pull the girls and put them in the flowering tent. I use hydrogen peroxide spray to clean the pots and all surfaces of the pollenating box. The filters are removed, sprayed and into Ziploc bags and replaced with each grow. I use Merv 22 filters cut down to fit my 4" ABS intake and exhaust tubes. also easy to spray out and clean.
Pollen can remain active for over a year in the fridge if it is dry. I store mine in canning jars with a piece of merv22 filter as a lid, held on by the canning ring. I've used fridge stored pollen 2 years later and got seeds but was low seed count compared to 1 year.
Frozen pollen I have used 3 years later and was hit and miss.
throw some rice or toasted flour in with the pollen to act as dessicant.

 

[WelderDan]

I just kept males in another room, and when I was ready to pollinate, turn off fans in flower room, collect a little pollen in a bottle cap or envelope corner and dab a little on a bud or two with a small artist brush a few hours before lights out. Then just before lights out, I'd mist the bud with water and turn the fans back on. Gave me all the seeds I wanted and I didn't have to worry about seeding the whole room.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Hey there i have a few question about breeding/pollen indoors?

1. How long is pollen active after it comes off a plant?

2. When using pollen on other plants in room and it does stay active for a while or whatever what is the best way to clean the tent so no pollen gets on future grows?

thanks!

1. Until it gets wet
2. It stays active until it gets wet. Landing on a horny marijuana female plant's vagina counts as getting wet, but a spray bottle filled with water will deactivate pollen just as readily as a horny wet smelly fertile marijuana plant vagina.

This information is based on my experiences and an episode of Subcool's show on Youtube, probably about episode 250 or so. Also when I was a kid one spring it rained almost nonstop for about two weeks in April when the oak pollen was out and that year there was almost no acorns.

 

[G.O. Joe]

Since everyone else is saying what they do instead of tents - other very successful methods are using the shower as an orgy room, or shaking in a trash bag either as a pair, or male first, or just to collect pollen. This is all a lot easier to do with rockwool cubes. Between grows I vacuum then use a garden sprayer to spray trisodium phosphate, then nonfat dry milk - for viruses especially. Hot and wet is a lot different than cold and dry for pollen.

 

[Ahabicus]

I just kept males in another room, and when I was ready to pollinate, turn off fans in flower room, collect a little pollen in a bottle cap or envelope corner and dab a little on a bud or two with a small artist brush a few hours before lights out. Then just before lights out, I'd mist the bud with water and turn the fans back on. Gave me all the seeds I wantedand I didn't have to worry about seeding the whole room.

Alllright!


So the whole process happens in 3/4 hours?

If lights go out at 12- kill the fans at 8, dab buds w pollen. Around 11 you spray pollinated buds with plain water, which deactivates/dead’s excess pollen; and flip fans back on??

What is the ideal window of bud maturation?

Ho bling does it take for fat healthy seeds to grow?

Thanks!!

 

[dddaver]

It takes 5 weeks for seeds to mature.

I think what is meant by misting to kill any pollen is on the unpollinated buds, to kill any pollen that may have gotten on them. Why kill the pollen on buds you want fertilized?

Unlike some of the advice on this forum, I have actually done this method successfully a few of times. Once a plant has shown sex let the males develop flowers to the point that pollen bananas have developed. Cut the biggest male flowering branches to keep, then kill and remove the rest of the plant. Put those branches in water, in another room, and cover that with a clear, uncapped, 2 liter plastic soda bottle that you have cut the bottom off. A few days later you should see yellow pollen dust falling from those maturing pods. I put my branches, in a cup of water with soda bottle over, on dark plastic in order to see the yellow dust better. Collect some dust. I use a credit card to scrape the plastic and collect the dust into a small envelope. Then turn off all fans in the grow area and carefully using a small paintbrush (or q-tip works) transfer (paint) some pollen onto a few lower buds. Mist all the other flowers except those pollinated buds.Turn your fans back on. 5 weeks later, those buds have grown 30-50 viable seeds.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

It takes 5 weeks for seeds to mature.

I think what is meant by misting to kill any pollen is on the unpollinated buds, to kill any pollen that may have gotten on them. Why kill the pollen on buds you want fertilized?

Unlike some of the advice on this forum, I have actually done this method successfully a few of times. Once a plant has shown sex let the males develop flowers to the point that pollen bananas have developed. Cut the biggest male flowering branches to keep, then kill and remove the rest of the plant. Put those branches in water, in another room, and cover that with a clear, uncapped, 2 liter plastic soda bottle that you have cut the bottom off. A few days later you should see yellow pollen dust falling from those maturing pods. I put my branches, in a cup of water with soda bottle over, on dark plastic in order to see the yellow dust better. Collect some dust. I use a credit card to scrape the plastic and collect the dust into a small envelope. Then turn off all fans in the grow area and carefully using a small paintbrush (or q-tip works) transfer (paint) some pollen onto a few lower buds. Mist all the other flowers except those pollinated buds.Turn your fans back on. 5 weeks later, those buds have grown 30-50 viable seeds.

Thats a really meticulous procedure, I bet you get very accurate results. How long do you let the pollen sit on the target flowers before you deactivate it with mist and turn the fans back on? or do you let the pollen just stay on the flower dry and unmolested by moisture with the fans on?

 

[dddaver]

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