Breeding tips needed

[Mr. Roseberry]

Just wondering how everyone does their breeding. Do you have a separate room? Open pollinate or selective with a brush to apply the pollen? Tents? Do you do seed runs and normal grows at the same time but in different areas or do just one or the other. What do you do to prevent cross pollination? Obviously everyone is different but I'm just trying to get some ideas so I can figure out what will work for me.

Thanks

Mr. Roseberry

 

[hayday]

I used to take my select boys and girls to the back yard and maintain 12/12 with shade or light deprivation for 3 days to a week.Then wash the girls off with water and return to my space.After a few days,pollination is done and the wash stirilizes the pollen.

The males had to stay out longer(go out sooner) to mature obviously.

I can't do that now so I have to make some other plans like a tent in the other side of the house.I will most likely follow the same protocall though,just indoors.

 

[zeet]

Hi Roseberry, Check out Marlo's "Mancave"

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=131242

 

[bboybungus]

I used to leave my males in my flower tent, now, I put them in the tent till balls are formed but haven't turned down (about 2 weeks) then move them to a 5 gallon bucket with an HTG plant dome (like a plastic terrarium cover) over it and move to another room. Bring the females into the other room and use a q-tip to lightly pollinate 1-2 buds. Then wait about an hour and mist them down, then I pre-spray the flower tent down before moving them back in so I don't have cross-pollination with other females in the tent. My plants average about 1.5-2 oz per, and this technique gets me between 25-75 beans per plant, so plenty of sensi to smoke. I also always wait 6 weeks after pollination to harvest...

 

[MJPassion]

Just wondering how everyone does their breeding. Do you have a separate room?
I used to. Now everything seeds are produced outside in order to begin acclimation for my climate.
Open pollinate or selective with a brush to apply the pollen?
Both... How many seeds do you want? Would you like to share a possible excellent creation?
Tents?
Do you do seed runs and normal grows at the same time but in different areas or do just one or the other.
All of the above.

What do you do to prevent cross pollination?
I try not to pollenate in windy blowing environments.
Sometimes cross contamination can't be helped and ya end up with unintended seeds. Not necessarily a bad thing, imo.

Obviously everyone is different but I'm just trying to get some ideas so I can figure out what will work for me.

Thanks

Mr. Roseberry

What works for you, like most, will be dictated by the amout of space you have to work with, your desired outcome, your available inputs & the amout of work you are willing to put into a particular project.

 

[vostok]

Just wondering how everyone does their breeding. Do you have a separate room? Open pollinate or selective with a brush to apply the pollen? Tents? Do you do seed runs and normal grows at the same time but in different areas or do just one or the other. What do you do to prevent cross pollination? Obviously everyone is different but I'm just trying to get some ideas so I can figure out what will work for me.

Thanks

Mr. Roseberry

1: Always have a plan

2: Always take notes

3: If in doubt (and you will) see number 1:

 

[Matt8800]

It depends on if you are making one cross or multiple. If I was doing one cross and pollinating all the females in the room, I would do open pollination. Otherwise, you will need to keep your males separate. NOTE - carbon filters do not filter pollen, you will need a HEPA filter. found out the hard way early in my breeding efforts.

 

[Lester Beans]

Build or repurpose something for a cabinet, install HEPA filters, some CFLs and you are good to go. Just be careful opening the cab as pollen can escape.

Definitely above all else take proper notes and label everything twice.

Good luck!

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

I grow my plants indoors during late winter under HPS so they are a nice size little bush when I put them outside after frost danger. I leave the best male indoors under HPS and collect the pollen. The pollen is dried, I use desiccant, jar the pollen tight and store in the fridge until the outside girls are ready. I use the paper bag trick on a couple branches since I don't need so many seeds.

 

[Dropped Cat]

I grow micro, one small box each for flower and veg.

I flower the females first and introduce the donor male
when the females are ready.

The target females get pollinated.

Then the flower box gets scrubbed. I then can add
new female plant to flower unmolested for sensimilla.

Lots of ways to do it, think about what you want to do and go from there.

 

[Vintage1969]

What about selectively pollinating one branch? Do you put a bag with pollen over It? Any advice on pollinating part of the plant,? With a brush or something?

 

[vostok]

What about selectively pollinating one branch? Do you put a bag with pollen over It? Any advice on pollinating part of the plant,? With a brush or something?

without seemingly to hijack Roseberry's post, I like to collect the pollen, each morning by leaning our man over a glass picture, each night I put him away, and in the morning scrape up the spent yellow residue to a jar.

Then wrap the intended female in a towel, except for the lower lateral that I'll fertilize, with an air bud(ear bud) or small paint brush, paint each flower with pollen, then relocate the plant to some place quiet, no breeze or interruptions for 2-3 hours, then move the plant outside, then gently spray the entire plant with water, to neutralize any excess, avoiding where you just inseminated, don't forget to mark with tag or label what and where you have done the dirty deed

 

[Seaf0ur]

Build or repurpose something for a cabinet, install HEPA filters, some CFLs and you are good to go. Just be careful opening the cab as pollen can escape.

Definitely above all else take proper notes and label everything twice.

Good luck!

HEPA is wayyy overkill... pollen has a quite large particle size. a standard hvac filter rated for pollen is just fine.

source: experience.

hell.... this one isn't even enclosed... but its further away from the grow

head to the walmart craft section.... colored craft pipe cleaners make a nice color coded marking system....

 

[sourpuss]

Seafour dropin knowledge!! Thank you! Helped me a bunch on a future project in mind....

 

[Lester Beans]

Good to know SeafOur, but I'll stick with the HEPA filters. Havnt had any accidental pollinations, and don't intend to. I really dig your little male cabs! Those are slick!

 

[Seaf0ur]

The large one has replaced the smaller plastic one.... both have lived under the exact same lightbulb as my seedless girls... no accidental pollen escaping as of yet... had em in there for about 2 years or so...

probably wouldnt recommend the open topped unit, but its caused no issue thus far being a few rooms away from the girls

 

[Bradley_Danks]

sweet box idea. Whats the tubing coming out the top for? I flower my males in a separate chamber and only in between flowering sensimilla. Thats if im just trying to collect pollen. Otherwise, i like to open pollinate in a greehouse or smaller grow room like a tent. Just crossed 5 females with 3 mickey kush males. Also, to pollinate a single branch i recently tried the zip lock bag method but havnt finished the project yet.

 

[Seaf0ur]

watering tube to care for em without opening the lids.

 

[Bradley_Danks]

watering tube to care for em without opening the lids.

Haha cool!

 

[Matt8800]

What about selectively pollinating one branch? Do you put a bag with pollen over It? Any advice on pollinating part of the plant,? With a brush or something?

First, I collect the pollen by gently tapping the ripened sacs onto a glass plate from a picture frame.
I put a plastic bag over the part that I don't want to pollinate and just leave the part exposed that is going to get pollinated. I find that if you touch a q-tip onto the pollen, you will get enough that sticks to it to be able to tap the q-tip above the buds you want to pollinate. Avoid touching the buds with the q-tip as it will make the qtip sticky.
I leave the females with the bags on for 3-4 hours. Ive heard that 20 min is sufficient but I like to give it a bit more time to ensure pollination. Then I spray the branch and the top of the medium with water to deactivate remaining pollen, take the bag off and put back in the flower room.
When Im done, I put an air purifier in the room I was using as a precaution against cross pollination.
Ive been doing it this way for awhile and it has worked well for me.