Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
Any difference in quality of the end seeds, vs. flowering or 18/6 lighting? I've heard reports of pollen not being the best quality under 18/6 or 24/0 (nothing definitive), so I wonder about seeds.
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Well, about those seeds that i made with the "semi-blooming" (stress, root bound) plants in my veg-cab, i got about as many fully mature seeds as i got light/white colored aborted seeds out of them. i pollinated two small cuts (around 25cm tall) of the same plant and got only around 6 - 8 mature seeds, so not many.
I germinated two of those seeds and they grew just as well as the seeds i have bought from a shop.
I have been keeping cuts going of those two, both females, for over two years now cause i haven't found room to flower those yet. Or rather, i been making seeds on every run since then and i didn't wanna put those two in if they hermie and contaminate the seeded plants. Maybe i'll find room for those this spring.
I found this out awhile back when I had a semi auto flower male pollinate a veg room in 18/6. I consider them to be like testers. If you guys have a male dropping pollen in veg check your female preflowers
Revegging a plant..yes it'll keep making seed and they'll fully develop. Do we know if this will change anything in the seed? Not really sure on this. I don't see anything too wrong with it unless the seeds come out with mutant traits. I don't think DNA would be disturbed from the revegging.
Would you guys buy seeds made like this? I think ethos might be doing this, he mentioned it in the past. Why or why not?
Stress can affect germ rates. I heat stressed a fully pollinated plant a little under a HPS and thou the seeds look ok, only around 10 seeds germinated out of about 300. I wouldn't mess with light cycles if the seed project is important to me ...as little stress as possible is the way to go, imo.
Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
Interesting points, thank you GoatCheese. I remember a run where I pH stressed some seeded plants. Halted seed formation at the tiny white dot stage, but everything still tasted like burnt seeds. lol
Did the heat stressed seeds have any mutants or high male ratios? Or just germination problems?
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I am officially going to cut the seeded bud next Wednesday.
In the mean time I grabbed a couple of seeds at the 5 week mark, from a girl I pollinated. Put one in water 2 days ago and she now has a tail and is in a starter mix waiting to get above ground. Seed popped normally and was a healthy dark tiger-striped/mottled pattern.
Just like any other seed.
Also 2 of my 3 C99's are showing re-vegged growth at about 4 weeks since initiation.
In the mean time I grabbed a couple of seeds at the 5 week mark, from a girl I pollinated. Put one in water 2 days ago and she now has a tail and is in a starter mix waiting to get above ground. Seed popped normally and was a healthy dark tiger-striped/mottled pattern.
Just like any other seed.
Also 2 of my 3 C99's are showing re-vegged growth at about 4 weeks since initiation.
G
Guest
OK,
So all the seeds were allowed to mature 6 weeks before being cut. All seeds look mature, and the 1 seed I did pop about a week ago is doing fine, along with the other recent seeds popped.
So all the seeds were allowed to mature 6 weeks before being cut. All seeds look mature, and the 1 seed I did pop about a week ago is doing fine, along with the other recent seeds popped.
