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at the least 3 or 4 weeks from conception.
If I have a seed crop planned I will polinate at week 3 or 4 of flower...and harvest as normal for the strain (50-60 daysish), and let seeds continue to finish in the buds while drying.
If I have a seed crop planned I will polinate at week 3 or 4 of flower...and harvest as normal for the strain (50-60 daysish), and let seeds continue to finish in the buds while drying.
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yeah seeds on the plant.
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A month give or take...
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Say I was a little late in pollinating a female and she's almost finished her bud cycle.. Anything I can do about that?
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Don't harvest the seeded buds yet....
When you think they might be done, pinch out a random seed to check...
When you think they might be done, pinch out a random seed to check...
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Cool..Grat3fulH3ad said:
I really want to be sure they are ready to be harvested because I only put the pollen on one of the small buds. Looks like there is 6 seed pods so I don't have many.. I REALLy want to see how these plants turn out..
Jack Frost x White Russian..
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When you harvest, leave all of the fan leaves and the seeded bud. Keep her alive for the week or two longer that the seeds will take to ripen.
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Thanks man for the help..Grat3fulH3ad said:
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whats the latest you could pollinate a lady? say I was to do it at 6-7 weeks on a 8-9 week strain?
Desiderata - that is very obscure to say the least.
What I would like to know is can you let a seed mature too much? The idea is to pollinate very early on, like when there are only a few small flowers showing. this way you will have a small amount of seed in the center of an otherwise sinsemilla flower. The advantage over pollinating just a few selected flowers, is you dont have to worry about pollinating the rest of your crop.
So can seed become less viable if its too mature?
What I would like to know is can you let a seed mature too much? The idea is to pollinate very early on, like when there are only a few small flowers showing. this way you will have a small amount of seed in the center of an otherwise sinsemilla flower. The advantage over pollinating just a few selected flowers, is you dont have to worry about pollinating the rest of your crop.
So can seed become less viable if its too mature?
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No. seed mature as a result of pollenation. cannabis is an annual, the function of which, above ALL else, is to produce seeds.
Seeds mature on the plant at a natural rate of 2-4 weeks. Mature seed-cases then split and seed are distributed from the female plant as it withers/ages.
Yes. When dry, and when seed dormmancy is complete,,, with age seed generally become less viable.
hope this helps
peace dL
JayRoach420 said:
you can ALWAYS pollenate fresh (white) sepals,,, but, then, you ALWAYS have to wait for the seeds to develope (2-4weeks). This is irrespective of flowering times.
thus if the 8-9week strain has white pistils at 6-7 weeks, YES. but you may have to wait until week 9-11, before harvesting viable seed.
* a common mistake is to harvest seeded plants too early! been there... seed shells gotta dry on/in the plant to aid dormancy. at which point the seed embryo (inside) is still developing...
hope this helps also...
peace n bloom
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This is one of the tricky parts of making seed the earlier you do it and the longer you wait the more likely all of the pollinated ovaries will grow into mature seed. Some indicas especially have a natural cycle of senescence where the plant starts to kill itself after a certain period of time in flowering. While this is always long after you would harvest a bud for sinsemilla it can hurt the seed ripening process and cause a smaller percentage of the seeds to fully mature. While you will have some mature seeds in 2-4 weeks the longer you go (up to 10 weeks) the higher the percentage of pollinated ovaries will turn into viable seed. So I guess you should keep the plants alive as long as you can. Give them high doses of P and especially K.
I've never had any reduction in viability of mature seed and an increase in the amount of pure seed by waiting. I also like you mentioned apply pollen regularly throughout the flower cycle until all pistils are whithered. Then I keep the plants alive as long as I possibly can. As long as there's no bud mold flowers protect the germination rate of seeds. I keep the seeds in the flowers until I need the seeds then I sieve the flowers making hash and breaking the flowers making the separation of the seeds from the flowers easier and not wasting trichome.
It is not in the best interest of the plants survival to hurt germination rates if the seeds are in the flowers whether the flowers are alive or dead.
It is not in the best interest of the plants survival to hurt germination rates if the seeds are in the flowers whether the flowers are alive or dead.
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If you pollinate early in flowering, does this cause the plant to decrease the amount of new flowers it produces? Does it switch to producing seeds instead of producing more flowers? Or does it continue to produce new flowers like a sensimilla crop would? Thanks.
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First I should explain the physical act of pollination. The pollen grain is released from the male anther (what soma calls male bananas, such a dork) and lands on the pistil. The moisture from the pistil causes the pollen grain to germinate. When the pollen grain germinates it sends a dna containing rod down along the pistil inside the calyx to the ovule inserting its dna into the ovary. If the ovule gets pollinated it starts its development to a seed causing the pistil to whither and the ovary eventually if given proper nutrient, enough time and a proper environment turns into a seed.
The quick answer to your question is yes. If you did 100% pollination on an indica dominant plant it probably would stop producing more flowers altogether. But 100% pollination is pretty much impossible because not all of the ovules with protruding pistils will be mature enough to be fertile at any given time also the pollen grain could possible extend its rod in the wrong direction. However the higher the percentage of pollination the more the reduction in flower production. Also I couldn't imagine anything to cause a 20 week flowering pure lowland thai to stop flowering prematurely and it seems this applies more to indica dominant plants than long sativas that never truly stop putting out flowers.
The quick answer to your question is yes. If you did 100% pollination on an indica dominant plant it probably would stop producing more flowers altogether. But 100% pollination is pretty much impossible because not all of the ovules with protruding pistils will be mature enough to be fertile at any given time also the pollen grain could possible extend its rod in the wrong direction. However the higher the percentage of pollination the more the reduction in flower production. Also I couldn't imagine anything to cause a 20 week flowering pure lowland thai to stop flowering prematurely and it seems this applies more to indica dominant plants than long sativas that never truly stop putting out flowers.
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