Lightly seeded plants and final yield?

[TGT]

I have a four 1000 watt vertical grow going on at the moment which consists of four strains, Bubba Kush, Critical Mass, Ak47 and Super Silver Haze. Everything was going along as planned but out of stupidity I cloned a male Bubble Gum in the next room. It had a few male parts, but we're not opened yet, or so I thought. After I was finished taking the cuttings I noticed I was wrong and a tiny amount of sacks were in fact opened and the powder could be seen on some lower leaves. It was not much but realized that I had been cloning right by my fresh air intake! Could I possibly be any stupider? Unfortunately yes, I usually turn off my intake when using the adjacent room to take cuttings from quarantined plants, but this time I had forgotten! With my stomache feeling sick I carefully bagged the male plants trying not to move them to release anymore pollen and placed them outside. I brought the clones upstairs and went to bed in a worry, when I should have been spraying my one week into bud female plants with water. Three stupid mistakes in a row!

So now I have my plants three weeks into bud that have been lightly seeded with Bubblegum pollen. My question is will this have a sever effect on yield? When I say lightly seeded I mean each bud will have one or two seeds. The pistols are all long, white and healthy with a couple seeds here and there. I am hoping it won't effect yield too much, or at least that is what I hope to here. Please, any experience with this chime in and let this dummy know what you think.

Thanks in advance!

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[medmaker420]

yes it will severely affect your yields, once a plant starts the pollination process they really don't pack it on like they would normally as they are focusing efforts on producing seed and not bud.

 

[TGT]

Oh, that ain't good. Even if only about twenty seeds per five foot plant? Just the bottoms seemed to get slightly pollinated. The tops are seedless for some unknown and godly reason, so should the tops still produce well or should i just cry myself to sleep tonightl? I was really looking forward to this crop.

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[supermanlives]

a very light dusting and a few seeds wont change yield much.i used to pollinate lower branches all the time.

 

[medmaker420]

a very light dusting and a few seeds wont change yield much.i used to pollinate lower branches all the time.

any bud site with seeds in it will be less productive, pollinating lower branches is common and obviously wouldn't affect the higher colas but if the entire plant was lightly dusted in my experience any site itself with pollination occurring will stop packing on weight and focus on seed development.

if it were just lowers i would agree but he said seeds in all bud sites

 

[Iron_Lion]

Shit happens, I've seeded my entire crop quite a few times by accident.

Sucks total ass, hope for a few seeds but plan for a 1000. Pollen is tricky shit and just a little can really fuck shit up.

Yield should be the same, if not better but you have seeds so any extra yield doesn't mean much.

 

[TGT]

a very light dusting and a few seeds wont change yield much.i used to pollinate lower branches all the time.

I never really thought of it that way and even I have pollinated one branch on a mother for seeds and now that I think of it the yield wasn't effected much. Thanks for making me realize this!

Medmaker420, unfortunately you are correct. Some upper buds have a seed here and there but hardly any. Most are on lower branches that usually form useless fluff anyways. I don't know how it happened this way but the ganja gods must be watching lol. It will be interesting to see the difference in size of the final upper buds that do in fact have a seed or two. I have grown these strains before so I will easily see the difference from previous grows. I would think there would be minimal loss as one seed out of a large bud shouldn't divert to much energy away from bud development. Time will tell and I will be sure to keep this thread updated.

Iron lion, I will try to look on the bright side and am ready for more seeds than I first expected. After thinking about it this might be a blessing in disguise. I will have excellent crosses from these and I was planning on making some in the future, just not this soon.

The father was from a Bubblegum seed my wife purchased for me on a trip to Holland. I usually kill off the males but this one was special in so many ways. He was in a beer cup and grew faster than any plant I have ever grown. The branching was perfect, just like an upside down candleabra with the lower branches growing even to the tops to form a nice flat canopy. He was greasy to the touch and stank of strong sweet Bubblegum. Probably half Indica and half Sativa, well, may be more Sativa by a touch. Actually, the more I write the more I am liking this mistake I made. I will have some really nice crosses to play with! Hopefully I can somehow gift these seeds away somehow, any ideas?

Thanks to all who responded and is greatly appreciated. I'll keep this thread updated and even post pictres of the crosses growing out. I guess the best way to learn is through stupid mistakes, and stupid mistakes are my speciality lol.

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[supermanlives]

it happens . i tripped with a packet of pollen once right behind oscillating fan. 3k worth of seeds.lol i think i still got some. i have also pollinated at very start of flower when there is very few flowers. yield wasnt affected much but i hate picking seeds out of smokable weed.lol

 

[TGT]

Your right, it is going to be a pain picking out the seeds because when I accidentally pollinated the plants they were only a week into bud just like yours, so the seeds will be buried deep.

I am now looking forward to my new crosses. I should have viable seeds of Bubba Bubble, Silver Bubble, Lime Bubble (really ak47 with Bubble, but it is a Lime pheno) and Critical Bubble. I'll probably do twenty seeds of each strain separately along with my regular crops. Out of twenty I should find a keeper, and if it's phenomenol I'll try to stabilize it the best I can.

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[sso]

happened the other day, one small plant hermied, pulled it out, forgot to turn off the fan.

huge cloud of pollen went into the cab, with me going "nooooOOOOO! ....fuck." right behind it.


luckily just a few plants got seeds now

and yeah, any bud that got seeds isnt going to do alot of growing. (well, if its not alot of seeds,they do pack on weight, but not alot.

sounds like a not bad turnout for you though. (might get intersting crosses yeah. )

 

[medmaker420]

While I get what you guys are saying I can't see how you can say yield wasn't affected unless you first deseeded it and then weighed it out to verify.

My thoughts are if an entire bud was ruined due to seeds being in it, it really can't be counted for my total weight. The ones that literally have 1 or 2 could BUT until you dry the plants out and check the seed to bud ratio I can't see how you could tell.,

then again that has been my experience with seed runs and everyones mileage and weight will vary as shown above.

props to all and hope you get as much seed free bud as possible!

sidenote/

when you have an OOPS moment with pollen the best thing to do is to sprits with a high ph water to kill the pollen versus blowing or shaking the plants or pollen or trying to wipe them. Also get a wet nap or wet towel and wipe the walls, the fan, anywhere pollen may have blown about.

 

[TGT]

when you have an OOPS moment with pollen the best thing to do is to sprits with a high ph water to kill the pollen versus blowing or shaking the plants or pollen or trying to wipe them. Also get a wet nap or wet towel and wipe the walls, the fan, anywhere pollen may have blown about.

Actually that's my last fatal mistake that I made that I realized after the accident, but I never thought about wiping the walls and other things down, so thanks. Hopefully I'll remember this next time, but I hope there won't be a next time.

On another note the buds seem to be growing well. The plants had a surge of growth on the 21st day into bud. The seeds are also doing well and are huge. I can't see any seeds on my Bubba Kush, but I didn't look all that well. Bubba Bubble is the one I am most anxious to grow, so hopefully I'll get at least ten seeds. It seems my Ak47 Lime pheno got pollinated the most so there will be no shortage of Lime Bubble seeds. Sounds much better than AK Bubble.

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