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Male Isolation Chamber
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Always great knowledge coming from Jump street. Thanks for all your valuable contibutions to our community JLP!
ganjasuiteseat
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HerbalToker
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Thats so damn pimp, Great idea.
ganjasuiteseat
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Fuckin awesome! Thank youuuu
Clayton_Bigsby
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Great idea!! thanks
Double F
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are you guys having success flowering out males under CFLs?
i started reversing an OG clone under HPS light by spraying everyday. she reversed perfectly at first, started throwing pods..
i then removed her/him to a special male chamber that was powered by 100 watts of CFL. i also stopped spraying silver.
well its been 2-3 weeks and no pollen! the male pods are empty, and it almost looks like he is reverting to female!
its too bad because the stink is amazing and smells just like the female OG clone, that pollen would have made some nice crosses.
i started reversing an OG clone under HPS light by spraying everyday. she reversed perfectly at first, started throwing pods..
i then removed her/him to a special male chamber that was powered by 100 watts of CFL. i also stopped spraying silver.
well its been 2-3 weeks and no pollen! the male pods are empty, and it almost looks like he is reverting to female!
its too bad because the stink is amazing and smells just like the female OG clone, that pollen would have made some nice crosses.
Solid DIY K+++
Make your own Joesy, get some plexiglass cut to specs at your local hardware store and just caulk them together like a fishtank is done.
Just FYI I grow males beside my females to collect pollen all the time and I can get away with something much easier because I don't need a huge amount of pollen:
Basically you use an envelope to envelope the the tip of a very small male plant which is then sealed at the bottom to the stem and left openable at the top to catch the pollen and prevent it from spreading.
Start a male clone and xplant into a very small pot (300ml / cup sized), flip it under 12/12 when it roots but is still shortish, when it's done stretch and is starting to grow a cluster of stamens at the top, take a small pair of scissors or tweezers and cut off all stamens forming below the main terminal cluster at the top.
Remember you can see stamens for quite a while before they release pollen so don't panic, you'll get a feel for it.
If it's a stretchy sativa you will have about a one foot bean pole capable of supporting a small coin envelope at the top. If it's stumpier it will be even better, just plan adequately.
Cut away every leaf from around the terminal cluster at the tip down a few inches so that there will be no leaves inside the envelope as it's growing and to make it easy to tape at the bottom to seal.
Take a brown coin envelope, they are a tiny brown envelope, cut off the sealed bottom end. Lower it over the stamen tip so they are contained (remember they will grow longer so leave room for it to grow if possible), then tape the bottom securely so no pollen can leak down between the stem and the envelope.
Fold over the top and tape it just enough so all the stamen cluster is inside the envelope but it's ok if there is a little bit of a crack, it doesn't need to be hermetically sealed at the top. As long as you don't fling it around no pollen will spontaneously come out the top, it just falls to the bottom naturally.
That's it. Every two days from when it starts to release pollen, carefully remove it from the grow room, shake out the pollen onto a paper bindle, mix with cornstarch and a toothpick to stretch it out, fold the bindle and put it in a jar of dessicant to dry for 24 hours then into a mason jar with dessicant in the freezer for long term storage.
I keep a spray bottle of clean water and when I seal back up the pollen envelope I spray the outside of the envelope and all the plant, the pot and my hands and arms. Put it back in the grow room and it will be fine.
This way you can do breeding with one grow area male and female together and multiple little bindles of pollen in the freezer, properly dried and preserved so you can break one out whenever you want without ruining the rest of the pollen and without accidental pollination.
Basically you use an envelope to envelope the the tip of a very small male plant which is then sealed at the bottom to the stem and left openable at the top to catch the pollen and prevent it from spreading.
Start a male clone and xplant into a very small pot (300ml / cup sized), flip it under 12/12 when it roots but is still shortish, when it's done stretch and is starting to grow a cluster of stamens at the top, take a small pair of scissors or tweezers and cut off all stamens forming below the main terminal cluster at the top.
Remember you can see stamens for quite a while before they release pollen so don't panic, you'll get a feel for it.
If it's a stretchy sativa you will have about a one foot bean pole capable of supporting a small coin envelope at the top. If it's stumpier it will be even better, just plan adequately.
Cut away every leaf from around the terminal cluster at the tip down a few inches so that there will be no leaves inside the envelope as it's growing and to make it easy to tape at the bottom to seal.
Take a brown coin envelope, they are a tiny brown envelope, cut off the sealed bottom end. Lower it over the stamen tip so they are contained (remember they will grow longer so leave room for it to grow if possible), then tape the bottom securely so no pollen can leak down between the stem and the envelope.
Fold over the top and tape it just enough so all the stamen cluster is inside the envelope but it's ok if there is a little bit of a crack, it doesn't need to be hermetically sealed at the top. As long as you don't fling it around no pollen will spontaneously come out the top, it just falls to the bottom naturally.
That's it. Every two days from when it starts to release pollen, carefully remove it from the grow room, shake out the pollen onto a paper bindle, mix with cornstarch and a toothpick to stretch it out, fold the bindle and put it in a jar of dessicant to dry for 24 hours then into a mason jar with dessicant in the freezer for long term storage.
I keep a spray bottle of clean water and when I seal back up the pollen envelope I spray the outside of the envelope and all the plant, the pot and my hands and arms. Put it back in the grow room and it will be fine.
This way you can do breeding with one grow area male and female together and multiple little bindles of pollen in the freezer, properly dried and preserved so you can break one out whenever you want without ruining the rest of the pollen and without accidental pollination.
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