Re-vegging after 3 days in flower

[stellis0358]

Hi all,

I am going to attempt my first cross. I placed 2 different male strains, 1 in each of my 2 tents with 3 different females in each tent. I was going to just let them flower together and have my 2 males pollinated the females in each of their tent. I flipped to flower Sunday night. I then decided it might be better if I just let the males flower a few weeks ahead of the females, collect the pollen then pollinate once the females are ready to receive the pollen.

So I put the males together in 1 tent and all of the females in another and want to continue to veg the females to let the males get a little bit ahead of them. Yes, I will have to make sure the males don't contaminate each other. When they get closer to opening pollen sacks I will get them segregated.

Is it OK to return my females back to veg state after 3 days in flower, or should i just continue with my original plan? I'm just a little concerned my females might be ready before the males are and I'll miss out on this breeding.

Thanks in advance.

 

[hamstring]

Don't have the experience to say if its ok or not but I have done it a few times.

I was sexing plants to go outdoors and after 6 weeks I didn't have male/female preflowers yet so I gave them 12/12 for 3-4 days.

I can say on one sativa strain the revert back to veg caused it to have some funky growth for awhile.

 

[goingrey]

When you think about it, male plants that are too late for the females to make viable seed don't make much sense from and evolutionary sense. And indeed it has never happened to me when making seeds. But ok, maybe it's a really fast flowering strain that you like to chop early and you don't want any duds in the seeds.. In that case maybe your idea is a good stress test, if some of the girls herm out you can skip pollinating those ones.

 

[stellis0358]

When you think about it, male plants that are too late for the females to make viable seed don't make much sense from and evolutionary sense. And indeed it has never happened to me when making seeds. But ok, maybe it's a really fast flowering strain that you like to chop early and you don't want any duds in the seeds.. In that case maybe your idea is a good stress test, if some of the girls herm out you can skip pollinating those ones.

Well I want to do a cross from the males I have, not self them.

 

[goingrey]

Well I want to do a cross from the males I have, not self them.

Yea I mean if some the girls herm because of the back and forth light schedule changes, pollinate only the other ones that didn't (with the males).

 

[stellis0358]

Gotcha

 

[Ca++]

The males get ahead of the females, and are dropping pollen to catch the first girls ready. It's the girls I would give a head start, if either. Letting them get some development on them, to seed up. Once pollinated, the 12/12 clock isn't really ticking anymore, as evidenced by the continued seed production, even if you put them back into 24h light.

You can keep the boys from the girls, and tap the pollen from them, straight into bags or wraps, that will be viable for weeks in the fridge. Keeping the boys away from other boys serves no real purpose, if you are going plant to plant harvesting the pollen from each. Keep the fans off though, so it does indeed drop, not blow onto everything.

 

[stellis0358]

Keeping the boys away from other boys serves no real purpose, if you are going plant to plant harvesting the pollen from each.

Even if the boys are different strains?