Selfing Autoflowerers

[antimatter]

Well folks the grand total is in I sorted, threw out all the bad ones, figured out the approx amount of seeds I got from 21 Auto Ak47 females and it comes to 4600 viable feminized seeds, so 200ish feminized seeds per plant, I hope that helps someone out there.

 

[Mr. Stinky]

but will they germinate? congrats on the sucess so far man

 

[gaviao]

Hey Antimatter,

Few questions if you don't mind....did you use CS? When did you start spraying the plant? I've got some of the DP autoflowers started now and I'm debating whether to use CS or STS. Will pollen from one plant be enough to pollinate 9 others? Thanks. 4600 is great man, I'd be ecstatic with 1/4 of that!

 

[antimatter]

Hey Antimatter,

Few questions if you don't mind....did you use CS? When did you start spraying the plant? I've got some of the DP autoflowers started now and I'm debating whether to use CS or STS. Will pollen from one plant be enough to pollinate 9 others? Thanks. 4600 is great man, I'd be ecstatic with 1/4 of that!

I used CS, just start spraying the earliest female everyday until she hermies, I used distilled water not sure if thats a requirement, stored the cs in lightproof spraybottle, and I sprayed in the darkperiod not sure if that mattered, brew your cs for 8/9 hours.

I look at it like this if you start spraying when the preflowers show it hermies just in time for the bud to develop enough pistils that you get a good amount of seeds, expect them to take 2 extra weeks.

Im not sure what the germination rate is gonna be since from what I have read seeds need time to dry out a bit before refrigeration and than use. Good luck to everyone doing this, autoflowers sound nice on paper but im a bit doubtful if the extra work involved planting more plants is really worth the extra earlyness, I hope they yield atleast an ounce outdoor with a 2 gallon hole, if not than I dont think I will consider them again for my climate.

 

[gaviao]

Did you start your seeds at the same time and just spray the earliest female? If so, she hermied in time to have pollen for all of the other females? Did the one plant give you enough pollen for the rest of them? Would love to hear about your germination success when it comes to that. Hope you reach your goals, ounce per plant is what I'm looking for too.

 

[antimatter]

Did you start your seeds at the same time and just spray the earliest female? If so, she hermied in time to have pollen for all of the other females? Did the one plant give you enough pollen for the rest of them? Would love to hear about your germination success when it comes to that. Hope you reach your goals, ounce per plant is what I'm looking for too.

Only time will tell, I kinda wish I had some a bunch of stock of a regular strain along with the autos to play around with, but thats ok maybe next year.
To answer your question I did just spray the earliest plant and started all the seeds at the same time, but I gotta admit the seeds I got look alot bigger and healthyier than the seeds I bought.

 

[happyherb]

some interesting info here...and im sure it will get more interesting as it goes along..bookmarked for use later HH. =]-~