Sprouting strategy

[Superauto]

Next season I will make my own seeds so I need some help to do the approach as optimal as possible

As far as I know the males can be a become sexually mature earlier than the females making them ready to spread their pollen before the girls yet have any buds, should I then sprout the unsexed seed(where I find my males)some days/weeks later than the feminized seeds?

What do you suggest, sprout all seeds in the same time or let the males sprout a bit later than the females?

 

[troutman]

There are many ways around this and this is what I've been doing for a while now and it works wonderfully.

I germinate all the seeds at the same time and vegetate the plants for a month or so. Then I send them all
into flowering. The minute I notice a male, I isolate him and place the male in another grow area with just
enough light to send it back into vegetative growth. I leave the females flower alone and get a 2 to 3 week
headstart on the male(s) so they build a lot of calyxes. Then I send the males back into flowering and by
the time the pollen starts flying the females are really ready to be pollinated.

Oh yeah, if you want clones do take them prior to flowering for the best performance.

 

[Superauto]

There are many ways around this and this is what I've been doing for a while now and it works wonderfully.

I germinate all the seeds at the same time and vegetate the plants for a month or so. Then I send them all
into flowering. The minute I notice a male, I isolate him and place the male in another grow area with just
enough light to send it back into vegetative growth. I leave the females flower alone and get a 2 to 3 week
headstart on the male(s) so they build a lot of calyxes. Then I send the males back into flowering and by
the time the pollen starts flying the females are really ready to be pollinated.

Oh yeah, if you want clones do take them prior to flowering for the best performance.

Thank's my autoflowering plants will be in the a mini-greenhouse in the balcony for vegging(first 3 weeks) and as they start to smell I need to move them all to a cold frame. So no indoor strategy for my plants
Any idea how to deal with this male/female storage when beeing in a cold frame?
(As soon as the climate allow it I will take them out of the cold frame and plant them outside)

 

[troutman]

I was just about to say with Auto plants things may not be the same. Once they start flowering they
probably won't stop. So you may have to sprout 2 batches of seeds and still isolate the males while
possibly collecting pollen from them.

I don't grow Autos and know they are different than regular plants.

Hopefully, an Auto breeder will say how they do it.

 

[bestothebest]

some good tips for old seeds here: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=334985