When do you put the males in?

[ReturnOfNog]

Just wondering when you pollen chuck, when do you pollinate the females?

Like to you put the male and the females under 12/12 at the same time or do you flower the female for a couple of weeks so it gets some pistils and then flower the male?
Because the advantage of giving the female a 2 week or more headstart in flowering will mean you get more seeds I think, as there will be more pistils to polliinate.

If I put the male in when the female had been flowering for a month, will the seeds have time to mature?

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

i would flower both at same time but separate locations . pollinate week 3 or when there,s plenty of pistils . seeds will need 6 weeks to mature approx

 

[mtntrogger]

Nope . after many pollinations I can say the best time in my opinion is to put the males in about a week after the females. Otherwise the males are dropping pollen on flowers that arent much more than a couple of pistols. I get way more beans this way.

 

[mtntrogger]

Once they are covered in pollen, I usually have found that 6 more weeks barely does it ... Some strains need more time to ripen the seeds

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

Nope . after many pollinations I can say the best time in my opinion is to put the males in about a week after the females. Otherwise the males are dropping pollen on flowers that arent much more than a couple of pistols. I get way more beans this way.

if your referring nope too me, read my post again , i said separate locations . i like my males with plenty of pollen if i,m going to put them with others or collet too pollinate . put together after 3 weeks or when theres plenty of pistils . guess everyone does things slightly different .

i keep my males separate full stop anyway, and pollinate when the plants ready . i,m normally doing several pollinations at a time of several strains . timing is slightly different depending on strain .

 

[ReturnOfNog]

So will the male produce pollen if it's not in direct sunlight, like if it's in a bright area but it doesn't get the sun shining directly on it?

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

short answer is yes it will . but be better to have decent sunlight, cannabis is a sun loving plant as you know . so i,ve never actually tried what your asking . its not rocket science and you,ll be fine .

 

[Chunkypigs]

from what I've seen recently every strain is unique. pollenating too late seems to produce lots of unfinished seeds for me.
it's like if you wait too long there's not enough room to develop all the pollinated calyxes.
or perhaps there's not enough resources to bring that many seeds to maturity.

I get the best looking seeds when they go off together and the pollenation happens early.

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

true chunky, if you leave your males with the girls too long or pollinate too late all the beans won't mature , i was going to go into removing the male but seeing as its his first pollen chuck wasn't going to get into too much depth. not like it does damage leaving the male in with them . only few extra immature seeds from late pollination .

i find 2 pollinations week apart early flower or would leave male in for a week then cull(not too sure on the length i,d leave the male, as i said before i select plants individually to pollinate ) . also think you may be right with the amount of seed and how many they can bring to maturity .i also find this is more with smaller plants , larger seeded plants don't seem to stuggle as much maturing all the seed. so very well could be a case of not enough resources like you mentioned. (not sure )

i also may only pollinate once depending on what i see ,after the first week on the amount of brown pistils , if i got enough pollen hit the first run i won't pollinate again . (the brown pistils will indicate the amount of pollination success you have ) thats for the guys still learning . its a lot nicer not having to pull immature seed out of a pile of mature ones .

just my take on it i,m only a pollen chucker and everyones got there own take on how they like to do things

 

[Rubber Chicken]

Or you could just keep the male separate and collect his pollen then pollen just some smaller flowers, if you wanted.

 

[Karma G]

Most strains (9 to 11 week flower) like to be polinated between 25 and 35 days flower.

For most seeds. Best to have the male and female flower separte and put males in room at best time. That way the polination happens in a few days. Then take out the males.

This way you get allmost 100% ripe seeds. Not much finaly unripe seed picking as whn polinated over a longer time.

When for persenol use. I advice to collect pollen and polinate a branch in separte space. That will give you more rgen anouf seeds for few grows.

 

[MJPassion]

Flower males separate from females but at the same time.

While males are separated you can either collect pollen to save or just flower him/them or both. Once you are ready to apply pollen you can either dust individual branches/buds using various techs, depending on your desired results. There are quite a few threads dealing with this subject.

I try to pollinate between weeks 2-4 and let seed mature for 6 weeks minimum.

Larger seed sets will take longer to mature.
Feed your seed plants until harvest, if your not smoking them.

 

[Karma G]

Afther i remove males. I feed for 6 more weeks then i do flush for 2 weeks.

I want that dryscreen ����

 

[MJPassion]

Off topic but...
Karma, do you notice a difference between flushing or not with dry sift?
Might have to start another thread if this q takes this too far off subject.
I thought flushing was more to remove un-metabolised sugars & such, from within the plants.

 

[Karma G]

I follow my feeling on that one. I got the feeling terps are stronger and flavor with a flush (depending on grow style). Also when dry screening.

But never realy tested it. To compare

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

Most strains (9 to 11 week flower) like to be polinated between 25 and 35 days flower.

For most seeds. Best to have the male and female flower separte and put males in room at best time. That way the polination happens in a few days. Then take out the males.

This way you get allmost 100% ripe seeds. Not much finaly unripe seed picking as whn polinated over a longer time.

When for persenol use. I advice to collect pollen and polinate a branch in separte space. That will give you more rgen anouf seeds for few grows.

hay, this is what i said , only you said it so people could understand it bahaha

 

[Snook]

Something I read some years ago, found interesting
Breed One Plant Multiple Strains.. I do not do pollen any more, I'm high too much but I did do this it does work... in water!.

BOPMS : https://www.opengrow.com/topic/3764...tiples-strains/page__hl__bopms__fromsearch__1

 

[mtntrogger]

@karma .. Thanks for posting, great info as usual. Will definitely take a bit of what you said and put it into practice next time I get to pollinate. I am with on the flushing, AND have experimented also. Last year I was flushing my indoor Flo plants (soil) for about a month ! The flavor and aroma ,as well as the colors were just amazing ! I had previously always flushed for about 2 weeks. A couple of years ago I was growing in moonshines mix, which is super fertile, you build the soil then never feed.., only water the entire flower cycle. Very cool idea, but tricky to get the timing right.
best to yall

 

[CheifnBud2]

This is purely speculation, but I think that a seed that is given more time to mature would be better in ways. I have always flowered at the same time and then chopped the male once it stops looking healthy or stops producing large amounts of pollen.

 

[ReturnOfNog]

This is purely speculation, but I think that a seed that is given more time to mature would be better in ways. I have always flowered at the same time and then chopped the male once it stops looking healthy or stops producing large amounts of pollen.

Yes, if given a long time to mature the seeds would maybe contain more starch and so have more of an energy reserve to germinate strongly.