Serious Seeds Chronic Grow

[Medical Marijuana]

Takes about 10 days for the pollen sacs to rupture

[alienpornopot]

the pollen will begin to drop as soon as the male flowers open. they usually pollinate over a few weeks. timing varies from plant to plant. i like to collect the pollen on tin foil . it is easily visible and collects nicely as you can bend and tap the foil. females need at least three weeks to produce viable seed. if you pollinate too early you will have fewer seeds as the pollen must meet a stamen to form a seed. fewer stamens mean fewer seeds. i like to jar the pollen and refrigerate till use. then i'll take a paint brush and dab a little on selected buds of various females. this minimizes contact areas and allows me to fully seed a number of marked, individual buds. if you pollinate too late the buds tend to overmature and invite mold followed closely by rot. the seeds may still be viable but it's gross deseeding a bunch of mold.

[alienpornopot]

by paint brush i do mean the water colour type your children use or the adult equivalent. i had visions of people dipping latex house painting brushes into little jars of pollen .

[4twenty4all]

All that info is MUCH appreciated!! The information in the link is great, everything you need all in one place. They have been flowering for 4 days now so I'll keep a close eye on the male and def put some tin foil under him and use Alien's technique for pollinating. I'm gonna upload some pics soon because I put the 5 new chronic seeds under 12/12 hps with the 2 maybe 3 flowering females. One of them looks like it may have small balls starting to form but also looks like there may be a hair or two.

[4twenty4all]

Here are the new pics:
This is the new suspect male or maybe hermie? Or maybe t is just a girl with a lot of testosterone :-)



Here is a group shot:


Here is a shot of the Male and the tin foil collection cup I made to catch the pollen. I hope this is what Alienpornopot meant:



Finally, here are the 2 week old seedlings on 12/12 hps.

[berrydizzle]

Lookin awesome man...and about 10 days till pollen will start droppin.

[4twenty4all]

Thanks Berry! My first grow wasn't great but I did learn a lot from it and everybody from this site that gave me advice along the way. From what you and ***** say, I should be looking for some pollen to start dropping in another couple of days.

I did end up with another male and decided it would be safer if I destroyed him..... what a tough thing to convince yourself that he is a boy and is baaddd. I understand that each male puts out a lot of pollen and one male should be enough. I didn't want to make the mistake of trying to deal with 2 males and getting pollen all over the place.

[Boss]

12/12's look awesome man :-) Keeps the lights on them and make sure you have air movement or they will stretch on you.

[4twenty4all]

Since my last update I have had a few issues.... I had a temp problem. I vented air from outside and didn't think about night temps until my girls had dying leaves and shriveling leaves. Also, the bottom half of the pots were dry.

I have since removed the fixed saucer on the bottom of pots so now I can see the water drip from the pot when I water. I enclosed the space with plastic tarp to help hold in the heat and added a heater with thermostat. Temps are now 82 day and 72 night. They were 70 - 72 day and below 60 night maybe 50's.

They are bouncing back nicely now. I was able to collect a good amount of pollen and pollinated 2 buds on one of the girls.

Of the 6 plants 12/12 from seed, I am not sure if one is a hermie or girl with fox-tails.

Sorry if the pics are not too clear as I had surgery on Monday and am taking pics with one hand.

Here is a shot of the girl fox-tails maybe:

[4twenty4all]

Yes, all pics above are from one plant.

[berrydizzle]

Hermie seeds give you hermie plants...that looks like a hermie to me, i would chop it so it wont drop pollen if it already hasnt...

[4twenty4all]

Here are a few more pics at different angles. If anyone else has any opinion on the sex of this plant







I figured I would put in a group shot too.

[4twenty4all]

Hey Berry, not to doubt you, because I've seen your grows and you got skills! Just want to be sure with more pics. :-)

[4twenty4all]

Ok, 420 & Berry, I've taken your suggestion and cut down the 2 hermies. I may have 1 boy left which will leave me with 5 girls out of 11 seeds. Thats not too bad considering that they survived me trying to freeze them and deprive them of water accidentally. Hopefully all of the kinks are worked out now and I can still get some decent bud from them

[Medical Marijuana]

Checking in. Good luck. +10 *****