Hello fellow pollen pluckers, I noticed some people having a bit of trouble and I wanted to offer up a bit of advice I got from fellow member fanleaf. I have included the question I asked him so you all would have an idea of what we were talking about but the important part is in the process he describes in his response. I have grown 2 rounds successfully following these instructions. One female purple express auto and one photo female tigers blood aka charlie sheen have successfully produced seeds. The purple express was done first and I have since sprouted many good offspring and they were all female auto's just like their mom : ) One interesting thing, a few seemed to top themselves while very young. Anyway, I just wanted to share. The mist is expensive but works. Hope this may help. Good luck all!
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My question: If I treat one plant (auto white widow) with colloidal silver, like in your video, the seeds it produces will be auto fem seeds, right? So this is a one plant process for getting many seeds?
I am a little confused because of the pollen collecting I've seen people do. Why would one need to collect pollen from one plant to pollinate another if the seeds they are getting pollen from are already auto fem seeds?
I hope my question is clear to you, I am considering building a small box just for this process. I have 8 auto fem seeds and would love to have 100's more. Thanks for your time!
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No problem on the help.
Here's the thing. Some people have trouble with timing to get a single plant to develop the pollen in time to pollinate itself and have enough life left to produce the seeds so they grow 1 plant to collect the pollen and then grow another to pollinate it with in time. This can bring some issues with it though. Yes, those would all be fem seeds because both parents would have been female however you never know what traits will come through from what parent when doing it that way. Basically every strain is a cross breed of other strains and doing that can make any traits randomly show up from seed to seed.
Does that make sense?
Now, how I and many others stop that from happening is this. Firstly don't skimp on the Colloidal Silver. Being new to it I HIGHLY suggest buying Tiresias Mist. It can be found on eBay. In their 1oz bottle they say there is plenty there to do a plant or more. DONT LISTEN TO THAT PART AND JUST GET A LARGER BOTTLE OR 2 SMALL BOTTLES!!! Here's the reason....
They say and so many people who use it listen to the directions and wait until the plant starts to go into the flower cycle before they start spraying a branch......That's why they run out of time and have to use 2 plants...I select 1 good sized lower branch and put a thick paper behind the branch to protect the rest of the plant from overspray and I START SPRAYING THAT BRANCH AT 3 WEEKS OLD IF ITS AN AUTO and 1 WEEK BEFORE FLIPPING TO 12/12 if it's a photoperiod plant.
I place the paper behind the branch, give it 3-4 pumps of spray every single day until I see the branch starting to change from the rest of the plant or if its an auto I do it until the rest of the plant is showing flowers about te size of a penny on the tops . This usually takes 10-12 days on photo plants and 10-20 on autos and then I stop. Then male flowers will form rapidly. This usually takes more than 1 small bottle of Tiresias Mist but not much more than 1 bottle.
So the key is to start treating a bit earlier than recommended. Then as the male flowers form and I see they are mostly developed I pluck 1 or 2 off every day and twist it open by rolling it in my fingers. When I start to see they are mature enough to see pollen come out I speed the process by waiting just a few more days and by then I can usually see which sacks will provide pollen if broke open. I manually pluck 1 at a time and hold it over the plant and sprinkle the pollen over the plant. I do this every day with about 6-8 pollen sacks per day for 4-6 days. I leave the rest of the sacks on the plant to break open on their own and do more whenever they decide.
Doing this cuts down on the time by a week or 2 that the sacks wouldn't have broken open on their own yet. Does that make sense?
doing it this way you not only have fem seeds but the only genetics involved are all from 1 plant. You will get all fem seeds that are 100% genetic clones of the plant they came from.
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My question: If I treat one plant (auto white widow) with colloidal silver, like in your video, the seeds it produces will be auto fem seeds, right? So this is a one plant process for getting many seeds?
I am a little confused because of the pollen collecting I've seen people do. Why would one need to collect pollen from one plant to pollinate another if the seeds they are getting pollen from are already auto fem seeds?
I hope my question is clear to you, I am considering building a small box just for this process. I have 8 auto fem seeds and would love to have 100's more. Thanks for your time!
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No problem on the help.
Here's the thing. Some people have trouble with timing to get a single plant to develop the pollen in time to pollinate itself and have enough life left to produce the seeds so they grow 1 plant to collect the pollen and then grow another to pollinate it with in time. This can bring some issues with it though. Yes, those would all be fem seeds because both parents would have been female however you never know what traits will come through from what parent when doing it that way. Basically every strain is a cross breed of other strains and doing that can make any traits randomly show up from seed to seed.
Does that make sense?
Now, how I and many others stop that from happening is this. Firstly don't skimp on the Colloidal Silver. Being new to it I HIGHLY suggest buying Tiresias Mist. It can be found on eBay. In their 1oz bottle they say there is plenty there to do a plant or more. DONT LISTEN TO THAT PART AND JUST GET A LARGER BOTTLE OR 2 SMALL BOTTLES!!! Here's the reason....
They say and so many people who use it listen to the directions and wait until the plant starts to go into the flower cycle before they start spraying a branch......That's why they run out of time and have to use 2 plants...I select 1 good sized lower branch and put a thick paper behind the branch to protect the rest of the plant from overspray and I START SPRAYING THAT BRANCH AT 3 WEEKS OLD IF ITS AN AUTO and 1 WEEK BEFORE FLIPPING TO 12/12 if it's a photoperiod plant.
I place the paper behind the branch, give it 3-4 pumps of spray every single day until I see the branch starting to change from the rest of the plant or if its an auto I do it until the rest of the plant is showing flowers about te size of a penny on the tops . This usually takes 10-12 days on photo plants and 10-20 on autos and then I stop. Then male flowers will form rapidly. This usually takes more than 1 small bottle of Tiresias Mist but not much more than 1 bottle.
So the key is to start treating a bit earlier than recommended. Then as the male flowers form and I see they are mostly developed I pluck 1 or 2 off every day and twist it open by rolling it in my fingers. When I start to see they are mature enough to see pollen come out I speed the process by waiting just a few more days and by then I can usually see which sacks will provide pollen if broke open. I manually pluck 1 at a time and hold it over the plant and sprinkle the pollen over the plant. I do this every day with about 6-8 pollen sacks per day for 4-6 days. I leave the rest of the sacks on the plant to break open on their own and do more whenever they decide.
Doing this cuts down on the time by a week or 2 that the sacks wouldn't have broken open on their own yet. Does that make sense?
doing it this way you not only have fem seeds but the only genetics involved are all from 1 plant. You will get all fem seeds that are 100% genetic clones of the plant they came from.
