growing seeds in winter

[bush buggered]

hey guys. due to a recent setback, i been thinking of puttin in some seeds with the intention of breeding from them. i normaly would do this about january. ive never bred seeds in winter before so i'm a bit unsure of how the likely yield would be. i bought some nice strains and i don't wanna stuff up the few seeds i got.

my question is, will they bear good seeds in winter, will they ripen properly. i have to do this outdoors.

any help on this would be unreal, cos i have'nt got a clue....cheers....B.B.....

[LOGGER_KING]

Should work under a bit of plastic.....OR get them up for awhile under a light than put them out.............If your at the top of NSW u will be fine i think....they dont have to be BIG to get a few hundrd seeds off them MR BB....

[WantDaChronic]

if you dont want to run the risk of losing the few plants you can get from your seeds, vege them for ages, take a bullshit amount of cuttings and then use the cuttings to make the seeds you want even if you have shitty conditions, you could pull thousands of seeds with enough cuttings

[bush buggered]

thanx for replies guys. some good points.....but my main concern is weather the crop of new seeds will ripen under the winter sun or will the shorter light hours allow them to mature proply.....cheers..B.B....

[loylty gets u nothing]

only thing being maybe the frost and extreme cold

dependant on where u are based ofc

also keepin em in pots will have its advantages

like beats the rain and bad weather along with photoperiod manipulation

once its a bit cold and they are displayin effects of the cold

maybe bring em in fore the night out of the cold

all the best

bil

[pacificrim]

i think the idea i read on here re' putting ur plants in a cut off wheely bin is a cool idea,especially for winter.

that way u can easily follow the sun around for max sunlight ,put under cover if it's super rainy/cold/etc & it;s easy to rig up plastic 'awnings' for them if the rain never stops.

u can easily wheel into a shed that has lights rigged if the weather is horrid for too long.

 

i told my mate about the wheely bin idea & he's already constructed a very cool looking mobile bin w a little detachable awning.

he wheels it straight into his back shed under a 400W if need be & back out into the sun when conditions are decent

[scottyboy_09]

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i think the idea i read on here re' putting ur plants in a cut off wheely bin is a cool idea,especially for winter.

that way u can easily follow the sun around for max sunlight ,put under cover if it's super rainy/cold/etc & it;s easy to rig up plastic 'awnings' for them if the rain never stops.

 

the cut off wheelie bin is the way to go mate. thats what weve used and its doin fine.

maybe for a plant thats only going to be a couple of feet high in winter you would be better off with a smaller pot tho as a whole wheelie bin for a little girl could be a bit of over kill... then again if youve got the room and not worried about it being spotted then you can go for gold- you can never have too much room for you roots.

all the best

[RobbieGanjaSeed]

It's my bet if they aren't in a thicket of trees or something they'll be fine.

Of course I wouldn't know what strain the seeds are, but even the old 14 week headers we used to gow seemed to set decent seed late in season. I'm talking baout Kingaroy are, Nth NSW isn't that far dif, so long as they aren't in shade. That was just late season plants, but then I used to grow all winter too.

 

I used to take cuttings all winter, veg them under flurors until they were 12-18 inches and pot them outside in direct sun (I knew the property owner and they were never going to be enormous plants).

 

I'd put sets out in sets of a couple doz at a time all winter until Sept/Oct, even Nov ( I mean they would finish in Nov, not put them out to head then).

 

What I'm getting at is that although I never made seeds on any of these sets, they all developed good healthy heads with no sign what-so-ever of under mature heads.

So mature heads must equal mature seeds I suppose?

 

I hope that's some kind of help.

Mind you, I am talking about direct light all day. It was a very frost prone district, although I thnk they never really copped a hiding that way.

 

Copped hail plenty of times in spring, but that's another story.

cheers

rob

[pacificrim]

just make sure u get rid of any of those nasty females, don't want 'em ruining ur seed stock,,,,haha.

[cctv456]

so what are you saying pacific crim..? keep all the males

 

pacificrim Mar24/07

just make sure u get rid of any of those nasty females, don't want 'em ruining ur seed stock,,,,haha.