Making seeds

[Cantgrow]

Hi all,

Just realised one of my two little plants is male.

It's going in the bin asap.

What I wanted to know is.....can you pollinate an area on a plant?, or does it turn it all male?

If so I'd like have some seeds for next grow, but not at the risk of losing the last plant ( hopefully female) left.

If I could pollinate some buds that might help.

 

Thanks

[Naycha]

Pollen has to touch the pistil to pollinate a calyx. So if you are careful enough yes you can pollinate part of a plant.

[Stiritup420]

Yes, you can isolate one bud or branch and pollinate it without pollinating the whole plant.. I did this once with a plastic coke bottle.. Do a little research on how to before you try. You have to be extremely careful with pollen though. Its so easy to seed your whole plant and any around it if you get any in the air.

[Jagged]

Are the unseeded buds unaffected by the branch that was pollinated, i think i read somewhere that weight and potency are affected as soon as pollination occurs? Is this through the whole plant or only the pollinated branch?

[Stiritup420]

Sure, you will probably sacrifice something there.  The plant will put some of its energy into making these seeds but as I said I have done this and didn't see a lot of difference. I even found a few stray seeds in the rest of the plants. Not enough to worry about but I was very careful and still a few pollens got airborne.  Probably not something to do if you are growing the plant for yield and maximum potency but if you are only doing a bud or small branch it wont effect it a huge amount and you will have seeds

[Sir PsychoHashy]

I've also read the theory that pollinating one bud will mess with the yield of the rest of the plant, but I've pollinated single buds several times and in my experience I haven't seen any obvious signs of the plants' buds being any smaller or airier, so I don't worry about it.  Wouldn't try to claim that there's no loss, but certainly isn't enough to give a shit about, plus giving up a few grams in exchange for a good stash of seeds is a no brainer for me.

 

Small paint brush, or cotton bud, very carefully apply to selected bud, make sure there's no fans etc blowing, put a paper bag over the pollinated bud for 24 hrs, remove and spray some water over the plant to kill any loose pollen grains, wait for 5-6 weeks.  You'll get a couple of strays, but nothing to worry about if you are careful

[growbabygrow]

Sorry to hijack thread but since its about this topic i wanted to ask i have a male and female in 1 pot isolated away from the rest of my girls. My question is once the pods have opened up and the pollen is free is it safe to assume the female is now pollinated and i could get rid of that male and let her do her thing?

[burner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIgE4j0T6Q8 Edited February 9, 2016 by burner

[growbabygrow]

Thx burner but theres no link in the post...

[burner]

Yeah, It comes up on the post preview, but not when I submit it. Anyway, the link was found by googling pollinating cannabis, it's a you tube video you may find handy....