when to pollinate?

[Carnage]

I generally find a male I want, get a few females I want to pollinate , move females into the small flower cab, segregate a male in a seperate room of the house and collect pollen.

 

Pollen is good for a few days. Collected pollen in that waxy baking paper. folded it up into a origami envelope and labelled clearly. then kill the male. generally good to drop pollen for 2-5 days.

 

I pollinated colas between days 23-30. Used a fresh clean mini paint brush. one time use. dusted the plants i wanted to pollinate. then let them sit for a few days or so until i could see pistils starting to shrivel up. afterwards I would spray the plants down with straight water, several times (to kill any excess pollen) then return the pollinated ladies to the rest of the crowd in main flowering area.

 

End result for myself was a heap of 20cm tall buds spitting out 100-200 seeds each. I would let them grow for 5-6 weeks, generally picking one or 2 near the end the see how dark and mature the seeds were.

 

dry them in a labelled envelope once green matter was removed (husky bits) . once dry a week toss them into 20 or 30mL jars w/ fresh silica packs.

 

thats my method anyway.

 

as for open air pollination, yea ive done that too. left a male in there a few days, found i had a lot of little white seeds to go with the big dark ones. no favorite method of the 2. paintbrush method enables you to only pollinate one branch of a plant , being a good skill to have later on one day in the future.

 

Carn