Mar 30: male flowers are starting to open and are basically ready. The corresponding female plants are a bit too young still but they’ll be ready soon.
Mar 31: took one flower from each male and ‘dabbed’ it on the female flowers that are forming. A bit early but will keep doing this over the next week or two to maximize seed production.
Apr 1: another round of male flower dabbing on the female buds.
These are just for feminized pollen, but both ‘male’ plants smell really good and Harambe in particular is nice and sticky.
Moved two trays of peppers and tomatoes out of the tent.
Apr 2: a big all round watering as I think I’ve been a bit short again. Adding banana peel tea at 4 mL/L in water along with calmag and Natures Source.
Apr 4: pollen is now clearly visible when the flowers are shaken. Another round of dabbing male flowers onto the female gorilla glue autos. Even though I’m quite sure this will work, it’s hard to be sure.
Apr 5: flowers on male 2 (Beast) seem pretty much fully mature. Have continued dabbing male flowers onto the Gorilla Glue auto females. Seeds are showing on the females so it seems to have worked. Phew.
@Ganja4Show, thanks. First time trying these seeds and they seem good. I thought the Beast would be the bigger of the two types, but they’re pretty stocky and the Harambe is bigger.
@2x2growing, thanks. There will be lots of plants this year and I need to do a lot better overall than last year. Definitely lots of fun and pretty much my dream job so hopefully I can make it work this year.
@KingSalomonsWeed, thanks and I agree. It will be interesting to see how the phenotypes vary this summer and how the chosen ones will come out the following year. 👍
@Shooey, thanks eh? This is still my first indoor grow, and I’ve got too many other things on the go to sweat the details, but yeah these plants seem to be going well. Hopefully the seeds will be ready in time. I may be cutting it a bit too close.
Great stuff mate 👍 good to see you back into it.
There’s a lot going on!! Would those fem seeds also be auto if they are crossed with autos?
Should be an interesting new project. Good luck with the weather this season bro,, following along 🍻
@@@WeGro, not quite that easy. I made feminized pollen by spraying with colloidal silver. It’s easy enough if you want to do it but it’s not trivial. Same way professional breeders do it.
@Shooey, yes these are for this season. I’ve already got a decent number of Gorilla Glue auto seeds (about 250) but I want lots more. Hoping to have about 400 of these plants this summer. Should work out, but I was delayed getting this indoor setup going which means timing is bit close for a mid to late May season start.