We are at that critical point where timing comes into play.
BB reversal is like 5 weeks in. Fem donors to be pollinated went in feb 16 and 20.. did two rounds to make sure something worked.
Reversed BB is just full of male pollen sacs, they are beginning to open up and show bananas. There’s a point between when they open up naturally and when that pollen is easily used, and it’s a couple days at least.
So if I pull a opened sac off now, try to open the bananas it’s somewhat difficult and often not much pollen in there... it’s just not quite ready. In a few days I’ll grab one and it’ll just like turn to dust damn near when I apply any force to it. That’s the time to start really trying to pollinate.
You can see tho, I got several pulled off and opened up and placed right on top of fem flowers.
We’re almost there! Now let’s just hope the couple fems I got going in another room don’t get much of this from it.. I got a couple in week 2-4 right now that would definitely be ripe for pollination.
Thanks for stopping by! Full details on process in first couple weeks write up!
About how much pollen would you say you got from 1 reversed female?
How much less would you say than a reg males pollen?
I'm about to force females for pollen to make fem seeds & I was wondering about how much to expect. Or should I force an extra plant to ensure enough pollen for my female.
@cheetah844, oh and I think you could get better results likely but this blueberry is a very tight noded plant and made it tough to spray well. So it wasn’t a full on reversal it seemed like it was about 60% male parts and 40% female. This was problematic as I described in this week update. The female trichs reallllly like to grab that pollen too.. whereas a male wouldn’t have that issue.
Why such jumping over pollinating, if fan and time would do same, just move pots of future seed plants around tent and position reversed plant in front of oscillating fan ??
Wonderful job for other growers, HUGE Respect !
@AsNoriu, lol thanks bruh. And I’m not sure maybe I did something off.. I’m curious to have another go with the STS and maybe it will be easier.. it was an awesome learning experience tho. Plus I got me thousands of fem seeds 🙀