BlueberryReversal - Fem Breeding Diary

march22 Today the fem reversal left the tent for good and was killed off in my backyard. Pretty much done producing anything of substance at this point anyhow. FYI - Go back to first few weeks for details on reversal process. ALL plants do appear to have several fertilized bracts producing seed. pure indica x BB looks like I’ll be in the several hundreds when all is said and done on that one. Durban x BB looks like it will be producing well also.. probably easily get a hundred or so. POTG x BB doesn’t look too full yet but it was a later addition to the tent. Definitely has seeds starting tho. BBxBB also just has a few for sure ones pollinated. This was a tedious process compared to regular breeding. Now I went above and beyond to insure lots of seeds and be confident I’d have seeds at all. This included the last 3 weeks, going in for about 15 min a day and squatting there pulling out ripe pollen sacs and opening them over top the stigmas of the donor fems.. These do NOT seem to act the same way that a reg male would. I noticed the pollen is less per sac, seems almost more dense or less of a fine pollen, also these do not like to open up on their own like a male would.. Other thing, these do not suppress the female hormones entirely.. so you can see there’s trichome covered leaves and bracts.. this is a trap for any pollen that does naturally come out. Whereas a male plant would not have this sticky substance to catch pollen.. These also are in dire need of an IPM treatment.. I’ve been holding off to keep moisture to minimum and insure maximum pollination .. but were to that point now it seems. March 26 So the female blueberry reversal plant has been tossed. Everything’s looking awesome. Plants arent in tip top shape health wise but doing good overall. I’m very happy to see swelling bracts.. also in the last couple days it’s become obvious that the pollination was successful up and down each branch. At first I was worried because I was basically sprinkling the pollen on the top bud and occasionally kind of shaking it to let it go down below to the lower nodes. Also, the fertilization was first noticeable on the apical bud of each branch so I figured maybe that’s all that took the pollen. Interestingly we’ve got kind of seeds growing outside of the bract. I don’t have extensive breeding experience by any means but I’ve never seen it quite like this. And two of the plants are displaying this not just one.. so I’m wondering if it’s a fan pollen thing but not quite sure. Anyways overall very happy at this point.. we should have at the very least 100 of each cross. Probably looking at 2 or 300 for each. I’m not quite sure how much longer we got on these. I’ll judge by the look of the seeds at first, surely won’t chop before they have ripened and turned brown.. I’d say they are probably three weeks or four weeks out. They started flower at two different dates. 2/16 and 2/20 I believe. That means we’re about five weeks into flower give or take.. That’s all I got for this week. If you don’t see the procedure information yet, you can see it in the first several weeks I went through and broke down exactly what I did. In the near future I will update this on the computer and add that procedure to each week. If you got any questions, Feel free to DM me or comment thanks for checking it out