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Time to make some autoflower seeds! First had to make a colloidal silver generator. I used an old wall charger that is 8.4 volts, 2 6" pieces of .999 silver wire, and a cut piece of plastic lid. Poked 2 holes in the lid and attached the wire to the charger with some hot glue. Simple as that. Generator is done.
Filled a glass jar with distilled water placed the generator on top and plug it in. The wires get build up on them so wiped them off a few times a day. Let it run for 48 hours. Got a dark amber colloidal silver that is ready to use. Light makes the silver fall out of the solution so I used a light proof spray bottle to store it.
Took some clones off of 2 different pheno autoflowers that had just entered flower. Too late in flower and it wont work. I put the clones under a 23w cfl. I dont want too much light because they have to be wet most the time. Immediately started misting the clones 3 to 4x a day with the silver. Misting the whole clone pretty heavy. Just going to spray, spray, spray.
22 looong days of misting the clones and we have pollen sacs. Nice little sacs starting to open up and show those bananas. I turned this girl into a boy!! I originally planned to collect the pollen and pollinate a few buds of the mother plant but some of these clones have some beautiful fresh white pistils looking for some action so I dont see a point of risking ruining the buds on her. I will just let the pollen drop and dust all the clones. Now I just have to keep them alive until they do their thing.
Not much else going on with these so far several pods have opened up and the little bananas are everywhere. I have not seen any pollen drop yet though. I remember the pods being much more yellow than these when they open up so I am not sure if these are false pollen sacs? I am just going to continue monitoring them and see if they start dropping any pollen.
I moved them outside at the first sight of dropped pollen. Water kills pollen on contact so I sprayed the cabinet they were in and the entire surrounding area so we dont get any unauthorized reproduction going on around here. Got a lot of pollen dropping now and I have spotted at least 10 seeds developing. Just going to let them grow until they either die or I see a lot of mature seeds.
Well it looks like some of the seeds are starting to turn brown and they are nice and plump. Still looks like at least 20 seeds. This has been more of an experiment to see how well autos react to colloidal silver treatment but with a value of $10 a seed it was definitely worth the effort. Would be just as easy to make hundreds of seeds. I was able to save the genetics of 2 different phenos which is always nice. I am thinking these will be ready to harvest in a week or so. Hopefully nothing eats them between now and then.
Pollen production has slowed down and the seeds are ripening up. I think they will be ready in about a week. Just been keeping them outside in the shade and giving them plain water.
Harvested 19 seeds. There are a few more that are not mature yet. I would definitely recommend using 2 whole plants rather than clones to make seeds so you get a lot more out of the same amount of work. But autoflowers seem to react pretty well to colloidal silver. I will dry the seeds for a couple weeks then they will be ready to sprout.
So with using colodial silver you trick the female into turning male and making seeds itself. But how can you cross different strains in this way? can you without male pollen from a different plant?
@Fruitgrower, this was done with the six shooters. You could take this pollen and dust it on any flowering female plant that you want. On those cheese cookies I sprayed a GSC clone to make her produce pollen then dusted it on a cheese clone that was in flower.
@frogDUDE, yes I cut them and start spraying as soon as the plant starts producing pistils. You have to be fast with autos to make sure they have enough life left in them to produce viable seeds
they are pods and yes they will drop some pollen as soon they open the best way to collect it is a small yellow envelope and a small paint brush
your bud will not be to potent after that but still have a lots of purpose
@mr_green_thumb_ottawa, I have to ask, why does the envelope need to be small and yellow? 😜 So jelly of you southerners! It got cold quickly here on the wet coast.
ok this is badass now i dont have to waste a whole plant for seeds. ill make clones in coco, so u sprayed them straight after rooting or imediatly after the cut ?
That's pretty cool making your own colidial silver and spraying them such a long ass process that takes patience man .Are you going to keep crossing them next grow what traits are you looking for with these girls ..
@Cannibalgardens, there are so many stains out there these days. When I get serious about a project I am probably going to try to work on a pure sativa and try to maximize the thc in it. That excites me!
@Wicked_Stix,I could see them being more difficult for sure but your doing it lol .it's just really cool to think about breeding and crossing genetics ..
Hey there! Kinda a deeper question for you. You are budding plants for smoke, while also having one dumping pollen on itself. In theory all it takes is a fly to land on some pollen and then transport it to another plant, or an adjacent grow area... Or for some pollen to stick to your clothing and fall off over another budding plant. How do you keep that from happening?
@Wicked_Stix, ah nice! I'll keep that in mind. I'm following this closely as I want to do the same some day. I feel like it'd be easier to just have a bunch of seeds than have to make clones all the time, ya know?! Plus then you're always 1st generation.
I'm always paranoid and clean up when I've been outside and then need to open my indoor tent. Who knows what kind of bugs, fungus, etc you're gonna drag in!
@Jwjoh, I keep the pollen clones outside and wash my hands and arms off after being around them but yeah there is always a risk of pollinating another grow. No way to be 100% on that.
thanks for documenting this, this is exactly what I'm planning on doing this run but haven't seen a decent run through of the process so I appreciate the work! 🙏✊
First of all thnx for your answer on my question.
Something i want to try next season,stressing your plant with colloïdal silver to generate seeds.
But i find different times of when to do it en non on when to do it on a auto.
When did you start to stress her?
Thnx
@Mano76, I cut clones as soon as the plant hit preflower and inmediately started spraying them the day they were cut. If you are using a plant rather than clones then you start spraying them as soon as you see pistils popping up. You only want to do it under low wattage cfl lights because spraying them under high power lights will fry the plant. I learned this the hard way lol. It doesnt really stress the plant. It just blocks chemicals that trick it into producing pollen.
Wicked_Stix
