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.
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.