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Making Feminised Pollen with STS & Clone

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Week 1. Flowering
5 years ago
13 cm
12 hrs
6
Normal
Nutrients 2
Sodium Thiosulfate solution 30 mll
SUPERthrive  - Superthrive
SUPERthrive 0.11 mll
This is a cutting from a Barneys Farm strain called Red Diesel , the mother plant is a friends and has produced many clones that produce both a high yield and quality end product. I took the cutting home and immediately trimmed and treated with a rooting agent before transferring it into weak superthrive presoaked eazy plug inside a humidity propagating dome . It took aprox 7 days of twice daily misting with water before the roots came thru the bottom of the plug I then sprayed it to runoff with my premade STS solution , before placing straight into a 12 hour dark period. Two weeks after a strict daily 12/12 period of Light vs Dark I noticed the 1st sign of male pollen sack development. so success so far but not complete until I have pollen to use on another of the Same mother plants cuttings I'll grow out to flower at a later date and create seeds of my Own.
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Week 2. Flowering
5 years ago
13 cm
12 hrs
6
Normal
Nutrients 1
SUPERthrive  - Superthrive
SUPERthrive 0.11 mll
The Male flowers are developing nicely & I only had to treat this clone the one time with the sodium thiosulfate solution rather than the tiresome daily spraying that is needed when using colloidal silver.
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Week 3. Flowering
5 years ago
13 cm
12 hrs
20 °C
6
Normal
9 °C
Nutrients 1
SUPERthrive  - Superthrive
SUPERthrive 0.11 mll
No pollen yet some of the flowers opened but were empty hopefully it will produce some before too much longer still religuously giving 12 hours of darkness.
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Week 4. Flowering
5 years ago
13 cm
12 hrs
25 °C
6
Strong
9 °C
Nutrients 1
SUPERthrive  - Superthrive
SUPERthrive 0.11 mll
Still no pollen but the sacs are really swelling up now so maybe soon....................... Lets hope so , The cutting itself is still very healthy so no problems on that front.
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Week 5. Flowering
5 years ago
13 cm
12 hrs
35 °C
6
Strong
15 °C
Nutrients 1
SUPERthrive  - Superthrive
SUPERthrive 0.11 mll
Finally got a small amount of pollen shed from some of the sacs however not enough for what I need yet so will leave it grow for another week
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Week 5. Harvest
5 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Red Diesel - Barney's Farm
Spent 36 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
9/10
Rated
30830850048 g
Bud wet weight per plant
3 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
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Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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Well I cut and dried the red diesel clone 4 days ago Yesterday I broke up the dried flower clusters and removed a small amount of pollen which was then collected with a small artists paint brush and gently applied to two flowering auto strains from Fastbuds These were Gelato and Girl scout cookies. Hopefully in about 6 weeks time I'll have some seeds to use. Thankyou to all who followed or liked this Diary.
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