Making Fem Pollen Part 2

Making Feminised Pollen with Silver Thiosulfate solution aka STS Part 2 21st Jan 2020 I have had these clones growing for about 6 weeks now and they were pre sprayed with my STS solution aprox 3 weeks ago. The main difference between using STS and Colloidal silver is that when you use the colloidal silver , you need to spray your plants every day until they show signs of Male pollen sacs forming. This puts stress on the plant and can also cause deformities on the leaves and even burning. With the STS I only needed to spray Once and afterwards the clones showed no signs of ill effects and basically carried on as they were. Once sprayed with the STS , it's simply a matter of keping them under a 12/12 lighting cycle until they give out pollen. This can take anywhere from 5-10 weeks so you need to have patience. In this case the male pollen sacs only became visible to me two days ago so we'll assume it took aprox 2-3 weeks for the STS to do its job in reversing the clones sexual bits from Female to Male. You know sorta like Bruce Jenner 😂 From now on It'll be up to me to monitor the pollen sacs development and collect any pollen that self disperses for further breeding. The last clone I grew out using this method only produced pollen when I removed the mature sacs and let them dry before gently shaking them over a screen to catch the pollen. Any Pollen I collect will be used to make myself a few seeds mainly more pineapple chunk seeds by back crossing with the mother plant. Also I would like to experiment a bit just for fun, so I might do a P/chunk x P/wifi, P/wifi x P/chunk P/wifi x High level maybe a couple of others but it all depends on how much pollen is produced as to how much pollination can be done. The breeders treat entire plants to make fem pollen and I'm only using a few clones. All in all this should be another fun experiment and I'm looking forward to learning from experience. ******Thanks For reading ******

Pollen Project Part 2 These are all going well , the two Pineapple chunk clones both have pollen sacs developing and the Peyote wifi clone is covered in them 👌 I am using a different lighting schedule this time which I think is making them develop faster. Each and Every evening at 5pm they go into darkness and remain there for about 15 hours or aprox 8am. This means they are only getting 9 hours or so of sunlight , but it is Mid summer here so it is Full Aussie summer sunshine All day for the clones. *** now just a quick note on the use of the STS that was used to reverse the sex of these clones. ** I used the sts spray once and once only on the same day that I noticed the very first pistils showing on the Cuttings I took. to get the pistils to show I simply put the freshly rooted cuttings straight into the 9 on 15 off Light/dark schedule. The pistils started to show within just a few days and I immediately and thoroughly sprayed them with the STS until they were literally dripping with stuff. To avoid run off into the soil I just used a piece of old rag that soaked up anything that dripped off the clones. And that's it , then I just kept up the same light/dark schedule and kept them happy with water etc. Remember to always wear protective gloves when mucking around with chemicals and such and keep safety in mind. Thankyou for checking out my update 👍👍

Making fem pollen part two Week three 4th Feb 2020 The clones are going along very nicely , the wifi one looks almost like it could jizz at anytime now and both of the Pineapple chunk clones have sacs that are swelling. Ive added another cutting to the project that was sprayed with the STS solution on the 2nd (sunday) This one is from my Beautiful Indica Dominant phenotype of the Sensi Seeds Jack Herer strain. Cheers for stopping by 👍

Feminised pollen project week 4 11th Feb 2020 The peyote wifi cutting is starting to shed pollen. not in great amounts but clearly visible when shaken. I will go ahead and pollinate the chosen parent plant later this evening when it's cooler and no wind is around. I'll keep the cutting going though as It may or may not continue to provide pollen for a little while longer. One of the Pineapple chunk cuttings started to die off so I dried it and put it in a zip lock bag and shook it. Only the tiniest amount of pollen could be seen so now it's all down to other P/chunk cutting as to whether I will get enough to make my P/chunk seeds. I bloody hope so 😑 Cheers for looking at my update 👍

Fem pollen project Part two completed 16th Feb 2020 So the Peyote Wifi cutting was shedding pollen so I went ahead and used Q tips to (hopefully) pollinate the entire main cola on my spare High Level plant . I then placed some labelled and dated pink ribbon on to remind me of the crossing date and potential harvesting time. This strain " Seedsmans Peyote Wifi" responded extremely well to the STS solution and created visible pollen within 6 weeks of spraying. However because of the tiny amount of pollen produced I will no longer use clones and will next time attempt to treat an entire smallish plant to attain more pollen and potential seeds as attaining a few seeds is why I am doing the project in the first place . I will harvest the bud in about 6-8 weeks and will didplay any results on here Thankyou to those who followed along during my project I hope you enjoyed watching my attempts at making a few feminised beans. 👍 Grey_Wolf 16th feb 2020

Feminised pollen project completed 16th Feb 2020 Out of the two cuttings of Pineapple chunk that I treated with STS solution I managed to procure enough pollen to ( Hopefully!!) have pollinated a nice plump bud on a middle branch of my Pineapple Chunk flowering Plant. I tied on a pink ribbon which denotes what the crossing was ie PC x PC and the date I pollinated it to remind me of when it may or may not be ready to harvest and check for seeds. Because Barneys Farm are no longer willing to ship to Australia 😢 I really hope I get some seeds from this pollination attempt more than ever as I rate Pineapple Chunk as one of the Best smokes I have ever had the privilege of trying. Next time I attempt to make fem pollen I will definately use a whole plant instead of clones as they only produce pretty piss poor amounts of pollen for the amount of stuffing around it takes to clone them , spray them then wait for them to develop pollen etc. Ideally I would like a dedicated grow tent nowhere near my Ladies where I can fit around 4-5 smallish plants and hit them all with STS at the same time whilst maintaining a 12/12 lighting cycle. Cheers for taking the time to read my madness 😂 I must admit I really enjoy experimenting and trying new things and if they work fantastic if they don't then I say oh well shit happens and move onto something else. 👍 Grey_Wolf 16th Feb 2020