Growing seed

A true male? It'll dump so much pollen you don't have to do much at all.. If doing feminized, it doesn't dump as much pollen, but still plenty when done right. You don't have to see it to get 1000+ seed per dry ounce. As the sacs start to open, i simply shake the pollen-donor plant over the others 1/day for 2-3 days. I'd wager 1 day is enough, but I like to be certain. If it's dumping so much that you can easily see pollen in the air, 1 application is all you need. If plant size doesn't make that plausible, just have to find a way to dust/disperse over the plants and the rest will take care of itself. Avoid your hands.. moisture is an enemy here. Turn off circulation fans and such while you do it, so it can fall and settle on the pistils. I give it 20-30minutes before i turn stuff back on -- again, like the "3 days" this is not necessarily a best practice, just what i do. Just being in the same enclosure with a circulation fan will seed them too, but if you want 1000+ per ounce, i'd take an active role and dust'em as best you can. Collect from a plant and blow it over the other plants etc... nice plume/dispersal of pollen is all you need. gravity will do the rest. can do things more directly too -- paint brush... but don't 'brush' it on... collect with brush, then tap it over a bud without touching. it'll spread out better over the hairs. Bulky plants may need a bit more.. i use small plants so shielding from leaves is mostly irrelevant... but you can disperse pollen inside the canopy too, if necessary. You really don't need a big plant. I have a "Fem Breeding" Diary... those plants are twice as large as they need to be to provide 1000+ seed. But, it took a second to get the clones healthy, and that's what resulted, otherwise i would have kept them smaller. You could get 10,000-15,000 seed from a half-pound (dry weight) plant. possibly more. That diary isn't a great example of "ideal" ... i didn't use a high enough concentration of STS and didn't get enough conversion. I've been shaking the plant for over a week to maximize what little pollen it is creating. Regardless, an accidental hermie in a crop you harvest flower from can cause 100s of seeds without any effort, so the application isn't too difficult to accomplish effectively. If doing fem seeds, finding the right concentration that produces the best conversion rate along with the most viable pollen is the trial and error part. I've had full conversion with zero viable pollen before. Less is sometimes more in that regard. I'd rather find a safe point short of 100% conversion with consistently viable pollen. Oh, start the male plant or hermie 7 days before the receivers. Male plant will be dumping pollen in earnest around ~28-31 days of 12/12 and most plants should have substantial bud sites by ~21-24 days. You'll have pollen before that point, but the heaviest amount floating around will start around then.