The Skills I Lack

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Each time i have taken a female and used colloidal silver to cause her to make pollen, it has worked.  In a manner of speaking, it has worked.  i have caused the green little clusters of bananas to appear, and then in a few days, yellow dusts of pollen smaller than a period appear as the pod ripens and opens.  i have applied it with a paintbrush to other females in flower and nothing, nada, has resulted.  so, apparently, sterile pollen?

 

while I'm on vacation (from servicing and most importantly managing--rotating headache patients and a perpetual garden--when are we gong to get perpetual patients?  mine is now a perpetual garden in a year stasis under 24/0 cfls hung 6 feet high with temp at 62f) I began to think.  what if i bot a bunch of feminized seeds and got lucky and one of them hermied, or better yet, turned all male head-to-toes?

So I traded for a bunch of barney's farm critical kush feminized seeds.  the seeds grew well and now in flower, 2 out of 12 show balls and I really hope it is not sterile pollen.  Maybe take a week?  Anyway I will soon find out.

 

But thinking of my colloidal silver failures (a separate time years ago seeds did result) what causes sterility in pollen, or what am i doing wrong in trying to make seeds?

 

 

 

 

 

[trichcycler]

sorry to hear about this. maybe the time you decided to pollinate the recipients were not ready?

I've purchased a **** seeds, female and male, only three fem females ever showed sexual confusion,(Blueberry, Tahoe Og, AK48) and when they do the pollen produced is not viable really, unless shooting for a hermie.

 "Feminizing" for seeds can be done a few different ways. If sex confused the pollen will most likely produce more hermie offspring I find. If you want to naturally produce this state of "consfusion" allow female plants(feminized or not) to finish, and only harvest part of it. Continue to flower the buds left behind and most often they will coax out some nannas that have always produced female offspring in my experience. The plants do this in a last ditch effort to produce its own seeds/offspring for genetic preservation.  Also, Reverse will stop this hermie confusion in my experience with Tahoe, a cultivar I continue to cherish since 2008.

 

 Grower methods/garden conditions, ph values, air temps, humidity, bacteria, fungus, light penetration, available par lighting, nutrient feeding schedule, and more will come into play. 

 

. google for book on the subject, solid breeders are a good resource, like DNA, Reserva, etc.there are NO tricks, otherwise they wouldn't be called tricks, instead they'd just be the way its done.

the recipe above with the low par lighting, low temps is a recipe for mildew, without a dehumidifier, prepare for disaster.

 

better luck next time

[Norby]

I've had that happen 2 x but each time there was a successful one(different strain) right next to it under the same conditions.  So at least some strains just don't do well, at least under colloidal silver, in that dept.