So I'm starting to look into the breeding side of things for our up coming outdoor season but I dont want to be mucking around with regular seeds. Does anyone here use silver or another method to get females to produce pollen and if anyone pushes their females to the point where they self seed are the seeds mostly female?
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I have used CS, look into STS, Silver Thiosulfate Solution can be had and also works, and yes the seed would be female -
Here is my experience with doing the CS conversion. This was the first time I had done a seed breeding.
Don't worry, be happy, grow sticky buds.Comment
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Colloidal silver works and is probably the best choice if you're going to do this for the first time. It is readily available and doesn't require any mixing or preparation and is shelf stable for a long time. It doesn't produce as much pollen as STS and requires more hands-on work, or spraying that is. If you really want to get into breeding then definitely STS is better because it requires fewer applications and just makes so much pollen! Both will produce pollen that that will always make feminized seeds.
Also, be careful if you're thinking about doing this, it's addictive!Comment
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Ok, that's good to know. I'm only looking to supply myself so colloidal will be my first go to I think. I was watching this clip where they were talking about mixing the STS right and if you don't it won't work.., I'd hate to get to end of it and not get any pollen. How much colloidal silver do you need to convert 1 plant,?
Haha yes I am feeling that already, can't stop running the process through my head and thinking about being able to grow from female seeds that I've helped in creating, also want to have a go at some point pollinating an auto or 2 with a photo and see what I get..
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Hi, Wayzee.
I have used home made colloidal silver the past four seasons for both photo and AF seeds. It is simple.
You will need .9999 fine Ag wire and a DC power supply or 4-5 9v batteries to provide electric current. Google the process online. Use distilled water. A TDS pen/meter will tell you when you have a 50+ ppm concentration.
I have not used STS.
I keep a spray bottle full of CS and spray selected lower branch flowers daily until I have pollen. Toss the treated branch after pollen harvest. You DON'T water to smoke particles of micro silver.
I get anywhere from a few dozen to a couple hundred per treated plant.Comment
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Thanks allotrope. Tomorrow I'm going to be ordering some pre made CS that is 60 ppm and a new tent kit so I can select 1-2 females to reverse and keep them in tent and the strains I want to pollinate in my grow room, hopefully that will work... When you're only treating bottom branches can you then pollinate the flowers at the top ? And do you pollinate a whole plant or just a branch?
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Yes, you can treat some branches and they will turn male while the rest of them turn female. It depends on how many seeds you want for pollination. Pollinating a whole indoor sized plant could give you hundreds of seeds so just doing one big Branch might be enough depending on what you want.Comment
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Hi, Guys.
I will harvest the pollen flowers once I see them start to open, and then let them dry a week to mature and open fully.
I will pollinate both some upper branches of the pollen plant and, if I like the phenotype (robust, good bud structure, etc) part of a second plant.
I initially used an artist's paint brush to transfer the pollen onto the flower pistils, but find that holding a pollen bud and rubbing it over the pistils works well, too, and it is a bit quicker to do.Comment
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Keep in mind that you can keep some of your pollen for about a year, there are better instructions elsewhere for how to do it but the main things are to get it really really dry with some desiccant and then to keep it away from oxygen and heat, I just put mine in the freezer in jarsComment
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Just ordered a new spider farmer tent kit 23"x 47"x 70" with sf2000 301h Evo, 500ml of 60ppm CS, new dirt and nutes.
let's do this.
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I do mix with a touch of flour, which I have pre baked at 200 degrees to make it extremely dry. But before that I will put the pollen in a small jar without a lid inside a much larger jar nestled in some desiccant. So the desiccant isn't actually touching the pollen. Let me know if that does not make sense. Rice might work but probably not very well, I think if you really bake it dry at 200°. Much better are the desiccant balls you can buy online. They change color when absorbing humidity + can be reused by baking in the oven. Those little pouches that come in seaweed packages and the like are not good enough. After it sits in the small jar inside the larger sealed jar resting on desiccant for several days. I will then add the dried flour, put into smaller containers so I have several and don't have to open one container every time, + then label it, date it, seal it up and freeze it. When you pull it out of the freezer, just like when you're pulling seeds out of the freezer, before you open the jar, you will want to let it come to room temperature. That will help reduce any introduction of moisture that might occur from condensation.Comment
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