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A ? about donor plants & silver
- Thread starter JDU
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vostok
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I could not wait I noticed many pods turning brown, so I thought I'd post my method
1: I put one plant in the plastic trash bag
2: enclosed the plant in trash bag I inverted over a black dish(black to see any pollen action)
3: and beat the plant male kola with a pen (GENTLY lol)
4: many discolored grey and brown pods fell off into the dish ...with much pollen too!
5: with a Russian tea sieve(1-2 inch kitchen sieve) I added some pods
6: with the sieve over the black dish, using the back of a teaspoon I grinded the pods into the sieve
7: so the pollen falls into the dish, when all done about 6 teaspoons
8: I scooped it up, to the corner of the dish, and with a cotton bud?
9: then spent the next hour on my hands and knees applying the pollen to 3 favorite females, it was painful but well blazed
10: the phone rang and accidently sprayed the plants heavy with water, I should have waited 30 mins, better half an hour
(for the business of reproduction to be complete) ...so will have to re apply this whole technique again later ..bummer!
good luck
1: I put one plant in the plastic trash bag
2: enclosed the plant in trash bag I inverted over a black dish(black to see any pollen action)
3: and beat the plant male kola with a pen (GENTLY lol)
4: many discolored grey and brown pods fell off into the dish ...with much pollen too!
5: with a Russian tea sieve(1-2 inch kitchen sieve) I added some pods
6: with the sieve over the black dish, using the back of a teaspoon I grinded the pods into the sieve
7: so the pollen falls into the dish, when all done about 6 teaspoons
8: I scooped it up, to the corner of the dish, and with a cotton bud?
9: then spent the next hour on my hands and knees applying the pollen to 3 favorite females, it was painful but well blazed
10: the phone rang and accidently sprayed the plants heavy with water, I should have waited 30 mins, better half an hour
(for the business of reproduction to be complete) ...so will have to re apply this whole technique again later ..bummer!
good luck
FunkyButtLovin
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You should have pollen any day now. Are your ladies ready to pollinate?
Your shears are fine.
Your shears are fine.
JDU
New member
Well a bunch more were open this mornin so I'm gonna go ahead n assume the whole tent is pollinated lol. I hope the girls are ready. I'll hit em again with some of what I saved inna wk or 2.
This is some of what I got from brushing them into a bowl. There are a lot of open ones that are still green though. ??
This is some of what I got from brushing them into a bowl. There are a lot of open ones that are still green though. ??
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FunkyButtLovin
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Water basically deactivates the pollen. He's selectively pollinating then spraying water to prevent unwanted pollination.
FunkyButtLovin
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Color doesn't matter as long there is pollen inside.
vostok
Guest
keep warm the green will dry out ..avoid getting any pollen damp imo as in
Such as Why do you spray them with water? I've not heard of that before'
pollen goes of fast when in contact with water
its worth spraying yourself after a pollen job to save any hassles with other plants
good luck
Such as Why do you spray them with water? I've not heard of that before'
pollen goes of fast when in contact with water
its worth spraying yourself after a pollen job to save any hassles with other plants
good luck
JDU
New member
Kinda confused here.... 1st I didn't get big piles of sacs like vostok
& 2 they didn't all open at once like I expected. In fact I've been collecting "ripe" (I hope) ones for 8days & more keep growing & opening. Here they are this morning- a few brownish, a few opening green & a bunch of new little ones coming up.
....? What's my best course of action?
& 2 they didn't all open at once like I expected. In fact I've been collecting "ripe" (I hope) ones for 8days & more keep growing & opening. Here they are this morning- a few brownish, a few opening green & a bunch of new little ones coming up.
....? What's my best course of action?
