Congratulations
Ckbrew !
You made it all the way to the finish line by doing everything right and sharing the ride for others to learn and enjoy. Well Done.
Pollinating the entire plant produces a mountain of seeds and a lot of work extracting them. Selectively pollinating a few branches is fairly easy, produces plenty of seeds and leaves the rest of the harvest with seedless buds. You've probably already found some resources on selective pollination, but here's a quick run at how I do it.
Make a large trash can bag into a "Pollen Raincoat" with a reinforced 12" slit about 12" above the bottom of the bag.
Select a single branch to pollinate then cover it completely with a small white kitchen trash bag. Slide the black "Raincoat" over the entire plant with the branch in the white bag poking out of the slit. Then gently pull the white bag back out, leaving the "Lucky Lady" branch out in the open and the rest of the plant completely covered by her Raincoat.
Tape up the slit in the black bag and pollenate with vigor. Don't skimp, you only want to do this once, so dust the hell out of the branch.
​Go take a shower after that step because you are filthy with pollen dust.​
Leave the whole setup alone for at least a few hours, overnight is better. Then spray everything down with water to neutralize the remaining pollen, bag, branch, floor, walls, etc. Do it twice, just to make sure you got every last bit of Boy Junk off the branch and bag. Pull the tape off the slit in the black bag, remove the bag, and go back to growing the plant as your seeds mature.
The plant in the picture is a very special White Widow pheno that I really want to preserve, but I don't need a thousand seeds and I relish getting some smoke as well. The pollen came from a clone of this plant so this will create "S1" or "Selfed" seeds ensuring that I will always be able to grow it again down the road.
Best Regards,
-Grouchy
PS, shucking seeds from your buds makes Trim Jail seem like a picnic! I feel your pain on cleaning those seeds!!!
