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Colloidal silver

Wayzee

Wayzee

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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?
 
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!
 
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..
 
A 16 oz bottle of 50 part per million colloidal silver would probably convert four to seven plants + in the US it would be about 25 bucks from Amazon
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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Ok cheers, getting excited to produce my own fem seeds. possibly more excited than the upcoming harvest haha thanks everyone for your advice!
 
Ayyy in the flesh! Nothing wrong with them. Weather permitting you should get a decent amount all up.
 
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 jars
 
Ok cool, by desiccant you mean something like rice.. I was reading about mixing it with flour as well is this something you do?
 
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. :D let's do this.
 
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