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Making Feminized Seeds

White Widow is ready to plant her own seeds, I guess I'll be taking this one down in a few days.
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Stressed out Strawberry Cheesecake is getting culled. This is the plant that topped herself a couple of days after she started flowering and was left with only her 2 lowest nodes. This pheno smells and smokes great while growing really big buds and colas that are built of monster foxtails and produces nice colors so I pollinated it in hopes of locking in this trait but I think she was pushed beyond her limits and she has started to make sacks and nanners here and there. I intentionally and many times unintentionally stress these plants out with temp/humidity extremes & rapid changes as well as very odd light schedules at times, 24/7 high winds from being closest to fan and never moving, LST, HST, cold rootzone, nutrient imbalance, etc. Everything except bugs and wild pH fluctuations (except the time I forgot to add acid) and this plant got a major dose of all of those things as well as being pushed beyond harvest time to let the intentionally pollinated seeds develop but I still don't trust it and the seeds from this plant will not be used for breeding or shared.
Strawberry cheesecake self topped.jpg
 
I'm going to incinerate it one tiny, smoldering fire at a time. There's nothing wrong with the smoke, just scared the seeds may carry bad or weak genes.
 
i think i know the answer but figured i'd ask since a search was fruitless.

why use silver to herm a plant and produce fem seeds? wont stressing it with introducing light during the dark period do this also?
 
There are many ways of doing it, like willow tea, aspirin, stress. I pulled a plant and it hermied when replanted, I have a set up that pumps air into the soil, many more ways.
 
i just figured there was a reason they would go to the extent of silver.. got to be more than being able to just do one branch.

i figured some ways predispose the next generation to herming and make them less tolerable to stress?
 
There are lots of ways to do it. I use silver because it is reliable, I get pinpoint accuracy and can get as much or as little pollen as I want and I can remove the pollen producing parts before any pollen is released to seed whatever part of the plants I want and create as few or as many seeds as I want, I don't have to push harvest back much if at all.

Majority of this is with autoflowers anyway, they're only in darkness for a few hours during their entire life.
 
I have not smoked really seeded weed for a long time I do remember those seeds popping though :) don't burn yer shirt LOL
 
Yes, it will. Some people just let the plant continue to bloom way past its point of ripeness. It seeds up just the same. Colloidal silver can really mess up a plant, and leave it all burned up. There is a reason why many people won’t use that stuff.
 
Let me get a picture of the branch I've been spraying everyday, sometimes twice a day for the last 2+ weeks so I can show all the messed up burning. I'll be right back.
 
love it. ya i never cull.

i do my best even in the garden outside when two brussel sprout stalks germinate close together i delicately separate and gently blow on the roots to sepoarate the soil and get the free from each other to replant.

i cant recall a situation where i ever underestimated.. tread water a bit and see what hashes out.
 
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