How long to produce seeds

[dancer]

Hi

After a plant has been pollinated how long does it approximately take them to form seeds? Does it vary a lot with different strains?

Also if a plant has been pollinated at very early stage of flowering will it start making seeds directly and would these seeds be as good as seeds from a plant that has been flowered properly before?

Thank you

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

any calyx with white hairs that are exposed to pollen should make seed.
seeds will take at least 30 days to ripen, sometimes longer. I usually let mine go 45 days after pollination.
In my experience early flower pollinations produce slightly larger seeds, fewer total seeds, but also a lower percentage of unviable culls.

 

[VerdantGreen]

yes i would go for about a month too, longer is better but im sure you would get some viable seeds in about 3 weeks if time is short.

on the other side of the coin, the longer into flower you pollenate, the more pistils per bud and therefore the more seeds you are likely to get. i usually try to pollenate after 25-35 days depending on flower time of the strain.

if you look carefully at the pistils that you dusted, they should have started to wither after about a day - which is a good sign that pollenation has been successful.

 

[2Lazy]

I've made seeds only once before, about a year ago, and I wound up with a lot of immature white seeds. Maybe 30% were bad. I allowed the plants to go a while but I kept my male in there for a while too, so I think there were ripe seeds and not ripe seeds based on new growth that was impregnated too recently.

I think a good judge for when they are really done is that you can see them literally bursting out of the calyxes. When you can see the seeds poking out all ripe on the top of the bud then it's good to cut that nugget. Allow the whole plant to finish and mature though, some seeds will appear finished earlier than others, then you will have a uniform and dependable stock of seeds. I cut mine all at once and I should have let some branches go another 2 weeks realistically.

 

[007.]

Good info in this thread. Not to hijack, but what kind of seed yield is realistic to expect? Obviously there's a lot of variables, but I'd like to hear a ballpark figure. Take a plant that you'd expect to produce an oz (28 grams) of dry bud normally, fully pollinated, what kind of yield (in terms of number of seeds) would you think you'd get?

 

[DocLeaf]

Leave them for at least 60 days after procreation IMO... this will up the amount of viable seeds.

The exact time depends on the female,,(and possibly the male),, in the gamete

Hope this helps,, Peace out

 

[VerdantGreen]

i find that a small cola pollinated - top bud and sidebuds - will give about 50-100 seeds.

i never do more than that really as i like sensi and only flower 4 plants at a time.

tbh i never find many immature seeds at all after 4 weeks or so for them to form - 95% are well formed. perhaps if you do whole plant it may need a bit longer ??

 

[dancer]

Dancer say thank you all.

 

[delerious]

tbh i never find many immature seeds at all after 4 weeks or so for them to form - 95% are well formed. perhaps if you do whole plant it may need a bit longer ??

That's interesting, I usually just hit a few of the lower buds, but last time I threw the male in with an Afghan Haze and a Kali cross from MOD (KaliDream or KaliMost). I let them go about 40-45 days.

The Afghan has nice dark mottled seeds, but the Kali has lots of real small or not fully formed seeds. Always had nice viable seeds from the targeted pollinations in that time frame.

 

[VerdantGreen]

thats probably because the kali was still producing pistils throughout that time, so some of the seeds may have only had a couple of weeks to form after polliniation.

 

[ibjamming]

Good info in this thread. Not to hijack, but what kind of seed yield is realistic to expect? Obviously there's a lot of variables, but I'd like to hear a ballpark figure. Take a plant that you'd expect to produce an oz (28 grams) of dry bud normally, fully pollinated, what kind of yield (in terms of number of seeds) would you think you'd get?

There are a LOT of variables. If you just want some seeds to grow next time, just pollinate a bud on the end of a lower branch. You should get at least 10 that way. Each bud you pollinate will get you that many more. I usually do a branch and get around 100+ seeds.

I isolate the male, I tap out pollen on a piece of paper and carefully brush it onto some hairs using a really soft small paintbrush...something fluffy to pick up the pollen. Just lightly dust it...fans OFF of course. After 1/2 an hour, you can turn them back on. I've never had a problem with pollen getting away. Move slow, be gentle.