Do I have enough time to make seeds?

[Krshna]

Hey guys, so I wasn't going to make seeds this round, but I have a real nice sweettooth #4 male vegging in my tent.... and I was thinking that deep strawberry diesel x sweettooth would be really tasty. Anyway, Im stoned and rambling haha my question is this:

Flower tent is on day 11 12/12 of aproximately 70 days.
If I put the male in the flowering tent now, he will take maybe 2 weeks to stretch and start making flowers? Plus how long to release pollen? That would take me to at least 25, 30 days of 12/12 before they even get pregnant.
How long do seeds take to form? Ive not seeded much, and never really payed attention to how long the seeds take.
Thanks guys, do I have time this round?

 

[Hammerhead]

How many seeds you want??? Take a branch or 2 and pollinate those.. You can harvest the rest of the plant if the seeds are not ready. Jest leave the branches you pollinated until there ready.

 

[jonnybgood29]

takes a minimum of 6 week to make seeds, if heavily seeded can take 8-9 weeks

 

[jonnybgood29]

like hammerhead said, you can let them mature if not ready, and if you do a full seeds, the plant will mature when the seeds do, no matter what day it is as long as you dont seed it at the end of flower

 

[foomar]

Plenty of time , i do this regularly by choice and not missed the seeding window yet.

Should have plenty of pollen by day 40 , still loads of pistills unwithered , lower plant probably less advanced so could just seed that.

From pollination the shortest i have had reliably viable seed form is 30 days , a seeded plant will happily run way past its normal flowering time if done late.

Full seeding on a smaller plant takes a lot longer for high viability , unless you really need many hundreds/thousands would dust light for fewer but fatter seeds , a fast flowered cut in a four inch pot can yield a couple of hundred.

 

[Krshna]

thanks guys! i kinda spaced out on thinking that i could just cut the rest of the plant while they matured, although i dont really want to tie up my room for too long waiting for them to mature. I will just try it and see how it goes

 

[foomar]

Checked records and SWT#3 males dropped pollen from 14 days 12/12 , did pretty much the same as you are doing and produced a lot of good seed.

Do you have the male as clone ? , a good one is worth keeping around , nice traits and structure from mine.

Deep strawberry diesel x sweettooth is just the kind of cross which interests me , some minor expressions could be stunning , odd flavour combinations expected and hopefully some very high yielding individuals , real keepers to be found in the numbers.

If space is tight , three weeks after pollination the plant can be removed from 12/12 and will finish seed under veg light schedule before a natural death , two weeks after and the seed stalls/reabsorbed and the plant revegs as normal.