Tips tricks guerilla pollen chucking thread

Thought it would be nice if folks could share their guerilla seed making tricks. Obviously this usually isn't sam the skunkman style of breeding. Unless you are very fortunate!

My first tip is to limit to 2'strains per patch. This ensures knowing which parents made a bean to 2 strains.

Also seed plants don't require as much care and forthought as growing for yeild and quality smoke.

As always, looking forward to words from the wise!

Thanks for starting this thread! I've been open pollinating for about 11 years, and I've learned a lot.

In July/August in the preflower stage, its possible to determine sex. The male preflowers will look split like they have a claw or 2 fingers. Female flowers have a white hair or 2 coming out and resemble a tube in structure. Make sure you know what you're looking at when culling males, you only get one chance. If in doubt let it grow another few days and inspect preflowers again.

Don't cull all the early males and not have a male dropping pollen early to mid August when the female flowers clusters are small. The idea is to pollinate when the female flowers are no larger than a pencil eraser. If the early males are culled to leave room for female growth, it can risk not having pollen ready for timely pollination.

Leave at least 2 males to pollinate to allow more diveirsity in the crosses. Ideally the males chosen will be branchy with tight internode spacing. Keep an eye out for desirable phenotypes and cull the rest besides 2. Rub the stem to smell the resin profile. The tallest, earliest one isn't always always the best one.

Don't pollinate too late. If you are waiting for pollen to drop and the females flowers are getting big, it may become too late to pollinate. At about marble size flowers, pollinated female plants will become nearly fully seeded. The idea is to pollinate early and allow for most of the flower growth to be unpollinated.

If you pollinate and have extra seed laying around DONATE IT TO ICMAG to sell and raise funds to maintain this great site!

Make sure to label plants well in the garden at planting. At harvest clearly label and separate plants. Make sure you know which plant is which and you will be able to fine tune your breeding choices. If you didn't label them, you always have the smell test. Just be aware, your nose will turn brown!