So I read from Chimera that a good way to harvest pollen is to cut the male flowers down and put them in a vase with the flowers over a piece of paper in an area with no wind and that the pollen sacks will open slowly. My question now is does it matter when I chop down the male plants?
My plan is to grow out packs and chop males about 20-30 days into flower depending on how long the strain itself takes, take the males to a completely different geographical location than the grow and chop the male flowers, put them into a vase next to my freezer and collect the pollen, store in the freezer. Then the females can be harvested at maturity after cuts are taken, the keepers kept and lower branches pollinated for f2's on the second run, the lacklustre phenos turned into BHO and disposed of. Would this work? Does immature male pollen give a low seed yield? Or is there just less pollen?
Would be real rad to be able to get f2's off each pack without pollinating anything on the first run so I can choose my keeper phenos (or at least the ones I'd like represented in the 2nd gen) sans the seedy bud part
Thanks errybawdy
My plan is to grow out packs and chop males about 20-30 days into flower depending on how long the strain itself takes, take the males to a completely different geographical location than the grow and chop the male flowers, put them into a vase next to my freezer and collect the pollen, store in the freezer. Then the females can be harvested at maturity after cuts are taken, the keepers kept and lower branches pollinated for f2's on the second run, the lacklustre phenos turned into BHO and disposed of. Would this work? Does immature male pollen give a low seed yield? Or is there just less pollen?
Would be real rad to be able to get f2's off each pack without pollinating anything on the first run so I can choose my keeper phenos (or at least the ones I'd like represented in the 2nd gen) sans the seedy bud part
Thanks errybawdy