I cant remember if I asked this bfore but I have 4 plants that were sprayed for 6 days in veg and then flipped to 11/13 for flower and now on day 10 of flower there are lots of male sacs showing. Do I continue to spray silver or stop now that it has changed over?
Thanks RAP
You can stop spraying once the male flowers start showing up, they’ll continue to develop without further spraying.
Just ordered mine today, delivery Friday. I’m gonna spray an NL auto and move it to the garage. I may even move a diesel with it. Try some nl/diesel cross.
Once they show the sacks your good to go take the fan off them before they open up or get ready to clean and wipe down a whole room
@Hellraiser @ThcinKC I got my CS today. How many times a day do I spray? The RQS guide says 3x a day for 10-21 days. I can just spray the top and let the pollen drop on the lower buds right?
Yep, 3 times a day for 2-3 weeks or until you have obvious male flowers.
I sprayed 1 time a day 6 days in veg and 10 days in flower and have all 4 plants with sacs. I did spray complete plant.
Yall got me wanting to make some trannies now lol
Slap on the snap on strap on lol
That’s the one I would buy if I were to. I’m staying on the reg seed band wagon for a bit
I always said “I will never use silver and make feminized seeds”. But now I see a need for them. I love to breed top of the line genetics when they can be found and I love to pheno hunt. But when I find one I really like like the Acid Rain pheno I made that is super frosty and has a killer high, I want to make some feminized seed off of it that will all be very similar with no guessing if I have a female or not.
I am just learning the feminizing technique and in the future will only feminize the “special” plants I find. I have a few really nice F1’s I made right now and when the F2’s are ready then the real fun will begin. I am keeping clones and pollen available to back cross the “special” F2 phenos we find and then maybe it will really be time to use the feminized approach.
I appreciate fem seeds for small tent growers who dont wanna play sifting games. I would do it strictly to reach that customer base. Not ruderelis though lol go somewhere else for those
Cant wait for the F2 hunt
The first 4 plants, 2 NL#5/Haze F6 adn 2 Matanuska Thunders, look like they should drop pollen any time now. Later I an going to take a pic of each clone, 1 sprayed and its mate not sprayed. It is pretty amazing.
Here is the Matanuska Thunder sprayed with coloidal silver
And same Matanush Thunder plant not sprayed
And The NL#5/Haze sprayed
And same NL#5/Haze plant not sprayed
I took tweezers and grabbed about 20 pods this morning to see how it would go. I never pulled just pods before. I was pleased with the results but will probably continue to collect from plant when it starts dropping heavily. I am going to pull Matanuska #1 from the tent later and pollinate more of the branch I dusted yesterday.
Collecting pollen from these is a bit different from collecting from a true male. I am finding that the pods are so packed and tightly formed in the plant it is difficult to collect dropping pollen. I have had luck picking flowers and tapping on the glass to get pollen out and by manipulating with my fingers over glass but then a lot of not ready flowers are also falling off.
I will definitely collect enough pollen eventually but it sure is a lot more time consuming.
New to this topic, how mature does the plant need to be in order to harvest the pollen?
After flowering times are started you can usually see flowers in a week or so. Most of my plants will show flower(sex) at around 4 weeks. Once the males start to show pods I usually can collect pollen in 2-3 weeks tops. All variieties can differ by +/- a few days.
If you have a seedling you can flip to flower after a week or so if you want. However the size will be smaller the earlier you flip. For these with silver spray I knew they were females. Once I knew I started spraying with silver for a week in veg and then after flipping I sprayed for 2 weeks. I saw pods after a week in flower and am collecting pollen now at 3 weeks after flip.
