Collecting Pollen

[Aym777]

Courtesy Of Trillions Of Atoms

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This is the most cut throat easy way to collect pollen with out
contaminating a whole crop....making sure to seperate male plants
totally and wash clothes and body before re-entering the grow site
after removing males and collecting said pollen elsewhere away from the
growroom.
I seperate the males after choosing quality parentage....wait till the
bannanas start to spit open before they drop pollen.




Then i cut the tip off thats has the most mature banannas and either
stick it in a plastic bag like a small ziplock (leaving it open for the
stem to dry and so it wont catch condensation from the drying stem) or
similar container that will fit the branch nicely and isnt contained fully.




The next few days the stem will dry up (humidity determins how fast
they dry)and the banannas will open dropping pollen in the bag.




and your done!!

You can use rice to absorb the excess water to help keep the sperm
viable or silica gel packets That you get out of medicine containers.
rice works for me (uncooked of course), just throw it in the bag or use
a film canister (preferred as a cool, dark place is best for
storage).


Either like that or one other way thats a little more complicated:
Cut the branches off that are fixing to open,
Fold a piece of paper in half length ways then open it back up....
Lay the stalk with bannanas directly on the paper and wait a few days
with no fan around-

The stem will dry dropping pollen onto paper directly,
Then pick the stems up tapping gently to remove any remaining pollen
off the bannanas on said branch,
Then fold the piece of paper back in half with a little opening on one
end and tap the pollen off the paper while tilting the paper on one end
into a plastic bag or film canister with rice in it (the rice acts as a
decantir absorbing any remaing moisture as water kills pollen)


and
thats it for collecting the pollen.

Dip small paint brush(the fine detail kind) into bags and then dust the
lower branches (b-c popcorn buds) of the plants you want to keep
genetics from.

I use a loosely attached ziptie on the branch close to the main stalk,
colored ones if im doing multiple crosses- this way you can have as
many different crosses as you have branches.either keeping track or labeling it directly on containers

i save the main colas and seed the lower popcorn branhces and the rest
go to clones or are trimmed off. Any sucker branches with little light
get trimmed as well.


In 2-3 weeks the seeds will be mature....they will either fall out of
the pods or you can see the catylaxes starting to split.



after that time expires simply take an object and peel one side of a catylax where
yo see a seed maturing back.

If the seed is a light/darker tan colored with darker coloered stripes
and zigzags you know they are fully mature.
As long as no seeds you pull out are white, yellow, pale or hallow then
your doing good!


feed a full range of nutes being sure not to overfert. and allow at
least 3 full weeks for seeds to full form.


After collecting, let seeds dry (age) for at least a week or two before
planting, to be on the safe side. I usually plant after a few
weeks.


Simple as that!

[Dewave]

Thank you!

[Sticky_Icky3]

cooooll luv it man

[KittensOnPCP]

Why not, instead of cutting it off, put a ziplock bag around the stem instead and making sure that it's taped shut, then waiting until they open normally?