using colloidal silver , how long for?

my fingers are crossed ,the rucksack is in the car, the essentials box is ready and i just don't need another black saturday which got quite close . My fire plan is basically to leave , but , oh dear , the garden...

 

testing some early seed from R4 , 24hrs in a cup with tapwater , now it's 30 hrs or so later on the plate. all on the left have popped including one side of the siamese seed . i might put that one in a pot..hmm
i cut them off the plant a week ago in the process of getting rid of bud rot which happened because the fan was off so as to not stir the "male" i was collecting pollen from , so i would hope to get a better germ rate from mature seed.

the R4 in the sex tent with a pair of indicas

 

I thought i'd do an indica with CS as well.
21 days since starting 12/12 and CS spray.

 

Day 25 of spraying the indica with CS.
Almost ripe. Might be the last spray , i don't want to wet the pollen.

 

I started to chop a few branches of the R4 today to make some room for the couple.
The seeds look to be ripe mostly and all the good seed iv'e looked at so far has the neatly formed volcano shaped base that some argue is the sign of a female seed , which of course they should, being feminised seed.
The indica girl that that got the CS treatment has just shown ripe bananas so the last spray was yesterday which is 27 days of spray. i will be doing a shake over the other clone from tomorrow because the balls are all stacked together and probably won't release their pollen well without help.
I hope the girl isn't a bit far ahead (some brown pistils already) but that's what happened..meh.

 

there has not been much evidence of pollen falling/flying when i have shaken the "male" plant over the girl so i have plucked out bananas from the tightly packed heads and collected them .
First they go into a tea strainer and get stirred around so the pollen falls through onto a piece of alfoil then into a container and out to the sex tent where i painted it onto the pistils.
All the leftover pods and bananas i put in a bottle with a bunch of silicia gel packs and i will give them a stir tomorrow.
you can see how quickly the pods with their bananas get stale .
The ones that are brown almost feel soggy and need to be got rid of from the bananas that are to be dried.

 

I have ripped off with tweezers many of the leaves around the heads of the 'boy' to make getting pollen easier , it is just the bananas i want .
It really helps to see what is going on too and the pollen will shake out more easily .
you can see how there are bananas that are stale that haven't been able to pop their pollen.
The happy couple.