females and outside grow. The females are in week 2-3 flower.
Can I pollinate one branch on each female to get a few seeds and still get decent smoke bud off the rest of the plant?
Collect some of the male pollen in a small plastic bag, carefully tie the pollen filled bag over the selected female bud be sure it is double or triple tied off to prevent any pollen escaping, and you should be good to go.
I simply break off a peice of plant with some ripe nanners and rub them all over the white hairs in an area.
We use small tiny paint brushes to pollinate melons outside and that works well.
Just brush the male flower and then brush a female flower back and forth.
As said already, it doesn’t take much and you can get alot of seeds from just a few buds
I started doing it w extra clones after the fall harvest. I had too many years with instead of 1 branch, the whole plant got seeded. And the plant next to that, basically all seeded out. By bag taping pollen I brought from off site. Showered, changed clothes, yet still seeded my entire fall harvest. Never again, clones the day the crop comes in, and I still get more seeds than I could ever pop in a lifetime.
I read an article recently about hemp growing for fiber. They take an entire acre and only put 2 flowering males to seed it out. One on each side of the acre. 2 males per acre is the protocol. Yikes, all those girls getting pollen from just 2 boys…
All it takes is an incredibly small amounts of pollen to seed every grower in your neighborhood. Karma was the other reason I seed clones in the off season too.